In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

This is a short-term aggravation, and though it may thrash earnings for the quarter or the year, it is not a restructuring of the marketplace. Sure, it isn’t business as usual, and yes, every CEO has to make some moves to shore up sales and profits. But, these blips have a way of separating leaders from followers.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

It can be found throughout various industries, from marketing to law to finance. These workplace cultures are most commonly associated with start-ups and small businesses. But, as the number of workplaces that follow this model increases, so does the need to know what makes them tick. Men At Work Clubs And Workspace.

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Whether it be a global pandemic, a company restructuring or a merger, a leadership strategy is crucial if you want to manage shifts and times of uncertainty. This leadership strategy encourages collaboration and ultimately sets a team up for long-term success. Finally, your values reflect what your company believes in.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

We had our own boom and bust cycle of people seeking rooms for the event, along with constant speculation about the number of people involved, and how the city’s transportation and services would hold up. Washingtonians are not the only ones in transition; companies are reorganizing, restructuring, and adjusting their plans for 2009.

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Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

He had inherited a thriving soft drink bottling business from his father, and by marketing it to South America he grew the company significantly. He introduced me to a company that was opening up a new market in Atlanta. I attributed this to growing up in a family where everything was given to him.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 17, 2024

They’d slipped and face-planted into all five of the following failure factors I’ve noted over decades of research, writing, and consulting work. ” If You Don’t Change Where You’re Headed, You’ll End up There Some change and improvement efforts have been hugely successful.

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LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2014

David: When you are not riding in private jets or being picked up from the airport via limo, sorry, Orly and I follow each other on Facebook and thus, she’s got a way cooler book tour than I do. How are some of the best companies restructuring themselves to make use of this interesting finding?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

A recent report by the consultancy BCG documented a general decline in sales among consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies in the United States during 2017, with mid-sized and large companies losing market share and small companies increasing theirs. Consultancy Catalina also revealed that 90 of the 100 top brands had all lost market share.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

He asked one former major investor for a reaction to the company’s prediction (accompanying poor quarterly results): “that the [current] market contraction will bottom out soon and our profits will improve.” Nikon could then follow up by asking what would persuade the investor to repurchase.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2017

Success in a sales force requires having strong talent up and down the organization. He had extensive market knowledge and a stellar track record. Weak leaders at a technology company made a decision to restructure the sales organization using a model from their own past that did not match the current situation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The profits follow." They said that it might be possible to go to the FDA, add warnings to the label, and keep Vioxx on the market, but they believed that the most responsible course of action in the interests of the patient was to voluntarily withdraw the drug. We had done a restructuring in 2001 with a significant number of layoffs.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. Simplifying a bit, the chief explanations were these: First, that GE benefited from scale and dominant market positions in industrial businesses. Private equity and the new capital markets.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

The primary focus was on fixing the acquired firm through financial restructuring, dramatic cost cutting, and strategic slashing. In phase two (buy and hold), PE equity investors bought the fixer upper and repaired it, but then rented it and ended up loosely managing the house before selling it. Large private equity firms (e.g.,

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LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

labor market over the past 30 years. Until recently, economists thought of this trend as a gradual phenomenon that didn’t depend much on the ups and downs of the economy. That is, even while most measures of local labor-market strength had converged back to pre-recession levels, differences in advertised skill demands remain.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Here are some principles that guide my own work, gleaned from market research, social science, and storytelling best practices. Let the phrase “say more about that” weave its magic and then follow that thread as far as it goes. Branding Marketing Organizational culture' What would the folklorist’s credo include?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Rebel Brown : I’ve been a consultant for over 20 years now, focused on helping international clients in areas of business and market strategy, positioning and market launches. My clients range from early stage start-ups to corporate turnarounds to small businesses. Once we challenge our beliefs and knowns –the sky is the limit.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the former, we examined the presence and market penetration of disruptor companies; we also considered incumbents’ financial performance. Multinational beer companies have responded by investing in or acquiring large craft brewers such as Lagunitas, Craft Brew Alliance, and Goose Island to gain an immediate foothold in the market.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

Or they can come from without, the land of restructurings and layoffs, divorce or other major life shifts. My friend Mary had yearned for creative outlets much of her life but had never considered herself artistic until she took up writing and painting in her sixties. They are the prequel to re-creation. Letting the outside in.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Restructurings may be an inevitable part of organizational life but living through them—even when you’re one of the lucky ones still standing—is challenging and stressful. ” Then follow up with actions that demonstrate your support. “Keep the periscope up,” says Spreitzer.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

From leadership transitions and restructurings, to mergers and acquisitions, to regulatory changes, there seems to be constant unrest in the workforce. When this occurs, it’s important to let employees know you are committed to communicating openly and transparently, and will follow-up as soon as you know more.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

This initial lack of commercial players and interests was critical — it allowed the formation of a network architecture that shared resources in a way that would not have occurred in a market-driven system. The “killer app” for the early internet was email; it’s what drove adoption and strengthened the network.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Consequently, although companies should cut costs now, they should be on the lookout for the quick rebound that is likely to follow. It reached a peak on June 12 and then proceeded to lose over 40% of its value by the end of August despite efforts by the Chinese government to prop up the market. Lessons from the Past.

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Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

The Spanish Prime Minister has become preoccupied with creating market confidence, as was the Irish Prime Minister in the run up to the EU/IMF bailout. And yet in the run up to the collapse in 2007, the combined asset footprint of the three main Irish banks was around 400 percent of GDP. Clearly we are in phase three now.

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Real Estate Banking Construction Politics 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

When the slowing economy caused sales to drop slightly the following year, the company started "gasping for cash," as Heffington put it. Heffington, working with Steve Curnutte, a restructuring advisor, realized that as new orders poured in, it became difficult to establish the true cost of fulfilling them.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Up until the 1980s, Japan had boasted of its “100-million population, all middle-class society.” There were three major reasons for the profound change in Japan’s economic and social makeup: During the “lost two decades” starting in 1990 , Japan’s economy either shrank, or inched up by just 1% or 2%.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. It’s no wonder, then, that young people are anxious about their ability to compete in the job market.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The stock market is short-term-oriented. The profits follow." (By The market favorably receives projects with long-term payoffs, particularly those in research and development. The conventional course of action would have been to cut investments in research and restructure. It is not for the profits.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

In the end, whatever your industry and whatever your enterprise’s size, scaling up your distinctive capabilities is one of the most difficult and yet essential things you can do. We thought that creative, capability-rich companies would have paid a lot of attention to the way they organized and the value that restructuring gave them.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

Overall we collected data on 174 big decisions, such as those relating to acquisitions, major product launches, new foreign market entries, and complex corporate restructurings. Finally, we conducted a follow-up survey of employees at the lower levels of these organizations to see how their anxiety levels compared to top executives.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

You’re an executive of a clothing retailer and your marketing team detects a new trend that you’re well-positioned to feed. In industry after industry, companies set themselves up for regrets and, sometimes, money-wasting conflicts when they form relationships with other businesses such as suppliers and dealers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Much of the early work focused on the adoption rate of new technologies following an S-curve, with some users going early, a lot in the middle, and some following late. Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. The literature on this subject is enormous.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Most corporations generate 80% to 90% of their profits from fewer than 20% of the brands they sell and many promising start-ups can fail to generate a profit for several years. In 1921, two brothers started the company to serve the ham radio market. Profitability isn’t a useful metric.

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Brand Merchandising Retail Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

followed by, "But why?". Restructure, reorganize, slash and burn. To get serious about igniting its exports, America's going to have to elevate the numerator, setting incentives for a new generation of products, services, markets, industries that produce stuff that's envied, treasured, and adored by people across the globe.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Ram’s phone rang just as they walked through the door, and he held up the screen to show Shayam the caller name: Hari Shukla. But then Hari walked into his office and said he was leaving for “personal reasons,” only to turn up at a larger competitor: The Sustainable Impact Group. “I know. .”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Having a good boss — someone who stands up for you, who buffers you from interoffice politics, and who competently represents your team to the rest of the company — is a wonderful thing. For one, people change jobs more than they used to, which means you can’t predict where your boss is going to end up.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

The job market may be bleak, but that doesn't mean you're stuck. a Boston-based firm offering career coaching and management services, says the job market is more active than most people think. Just follow these principles: Do your homework. Then reality-check that with the market. What the Experts Say.

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