Lead Change Blog

JUNE 14, 2016

A leader is someone who provides vision and inspires everyone around him or her to focus on the vision and drive toward achieving their goal. In the global economy, each company is constantly adjusting its strategies to enable it to stay ahead of its competition.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

There is a temptation to confuse a vision or policy with a strategy, but they are not the same thing. Strategy is about the “how.” A policy may have an implementation strategy behind it. Policies address the “what.” They’re prescriptions for the way things might operate in an ideal world.

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Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

The cumulative effects of misalignment are a significant constraint on the ability of an organization to execute its strategy. In every day processes, as the organization changes, the "current" approach to doing things becomes less aligned with the goals of the company.

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Six Disciplines

MARCH 21, 2011

The cumulative effects of misalignment are a significant constraint on the ability of an organization to execute its strategy. In every day processes, as the organization changes, the "current" approach to doing things becomes less aligned with the goals of the company. It's what we describe in detail in Discipline III.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

The goal is to make potential customers believe that “if you are not a Prime member, you are being irresponsible.” Amazon will likely continue adding Prime benefits to the mix, potentially including the holy grail of entertainment: live sports. ” Walmart can’t compete with this value proposition, at least not yet.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 24, 2017

This is a transparent way to reiterate the organization’s purpose, its strategy, and culture. That’s why Culture is the strategy for so many success stories such as Google and Amazon. The goal isn’t more people; it’s less. Human capital is the source from which competitive advantage flows or falls. Prioritize project lists.

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CO2

APRIL 30, 2013

In both of the cases I’ve outlined here, the organization’s culture usually dictates its strategy. When it doesn’t (when strategy isn’t shaped by culture), customers and employees tend to get thrown by the bull. So, what is your culture? He’s right.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2015

Has your company inadvertently set a goal with just a 1-in-20 chance of success? Setting overly conservative goals is hardly an alternative, however; they can leave money on the table, leave people unmotivated, and lead to accusations of sandbagging. Many budgets and strategic plans include financial performance goals of some sort.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 1, 2021

Different strategies are applied every day after some crucial changes only to get a higher rank than the competitor in the online marketplace. Those working on their website for a very long period are well known for the SEO and its strategies, due to which they are ranking higher consistently, but newcomers face the issue.

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Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

By management system, they're referring to the integrated set of processes and tools that a company uses to develop its strategy, translate it into operational actions, and monitor and improve the effectiveness of both. Set Goals That Lead ). By creating a closed-loop management system, companies can avoid such shortfalls.

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Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

By management system, they're referring to the integrated set of processes and tools that a company uses to develop its strategy, translate it into operational actions, and monitor and improve the effectiveness of both. Set Goals That Lead ). By creating a closed-loop management system, companies can avoid such shortfalls.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 7, 2015

While addressing the sacred cow, the company failed miserably to articulate its strategy and gain support for its direction. Get your team behind a few tangible goals. Common goals make for an aligned team. Confusion reigned. There appeared to be a thrash-about in several simultaneous directions. Heck, over-communicate.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 26, 2019

If the overall experience doesn’t please and excite the customer, a company is hard-pressed to outsize its strategy. I have sat through many strategy meetings listening to bright leaders dream up bold plans without vetting their financial feasibility. Other companies turn strategy into a big annual leadership retreat.

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The Empowered Buisness

JANUARY 2, 2014

As a company, you cannot sustain growth, profitability and your competitive edge without harmony and alignment between business strategy and culture. So many companies fall short in their goals because they overemphasize strategy with little/no attention to the cultural aspects that drive it.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. The second type, known as adaptive performance , is how effectively your organization diverges from its strategy. military says, volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity , where technology and strategy changes rapidly. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

It is striking how much confusion there is between strategy, implementation, and execution. Is “strategy” a matter of making choices about where we want to go, where we play and how we win, of setting goals and actions, about how we create and capture economic value over time? ” I agree.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

Strategy and goal setting. These activities do two things, culture-wise: rally people around similar goals while also providing guidance on outcomes employees are expected to produce. How are behaviors assessed? How often are they reviewed?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Typical systems are fragmented between disciplines like HR (which focuses on the internal, “permanent” workforce) and Procurement (which focuses on the external, “contingent” workforce), each with different and competing goals. Create one integrated workforce strategy. Why are typical work systems uncoordinated?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Verizon would not have been able to so quickly and successfully change its strategy without being willing to question and overhaul traditional organizational structures. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. In fact, successful leaders sometimes wait to announce a strategy until it’s well under way. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

But in truth businesses rarely focus on only profitability; most strive to satisfy various stakeholders and meet the goals of balanced scorecards. The challenge for executives is, of course, to manage their conflicting goals, or so-called trade-offs. First: Market share is a dangerous key performance indicator (KPI).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Everyone thinks they have a digital strategy these days. But while your company may have a business or IT strategy that incorporates digital technology, an IT strategy does not equal a digital strategy. Because most IT strategies treat technology in isolation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

The board’s principal concern, it seemed, was less to guarantee good governance of VW than to reconcile the goals of key stakeholders and local officials. Volkswagen will have to abandon its strategy of world domination and the hubristic “Das Auto” branding approach we see in the ads.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

We have ambitious goals that we’ve set until 2020,” says Joseph Godsey, Global Head of Digital Brand Commerce at Adidas. That digital focus helped Adidas reshape its strategy for today’s mobile, more empowered consumer. At Adidas, it all starts with digital. “Digital is one of our core strategic priorities.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

What if," I asked, "the day after a meeting, the team discovered its strategy needed a wholesale revision?" The goal is to get enough data so that you are 70 percent confident in your decision, and then trust your instincts. A scarcity mentality. Nothing focuses the mind like a dwindling bank account.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

He talked with HBR about why a company’s culture is more important than its strategy — and some of the innovative tactics that CEOs have used to help create a high-performing culture. When CEOs hold town hall meetings to talk about overarching goals, some people reflexively roll their eyes. Excerpts: Why did you focus on culture?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

In my research on how experienced managers and professionals step up to bigger leadership roles, I have observed both the value and the difficulty of returning to our youthful, fake-it-till-you-learn-it strategies. It helps us navigate choices and work toward our goals.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2012

Our goal was to rejuvenate a dying 40-year-old brand so it would appeal to a new generation of Indian children, many being raised on a diet of American cartoon shows and films. With the backing of an investor, I acquired Amar Chitra Katha, the iconic Indian publisher of children's books and comics.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Activist investors have a simple goal: increase the value of their investment. But first they need to get management of a company to change the existing strategy. At a minimum, as is happening to GE now, it forces a company to go through a review of its strategy. (At They often kill any long-term strategic initiatives.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

An enterprise software company confronted this issue after it shifted its strategy to focus on cross-selling in larger, Tier 1 and 2 accounts — those with the most potential spending across the company’s product portfolio. Identifying What Top Performers Do Differently.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The smattering of customers who return and pay full price should be considered "gravy," not the primary goal of the promotion. Will this revised pitch/strategy return Groupon to its heady days of being the "fastest growing company ever" ? Does Groupon have the fortitude to change its strategy?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

The finding is a correlation but points to a theory of causation: we believe these companies are far more adept at identifying and mitigating the risks that could undermine their achievement of business goals. At the same time, they are effectively containing financial reporting and compliance risks. What does maturity look like in practice?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In its strategy to help employees with disabilities build long-term careers, Unilever partnered with Connecticut’s Department of Rehabilitation Services and Southeastern Employment Services to launch a training and placement program. Offer leadership development opportunities to employees with disabilities.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. Finally, we urge companies not to lose sight of an essential goal of good organizational design: constructive conflict.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2013

The framework differs from standard financial reporting in a number of ways: It provides guidance on reporting that goes beyond simply conveying past performance in order to help investors understand how value is created (or destroyed) in the company, given its business model and its strategies, risks and opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

As United Rentals, the largest equipment rentals company, shifted its strategy to focus more on national customer accounts, it faced a huge forgetting challenge; branch managers needed to forget the fiefdom mentality. .” Create win-win incentives. Incentives are a powerful lever to convince people they need to forget the old ways.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Before the hospital brought in their architect, the care team devised its strategy and process for providing a new care model to mothers and their premature infants. Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden wanted to change their protocol for caring for prematurely born infants in the neonatal ICU.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

The blind spot in its strategy and the root cause of its collapse, was its failure to see how progress in the other components of its ecosystem would eliminate the value of the end goal.

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