Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 24, 2017

We were both managers of large sales teams, worked for the same overly demanding boss, and had to manage in a period of never-ending restructuring and downsizing. Here’s how to avoid those barriers: Let go – You can’t do everything and your team won’t learn if you don’t delegate and share decision making as much as possible.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JUNE 21, 2021

The truth is that many change-management efforts fail simply because the vital human component is underappreciated, when in fact it is at the heart of change. The enemy is poor management of change.” The enemy is poor management of change. As Dr. Rodger Dean Duncan says, “Change is not the enemy. Change is not the enemy.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Signs of a Lemming Leader: Use of jargon: Do you use the terms restructuring, high reliability, six sigma, just culture, strategic sourcing, population health, or employee engagement in your organization? If you are trying to make your operation more efficient, then say so. “To The trappings: Look in your driveway.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Our Universal Model of Leadership helps explain how extraordinary leadership develops and how to accelerate its development. Consciousness is the Internal Operating System (IOS) of performance. With each developmental evolution, the old operating system (the way we know ourselves and our reality) is being deconstructed.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 21, 2021

Any business leader who wants to succeed in a changing economy must become an expert at talent mobility – how to define it, support their workers and leverage it for strategic advantage.” What are a few of these trends and how are they already showing up? How should organizations restructure and change in light of it?

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 13, 2014

Future leaders will have to learn how to manage global production, marketing, and sales teams to achieve competitive advantage. Many present leaders still view technological savvy as important for staff people and operations, but not for them. Know how to make and manage investments in new technology.

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LDRLB

JUNE 23, 2010

Theory of Constraints (TOC) is an overall management philosophy introduced by Dr. Eliyahu M. The theory contends that any manageable system is limited in achieving more of its goal by a very small number of constraints and that there is always at least one constraint. Decide how to exploit the constraint. Elevate the constraint.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 14, 2021

“The biggest leadership challenge is to create the future while managing the present across the entire organization.” How do companies best shift in order to thrive in the midst of the new demands? There needs to be a framework and model that leaders can follow, an operating model, so to speak.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The new work contract – where employees take responsibility for their own careers and corporations provide them with career-enhancing but impermanent opportunities – can be as difficult for organizations to manage as it is for individuals. We must manage our human assets with the same rigor we devote to our financial assets.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Be aware, however, that constant re-engineering, reorganization, and restructuring in pursuit of efficiency (or the latest management fad) has a questionable effect at best. An acclaimed speaker and executive coach, he advises Fortune 1000 senior leaders on how to create cultures that drive superior operating results.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

They learned and practiced how to communicate effectively and resolve conflicts, build teams to succeed, lead meetings that didn’t waste time, lead change that would stick, walk the talk with our organizational values, and finally how to engage and manage our talent. High quality service was not a value before we started.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 9, 2015

Deming’s 14 points for management have been put into various specific contexts by people over the years. Restructure training. Provide operational definitions of all jobs. Supervision belongs to the system and is the responsibility of the management. Improve supervision.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

However when this happens it often creates an awkward and uncomfortable set of dynamics, and there's no blueprint for how to manage them. As members of the senior leadership team, these three managers worked well together on business issues although they were not personal friends.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Capital-intensive factories have a high-fixed-cost, low-variable-cost operating model. Every day GM operates such factories, it expends more resources that could be redeployed elsewhere. Then there is the question of how to reallocate assets. Given the shift in immediate U.S. That is what GM is trying to do.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

As well as helping me understand how hard it is to run an organization, they show me how they are managing to adapt — or not — to changing organizational structures. Worse, organizations rarely show people how to operate in a new structure, which can also undermine effectiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Take this brief assessment for feedback on how to improve strategic alignment in eight key areas. They struggle to manage tensions between units and to realize value across them. Before rewiring operations, leaders: wrestle with the nuances of the strategy. But after six months the plan starts to falter. Execution Strategy'

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2015

The best managers know when it’s time to increase your pay for a job well done. How do you prepare for it? And how can you make it easier for your manager to say yes? It can be difficult to approach your manager for a raise. It can be difficult to approach your manager for a raise. Gather evidence.

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How To Case Study Restructuring Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2016

As more people move to urban areas, cities face ever more economic and environmental challenges, including resource constraints, economic restructuring, aging populations, and pressures on public finances. The United States alone is home to more than 5 million large commercial buildings, including warehouses, offices, and schools.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy. To demonstrate it, we’ve examined a number of industries and mapped the level of capabilities coherence in the portfolio of each of the major players against their operating margins over the past five years. by Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi.

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2014

How companies can use time effectively is just one piece of a larger and ultimately more important puzzle: how to increase the productivity of their people. But how often does that work? That’s where managing your scarcest resource comes in.). Managing people Productivity' Our research quantifies what’s at stake.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

That’s the management goal that Tony Hseih, founder of e-commerce giant Zappos, aims to achieve by the end of 2014. Think of it as management operating system 3.0. Management consultant Brian Robertson took that idea and founded HolacracyOne, a firm dedicated to helping companies (including Zappos) achieve this corporate ideal.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2011

Many love to boast when their revenues soar, or publicize the strategic restructuring of their organizational response committees (whatever that means). But often missing from a firm's communications is something absolutely fundamental to its operations: its values. Establish core values across the company, not just within management.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

How to find good quality employees, how to hang onto them, and how to develop them into better employees — these are the questions managers across the world constantly wrestle with. Clearly, the jobs issue is not going to go away unless US companies figure out how to hire, and train, the talent they need.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

When Sir Christopher Gent headed Vodafone in the 1990s, for example, he brought his management team and board together every year to ask what business the company was in. They sponsor one-off presentations of "megatrends" or "potential discontinuities" but rarely discuss how to adapt their business model to the future.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

In this excerpt from their new book, Strategy That Works , Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi explain why distinctive capabilities are vital to success, and address a fundamental question that many companies overlook: How to bring these capabilities to scale, so that every part of the enterprise can call on them.

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Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

A few years ago Dave Ulrich, a management thought leader from the University of Michigan, made a comment I found both insightful and profound: “ Every leader needs to have a model of organization design.” An effective organization design model guides a manager in answering five fundamental questions in a thoughtful and well-integrated way.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 8, 2013

A recent global workforce study by Towers Watson suggests that although traditional employee engagement strategies help foster high performance, companies must now also consider how to sustain higher levels of employee engagement over time to avoid a diminishing impact. Of course, it required disciplined communication. Connect with them.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

This month he’s publishing his second book based on the interviews: “Quick and Nimble: Lessons from Leading CEOs on How to Create a Culture of Innovation.” A lot of managers just let culture happen — it becomes the sum of the personalities, good and bad, that work in an organization. As human beings, we like to operate in small tribes.

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CEO FAQ Restructuring Performance Review 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Although it is too early to tell if Tunisia and Egypt will prove the exceptions rather than the rule when it comes to dramatic political transitions in the Middle East, multinationals operating in the region have already faced significant losses.

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Strategy Politics Short-term Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Stock-based incentive compensation aligns the self-interest of management with shareholders, and a performance-based pay system increases employee motivation. In my experience, these beliefs have led managers and boards to take actions that have had unintended, destructive consequences. I disagree.

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CEO Short-term Long-term Restructuring 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Even operational efficiency was unaffected. What made the difference between these two experiences was that the project's leader, Stein Ove Fenne, managing director at Tupperware Nordic A/S, focused on building emotional capital in driving the initiative. How to Calculate the Value of a Like. More >>.

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Media Consultative Restructuring Execution 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Robotics is a good example: It’s obvious that it can increase productivity, but it takes some know-how to put robots to work. Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. The Future of Operations.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Citing its outcomes performance as a mandate for change, Fraser set about a complete restructuring of the team: pediatric cardiac surgeons and cardiologists started collaborating more closely, dedicated pediatric cardiac surgery operating rooms and ICU space was created, and a systematic outcomes tracking program was put in place.

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Health Care Fraser Price Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

But it hasn''t yet tackled its operational challenges, the root causes of the country''s crisis. The fact is that Greece is monstrously inefficient as a manager of public services. Change management is the current imperative for Greece. And the majority of Greeks, as polls showed, broadly supported this drastic move.

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Politics Restructuring Crisis McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

P&G is in the midst of a major restructuring, and has laid off thousands of people. P&G''s board has been under a great deal of pressure from an activist investor who has made his views on the pace of the restructuring clear and vocal. Why is P&G making this move, now? Why switch horses midstream?

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