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? The problem rests however in how this pre-occupation with being acknowledged as a “leader” by your peers is perceived by your employees.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This was the situation the leaders of Southern New England Telephone Company (SNET) faced in 1994 when Connecticut deregulated the local market. It involved restructuring into wholesale and retail operations and providing an array of new retail services. .

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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. To make this happen, you must be well-equipped with the tools and know-how to achieve organizational goals. How will you achieve that goal?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

Mark’s boss was leading meetings to discuss restructuring the research business, and hadn’t been including Mark on the invites. In an effort to not step on toes, he had been deferring to his boss on the restructuring — but his passive approach was undermining him. How to Design an Agenda for an Effective Meeting.

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 19, 2014

Technical Writing - There is a wide variety of sub-specializations which lean more toward engineering, how-to’s, or investigations. Bioinformatics - Seriously, perfect for young people who know how to use computers and love looking at a screen all day. Most get a BA, but people who just have AAs that work in the field.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

We, as leaders, still understand little of how to retain essential high performers in turbulent times. We, as leaders, still understand little of how to retain essential high performers in turbulent times. Restructuring has led to fewer layers of management, also to fewer opportunities for promotion. Five Trends .

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

And the same applies to the affected workers: The tight labor market means there are opportunities for those who go through retraining. Another issue involves reallocating resources in the face of fundamental market shifts. When and how are the best ways to do it? Then there is the question of how to reallocate assets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2018

In a tight talent market, it’s tempting for organizations to rely even more heavily on employee referrals to fill open positions, but a new study from PayScale shows that doing so could lead to pay inequities and a less-diverse workforce. Restructure referral bonus programs to reward diverse referrals. Martin Harvey/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Enrollment in learning programs has surged over the last few years to generate a global executive education market of over $70 billion a year. Managers learn how to articulate a business opportunity in ways that energize team members. And they learn how to make it safe to fail in small, fast ways to discover the best solutions.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy. This book helps you identify your firm’s distinctive blend of strategic direction and differentiated capabilities that give you the ‘right to win’ in your chosen markets. PL and CM: Turbulent markets demand focus and discipline.

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LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2014

You’re really spreading this sort of counterintuitive message about how to win in this kind of war for talent. First, how to do retainment, how to do recruitment in ways that are much more productive, and also to understand that sometimes losses actually come with a lot of benefits.

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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

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. Then reality-check that with the market. Be careful about who you tell you're on the job market. What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2015

Here’s how to craft your request. Emily Bayliss*, vice president of operations for a pharmaceutical market intelligence firm in New Jersey, had repeatedly assumed greater responsibilities and oversight of various groups for more than a decade. Gather evidence. Preparation is critical.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

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. billion in revenues.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

“The old adage that it’s not about you is nonsense,” says John Lees, the UK-based career strategist and the author of How to Get a Job You Love. Don’t make any big decisions in those first few days and don’t rush into the job market the day after you’ve received the news. We can manage without you.’

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

A constant theme during meetings over the last three years has been how globalisation and the economic crisis have forced organizations to rethink their strategies and change they way they operate. Worse, organizations rarely show people how to operate in a new structure, which can also undermine effectiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

We believe that there is no longer any doubt about how to increase the value of care. Although an overlay is less disruptive than restructuring the organization of care, it adds cost and essentially treats the symptom of faulty organization rather than the cause. The question is whether providers can make the necessary changes.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

He is supporting a bottom-up initiative, RedesignGreece , to help this change process by way of a set of prizes for Greek civil servants with innovative ideas on how to change the administration for the better. Yet they hesitate to restructure, hoping that rolling debt over will allow them to restrict their write-offs.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

Gathering Type 2 feedback lets you take a fundamental look at whether your repeatable model remains competitive and whether there are discontinuities in the market that could undermine it. 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

OCTOBER 23, 2015

How can you make the situation easier for yourself and your colleagues? How do you stay positive? And how do you know when it’s time to move on? ” Reactions are typically varied, says Gretchen Spreitzer, a professor at Michigan’s Ross School of Business and coauthor of How to be a Positive Leader.

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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. That's correct so far as it goes —but it doesn't go nearly far enough.

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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. A few years ago, I worked with a college educator who explained to me — in a logical (and dull) narrative devoid of conflict — how he had radically restructured his school’s curriculum.

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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. How should P&G adapt to a shrinking middle class in the US? Why is P&G making this move, now?

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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. A leader at one of the organizations was exceptionally good at communicating how individual employees would benefit from the merger. Alan Copson/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

labor market over the past 30 years. That is, even while most measures of local labor-market strength had converged back to pre-recession levels, differences in advertised skill demands remain. These patterns are consistent with a restructuring of labor demand towards these skills. Why might that have happened?

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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. They didn’t want this book – they wanted a tactical book on sales and marketing. Defy Gravity is every person’s guide to challenging their status quo.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

In addition to the usual metrics — return on investment, growth in market share, increases in shareholder value — Johansson uses what he calls the "kitchen table test": At breakfast with his family on Saturday mornings, he asks himself, How easy is it to explain what I have accomplished this week and the decisions I have made?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

But Telsa is starting from the top of a market, selling high-end vehicles at high prices. To scale, Tesla will eventually have to grow down market but there are real impediments to doing so. There are three internal barriers to “growing down the market” that are akin to sailing against the wind.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

test her fledgling wings, researching how to prepare for the several decades still ahead. Or they can come from without, the land of restructurings and layoffs, divorce or other major life shifts. Essentially, you are market-testing your new plan, and figuring out where you are most needed and appreciated.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

How are those organizations better because of you? How to Get the Most Out of an Informational Interview. You’ll show how you’d improve their organizations, based on what you’ve done in the past. Let’s look at how to do this by analyzing the resume and LinkedIn profile of a startup marketing executive.

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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

JULY 26, 2011

Many love to boast when their revenues soar, or publicize the strategic restructuring of their organizational response committees (whatever that means). That has direct and indirect effects on the economy, which is made all the worse by rising fears of a double-dip recession and angst over the state of global markets.

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

A successful leadership transition depends on substantial cognitive restructuring. Research has revealed that successful leaders are skilled at “sustaining the vision” of their companies by modeling optimism about their goals and flexibility about how to reach them.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Most CEOs and corporate board members would agree that the theories and beliefs listed below drive their decision-making on how best to meet the challenges they face: The focus of the CEO and the board should be on maximizing shareholder value. The stock market is short-term-oriented. It is not for the profits. The profits follow." (By

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

AUGUST 20, 2012

Matrix organizations are becoming more common as organizations grow larger, become more complex, and/or enter global markets. However, the disadvantages will quickly outweigh the advantages if leaders think this is simply a matter of restructuring or drawing dotted lines on an organizational chart.

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