Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Our Universal Model of Leadership helps explain how extraordinary leadership develops and how to accelerate its development. Our Universal Model includes five stages of progressive leadership development: Egocentric, Reactive, Creative, Integral, and Unitive. Consciousness is the Internal Operating System (IOS) of performance.

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HR Digest

MAY 23, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic has been a great wake-up call for companies and their ability to manage change in the workplace. Organizational change management is about bringing changes in a company’s management style by first identifying problems (or potential ones) and then implementing suitable changes.

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Management How To Retail Uncertainty 94

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 23, 2022

A common complaint in the healthcare industry in recent years is that it has too many managers, and that these managers not only take money away from frontline care but also lack the medical expertise and experience to truly understand things. Managerial expertise. New skills. Making it happen.

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Skills Supply Chain Restructuring Training 69

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

It involved restructuring into wholesale and retail operations and providing an array of new retail services. . If they had involved wide representation of management and front-line workers during the earlier planning process, their people would have joined them on the journey from the beginning. It’s a balancing act.

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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? Your bookshelf: Are they all leadership books? If you are trying to make your operation more efficient, then say so. “To

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Six Sigma Storytelling Peer Review Open-book 209

The Practical Leader

MARCH 2, 2022

Recently I was asked to facilitate an executive retreat for the leadership team of a professional services firm. Assessment and feedback from the leadership team and managers and staff showed vast differences. The other solitude – managers and staff – rated how the leaders lived each core value at 1s and 2s.

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 14, 2023

This too shall pass” From Bolt-On Programs to Built-In Culture Change Hundreds of studies over the decades have shown that 50 – 70 percent of improving customer service levels, restructuring, mergers/acquisitions, introducing new technologies, performance management systems, leadership training, and the like fail.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

As downsizing, restructuring and delayering took hold in the late 1980’s, old ladders became largely inaccessible. Someone who wants to manage others can still get there. Managing others is not for everyone. Careers used to be predictable. There were paths and ladders. The hierarchy worked – for some. Some rungs disappeared.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2021

It can be used to identify the risks that workers face today, which should be acknowledged and recognized by both HR and management. Artificial intelligence is considered today to be the most creative and promising field for workforce management. Performance Management. People Analytics.

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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. Get out of the weeds – Operate at your level – set a vision, be strategic, understand and articulate the big picture.

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Development Restructuring Micromanagement Learning-by-Doing 150

In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. To rise from the ashes, our young management team made several tough sacrifices to transform a multi-product, multi-brand operation from generalist to specialist. Specialists beat generalists – always have, always will.

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Human Resources Restructuring Competitive Advantage Marketing Strategy 183

Eric Jacobson

JULY 8, 2024

For example, Kahn foresees that AI will restructure the workforce, making AI “copilots” necessary for every knowledge worker. Within the next five years, Kahn predicts AI will disrupt almost every industry and enterprise, with vastly increased efficiency and productivity.

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Tacit Knowledge Competitive Advantage Pharmaceuticals Magazine 78

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Identify what could have gone wrong with the leadership team. It involves reassessing your business operations, starting with leadership. You may discover that some poor leadership decisions may have been responsible for your establishment doldrums. Institute new money management procedures.

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Finance Long-term Banking Restructuring 78

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. Leadership evidence-based management goldratt'

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Constraint Goldratt Restructuring System 74

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

You would think that an Ivy League institution like Cornell University would be a model of the best practices of leadership throughout its organization since Cornell and most universities believe they are growing the next generation of leaders for our country and our world. not necessarily and not always. That got everyone’s attention!

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Leadership Training Peer Review Budgeting 63

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Not that Nissan’s management had not been trying to make the right decisions to staunch the losses. billion into Nissan, but in return it required more than 36 percent of the company’s ownership and a commitment from Nissan to appoint Renault executive Carlos Ghosn as Nissan’s chief operating officer. Integrate Strategy and Leadership.

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

The HR Digest: Under your leadership, SAP successfully implemented a comprehensive workforce skills upgrade in 2017. While we were restructuring our services business, we made significant investments in training to help our employees make this skills transition and to introduce a learning culture, as learning is a lifelong journey.

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Ries Skills Human Resources Software 76

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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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Leadership. by John • February 5, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 1 Comment. When I was a young product manager back in the ’70s, the only people I could talk to about brands were my colleagues in the marketing department and the advertising agency. In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home.

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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. Adjusting in order to thrive, however, requires competent leadership and commitment to creating the best possible corporate culture. About the Author.

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Succession Teamwork Restructuring Commitment 50

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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Management Restructuring CFO Operations 12

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. I believe a far-better path is to restructure the operations in question way before they threaten the company’s survival.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

” In other words, they practice an entirely new model of management. What does digital leadership look like in this sense? Our research, which we call the “digital DNA,” identified 23 new management practices CEOs should consider, focusing on empowerment, experimentation, collaboration, data, and speed.

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CEO Leadership Metrics Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

The senior commercial and scientific directors formed a “circle of leaders” comprised of 23 senior managers who had no meaningful history of collaboration on strategic initiatives. That, in brief, is the concept of a leadership circle. Creating a leadership circle is a step toward addressing these shortfalls.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

The types of private equity firms and the approaches to managing these firms has evolved over the last 40 years through three general phases. These buy outs shifted agency from owners to managers; “corporate raiders” worked with high-yield debt to fund these turnarounds. How Phase 3 Is Changing PE Companies.

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LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

In most cases, the things companies do to get ahead of change, such as more frequent communication or manager training, are only minimally effective. Similar employee crowdsourcing efforts have been used to redefine company values (at IBM) and generate ideas for cutting operational costs (at BASF).

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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.” This post is an excerpt from his excellent, internationally bestselling book CHANGE-friendly LEADERSHIP. Change is not the enemy.

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Hotels Stress Resistance Restructuring 127

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

One of the wonderful things about being a coach is that I meet hundreds of executives who freely share their business and leadership challenges with me. 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.

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Restructuring Operations Consultative Retail 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2017

A weak salesperson will weaken a sales territory, a bad sales manager will damage their team and dampen results in their region, and a poor sales leader will eventually ruin the entire sales force. A medical device company hired a vice president of sales with an intimidating management style. He ruled by fear.

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Restructuring Health Care Self-aware Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

To deliver more value, the human resources function needs to spend more time accelerating operational improvement and less time on its traditional administrative and compliance activities. Bring people into HR with extensive operational improvement experience. Exactly how can HR accelerate process improvement?

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Process Compliance Operations Human Resources 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

For example, Google’s restructuring into Alphabet highlighted just how much the company is spending on new businesses, from self-driving cars to space exploration and more. Amazon Web Services’ success strengthens Amazon’s retail business by building scale and world-class abilities in computing and large data management.

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Company Supply Chain Retail Bureaucracy 13

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Those companies that ‘sweat’ their capabilities continuously improve them and sustainably capture the top-line growth in their industries and, ultimately, market leadership. Companies today operate in a business environment that encourages incoherence. Second, a coherent system focuses strategic investment on what matters.

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Resources Industry System Strategy 51

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

For example, the original Google car found it hard to compute the context within which it was operating. Likewise, understanding the context, business model, competition, and leadership of a client or an employer makes your understanding of content more useful. Product managers that I previously thought were hopeless became effective.

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Skills Morale Ethics System 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2018

In my experience leading and managing teams over two decades, I’ve found that job personalization — that is, fitting jobs to employees rather than fitting employees to jobs — is one of the best ways to maximize engagement. We customize without catering to prima donnas. Workplace customization has its challenges.

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Creativity PR Restructuring Mentor 11

Skip Prichard

MARCH 21, 2021

To help more workers thrive, and to make organizations more agile and efficient, we must understand these changes as they are occurring and redesign both business operating systems and our contract for work in America. How should organizations restructure and change in light of it? Millennials and Gen z are 60% of the workforce.

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Policies Trends Career Real Estate 104

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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