Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The good news is that millennial men are changing the way they define leadership and demanding work that fits around their families. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters. government, excellent project management is extremely rare. But to be fair to the U.S.

Management 20

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 20

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

While it is important to encourage local ownership of ideas and projects, turning them into game-changers requires clear, sometimes ruthless direction from the center around which projects to scale and in what order. Consider the challenge companies face in the rapidly changing market for power train compressors.

CEO 13

CEO Agility Technology Industry 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

announced that CEO Andrea Jung would step down next year, investors and corporate leadership gurus cheered. Though Jung, a 53-year old Asian-American woman, dazzled early in her 10-year reign, Avon has struggled mightily under her leadership in recent years. Why then are these women so absent from our leadership ranks?

Diversity 16

Diversity Competitive Advantage Middle Management CEO 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

They assigned different pieces of it to middle managers who had relevant knowledge, experience, and organizational responsibility. Given the importance of this work, all of these managers accepted their assignments. Meanwhile, the CEO kept asking her to come back to headquarters to update the corporate leadership team.

Middle Management 8

Middle Management Rogers Media Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

This “island mentality” is surprisingly prevalent among talented, seasoned managers. The paradox is that companies spend millions acquiring competitive or market “intelligence” from armies of vendors and deploy the latest technology disseminating the information internally.

Competitive Intelligence 8

Competitive Intelligence Company Drucker Review 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

The need for multicultural leadership is great and growing. In China, both multinational and Chinese companies are finding their dramatic growth goals constrained by the challenges of finding capable leaders at both the senior and middle management levels. Let people know how to help you. Seize the opportunities around you.

Globalization 11

Globalization Development Short-term Career 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

pursuing adjacent markets, making acquisitions) and significant contractions (e.g. Each strategic shift, of course, was carefully explained and justified by changing market conditions or opportunities; but the net result within the company was a performance-sapping sense of cynicism. This case isn’t the exception.

Welch 8

Welch Six Sigma Real Estate Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Take Denise, a talented marketing executive who has helped reinvigorate some of the world’s most iconic retail brands. Individuals like Denise often do extremely well in the middle management ranks but stall out on the path to the C-suite, because they seem unable or unwilling to think beyond their own division or function.

Career 15

Career CFO Sample Execution 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Historically, corporate Goliaths have taken one of two approaches to this kind of upstart competition—try to muscle them out of the market or bring them into the fold through acquisition. But the leadership at Dartmouth-Hitchcock wanted to inject innovation into their primary care program. Who is that David to our Goliath?”.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Airlines Retail 8

Management Excellence

JANUARY 19, 2011

There’s no doubt we live in interesting times…a true Dickensian Best of Times, Worst of Times environment, filled with remarkable opportunities and equally remarkable personal, competitive, societal and global challenges.

Globalization 92

Globalization Environment Development Succession 92

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

(I studied its model-cell work for my book Management on the Mend.) An aggressive HMO was aggressively moving into the market, cutting prices offered to employers. They chose Fremont because it was in the thick of the market changes and had outstanding physician leadership. Create a core team.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Process Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

Equally important, it depends on how well they manage communication throughout their organization. In 2008, the coffee chain was struggling to maintain its market position and to ward off a growing set of competitive threats. Successful transformations require many people pulling together. Consider the example of Starbucks.

Company 8

Company Video CEO Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A middle manager at a global technology organization — let’s call her “Denise” — had a problem. She’d come up with the idea of revamping the company’s inventory management approach by networking together “sleeping” resources. juanluisgx/Getty Images.

Politics 9

Politics Innovation Project How To 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The key idea of both is that management should be viewed as a mechanism — an “operating system” in holacracy — for distributing power and leadership throughout the organization. Within several weeks, the effort had won enough new projects to make the layoffs unnecessary.

Proposal 8

Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

But the very skills that propel women to the top of the class in school are earning us middle-of the-pack marks in the workplace. of middle managers in the U.S. If there's a cool project you don't quite have all the skills for, volunteer anyway. Indeed, a recent study found that women account for 51.4% but only 4.2%

Career 9

Career Learning-by-Doing Hedge Class 9

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Brandt, CEO and founder of The MPI Group and an award-winning journalist, has devoted more than two decades to studying leadership in effective, purpose-driven organizations. Mostly because it’s fundamentally more difficult to lead an organization than ever before, due to a confluence of leadership trends and external factors.

How To 76

How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76