Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Restructuring has led to fewer layers of management, also to fewer opportunities for promotion. Leaders can no longer afford to let the vagaries of the job market determine who leaves and who stays. Young leaders engage in an “action learning” project in which they work on real-life problems facing the firm.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 17, 2024

I’ve just completed a two-day retreat with a fast-growing leadership team. Rarely do we see a leadership team as dysfunctional as this one. Each group fiercely protected its own initiative or project. Most of the projects floundered amid political infighting, turfdom, and miscommunication.

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Teamwork Restructuring Project Micromanagement 104

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. That is why live business projects can be powerful vehicles for learning, especially when they aim for dramatic outcomes on a tight timeframe. That will give urgency to the learning.

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Project Parcell How To Short-term 8

Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

He had inherited a thriving soft drink bottling business from his father, and by marketing it to South America he grew the company significantly. He introduced me to a company that was opening up a new market in Atlanta. Ultimately, his daddy got tired of this project, and the son had to cram to get his real estate license.

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Strategic Planning Real Estate Video Blog 81

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. He wondered whether his voice was appreciated.

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Restructuring How To Compliance Biotechnology 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Investors favorably receive projects with long-term payoffs, particularly those in research and development. Should we restructure the organization to lower costs and at least partially offset the loss of revenue? We had done a restructuring in 2001 with a significant number of layoffs. We viewed restructuring as a last resort.

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Restructuring Long-term Short-term Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

When organizations lack a formal innovation pipeline process, project approvals tend to be based on who has the best demo or slides, or who lobbies the hardest. Horizon 2 ideas extend a company’s existing business model and core capabilities to new customers, markets or targets.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Restructurings may be an inevitable part of organizational life but living through them—even when you’re one of the lucky ones still standing—is challenging and stressful. How can you make the situation easier for yourself and your colleagues? What steps should you take to protect your job? How do you stay positive?

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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. Leadership In a Matrix.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

Research we conducted at the London School of Economics suggests that resistance to change stems often from a negative experience of change leadership, rather than resistance to the change itself. Effective change leadership requires coordinating efforts and priorities across the organization.

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Company Restructuring Resistance Consultative 8

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. From what I can gather, much of this has been "on the hoof," with companies switching their focus from markets to products or competitors, rather than looking at the big picture.

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Restructuring Operations Consultative Retail 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

But as developed nations restructure from manufacturing to knowledge and services, my bet is on the moms, or more specifically, women — and men who can think like them. While leaders spend considerable time and effort trying to envision markets and pushing out innovation, empathy can often generate simple, yet breakthrough ideas.

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Sample Hedge Restructuring Conference 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When individual contributors are tapped to manage large-scale projects, oversee direct reports, or participate in strategic planning, they need to develop new skill sets on the fly — skills such as interpersonal dexterity, emotional agility, and communication savvy. This positive mindset is an essential starting point. Insight Center.

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Belief Systems Executive Coaching Stress Restructuring 8

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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Open-book Greenleaf Blog Marketing 272

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. And it wasn’t just about new job opportunities or increased market share. Alan Copson/Getty Images. But according to one survey of more than half a million U.S.

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Resistance Commitment Uncertainty Restructuring 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The lure of establishing an organization that uses market mechanisms to achieve its mission is substantial. The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. Some are recent graduates.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The stock market is short-term-oriented. The market favorably receives projects with long-term payoffs, particularly those in research and development. The conventional course of action would have been to cut investments in research and restructure. It is not for the profits. The profits follow." (By

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CEO Short-term Long-term Restructuring 15

Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 13, 2014

In our study of leadership characteristics, we found both consistent themes and emerging trends. Many qualities of effective leadership – characteristics such as communicating vision, demonstrating integrity, focusing on results, and ensuring customer satisfaction – will never change. Sharing leadership.

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Competitive Advantage Globalization Diversity Technology 140

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2015

“But there’s an art to the ask,” says Diana Faison, a partner with leadership development firm Flynn Heath Holt Leadership. McGinn advises asking for a raise just before you take on new responsibilities or right after you successfully complete a project. What the Experts Say. ’,” she explains.

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How To Case Study Restructuring Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

It shouldn’t happen, but it does: You realize much too late that your innovation project is in deep trouble. The following highly condensed fictional case study draws on their paper “Anatomy of a Decision Trap in Complex New Product Development Projects” in Academy of Management Journal. Were you misled by the data?

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Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

“Betting on alpha” refers to investing in projects which may have a low probability of success, but also very significant upside. Project Loon is such a moonshot project, providing internet access to remote regions by equipping balloons with wireless capabilities.

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Strategy Maturity Business Model Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Project Apollo Archive/NASA Johnson Space Center/Flickr. Sustaining NASA’s and the USA’s space leadership has called for a new way of organizing and competing. First, the frontier technologies that NASA needed were not already available on the market; they had to be developed from scratch by specialized contractors.

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Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

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.

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Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 14, 2021

“The biggest leadership challenge is to create the future while managing the present across the entire organization.” “Consumers today are tired of marketers and being constantly marketed to. Consumers today are tired of marketers and being constantly marketed to. ” -Erich Joachimsthaler.

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