The Practical Leader

MAY 30, 2012

” BCG’s study identified six critical factors that cause reorganization and restructuring efforts to succeed or fail: Synchronize Design with Strategy. What’s amazingly common and incredibly idiotic is how often senior executives impose reorganization and restructuring from the top down. Design Layer by Layer.

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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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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2017

He works for a large national, not for profit organization in the UK, and it is mired in yet another major restructuring process, driven, as ever, by dwindling funding. Senior managers follow, apparently slavishly, structural change, without a clear vision to underpin it. The current process has been on-going for months.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In 1973/4 I participated in an Overseas Fellowship at General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) in a work/study cooperative programme in Flint, Michigan, which was the birthplace of GM. This programme which moved me through all major departments (Engineering, Finance, Supply, Vehicle Assembly, IS&T etc.)

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Bullying or discriminating against other employees Participating in fraud. Some fair dismissal examples under this reason include: The organization is restructuring, so certain offices are no longer needed. This should be done after the proper performance management process has been taken. Consistent late arrival to work.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 6, 2014

One trend on this issue was clear—the younger the participant, the greater their emphasis in the importance of technological savvy. Reengineering, restructuring, and downsizing are leading to a world where outsourcing of all but core activities may become the norm. d) Be positive role models in leading the use of new technology.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 29, 2015

For example, the manager of the meeting leader is a key stakeholder. What’s going on in the environment that may influence the participant’s behavior, mindset, or participation? A restructuring? Stakeholders may be attending the meeting or they may not. Consider the context. For example, is there a pending downsizing?

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Exit interviews are a key way to identify why an employee wasn’t able to settle into an organization so it can be addressed in the next round of hiring Ensuring a job description accurately represents a role can help ensure candidates know what they are signing up for Explain company policies, probation criteria, salaries, etc.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 11, 2007

Determine participants and roles. Usually there’s one meeting leader, participants, maybe a facilitator, and sometimes guests. For example, the manager of the meeting leader is a key stakeholder. What’s going on in the environment that may influence the participant’s behavior, mindset, or participation?

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 10, 2011

To prepare for the session I interviewed all of the senior executive participants earlier by phone. Organizational Restructuring/Building. It’s often way too easy for executives to look out the window and point to changes they want to see in managing change for everyone else. Succession Planning/Generational Change.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2018

In competitive markets, managers have a strong incentive to give their best effort. But economists have long argued that when companies are insulated from competition, their managers may not be motivated to maximize the profit of the firm and instead may choose to enjoy the “quiet life.” Kenneth Andersson for HBR.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 7, 2012

I recently ran a Moose-on-the-Table workshop for a major division of a large company going through the wrenching change of a wholesale restructuring and totally refocusing their business. Part of our discussion with this management group was how really bright people can come across as not wanting to hear other ideas.

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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. When Pfizer undertook a major restructuring in 2007, they turned to ten employees to tell their stories. In the examples below, Cisco, Pfizer, and Symantec are our clients.).

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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. He wondered whether his voice was appreciated.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

In a new follow-up study , we explored how to short-circuit the debilitating effects on a team of a leader describing negative events, such as a potential restructuring or poor sales. In this study, 248 participants were first tested on a standard measure of problem solving.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The right to win is the ability to enter or participate in any competitive market with the reasonably justified belief that you will succeed and create value. CDS starts with what you as a company do best – better than anyone else – and builds from that internal base of strength in making market participation choices.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

In the next few years, in the wake of a restructuring of Turkish monetary policy, the sector revived. So, within our new talent management project, we instituted an internship program and developed a new program dubbed "Talent Camp" to communicate and promote Garanti's reputation as a premier employer.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The onslaught of mounting stressors include global challenges, such as climate change, terrorism, and political turmoil – as well as personal and professional challenges, such as illnesses, job changes, and organizational restructuring. For many of us, the initial response to stress is to look for external fixes.

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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. How talent management is changing. Insight Center.

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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. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2015

Later, when the participants went out and made these very requests, strangers turned out to be twice as likely to say “yes” as the participants had expected. When they returned to the lab, many participants expressed surprise at how willing people were to go along with their requests. (In

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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. According to Lucid, building managers can realize significant energy savings purely from operational measures.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

To remain relevant, the banks must internally mutate, disrupting themselves to participate in modern banking. From my practice working with bank clients in the continent, here are a few suggestions to make that happen: Restructure staff. Most still put marketing managers in nice cars to look for clients.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2012

The problem is that most companies simply don't manage a horse race the right way. Nardelli was ousted due to poor management — not to mention an autocratic leadership style. The board's participation should be palpable and continuous. A well-managed horse race doesn't end with the final selection of a chief executive.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

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. Both the ease at which best practices diffused throughout the company and the company's revenues increased.

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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

The chief responsibility of any board is management of the senior executive. When it comes to managing the CEO, many boards underperform. Books and articles abound on how to manage the arrival of a new leader. Consider the organization’s potential growth, restructuring, new programs, and strategies. “I Here are the keys.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MARCH 8, 2010

Were the hospital’s costs better managed or the patients’ experience enhanced? One place I worked for it was a way for management to move people around/let some go. Were their opinions being sought out more often? Were their teams more functional and productive? Did they feel more energized and valued?

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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. There could be C-suite participation, but only as peers; the CEO and board members are excluded.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

In my consulting work with large, multinational companies, I see a pervasive anxiety among managers who have trouble finding people for skilled positions, no matter what industry or region. There are several ways to restructure work either to require fewer skilled people or to get more flexible in deploying skills.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

The conservative Kingdom, at the heart of the Arab-Islamic world and one of the world’s key oil producers, is in the midst of a fundamental restructuring process that centers around the country’s large, but oil-dependent economy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

Since September 2016, Torkild has spent a couple of days a week at the Björn Borg headquarters, attending workshops, meetings, and fitness tests; having lunch with and talking with employees; and participating in sports hours (25 to date). During 2016, employee engagement increased by 3%, to 75%.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

We wrote about our adventure nearly a year ago in The Atlantic, but as we thought more about our interaction with Tejon Ranch’s managers, we realized there were valuable lessons that we wanted to share with the corporate leaders who are likely to confront the risk of an activist campaign. The team was polite and respectful.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Skill development is clearly a major priority for companies and managers these days. Managers learn how to articulate a business opportunity in ways that energize team members. The company’s president convened a meeting of the executive management group to organize the improvement effort.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Workflows and innovation initiatives have been artfully reorganized around "projects" to facilitate faster, cheaper and easier contingent participation. In fact, temps with Androids and iPhones already use services like Gigwalk and LinkedIn to more profitably find and manage their part-time and/or temporary work. Of course not.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2015

3D printing will restructure manufacturing. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum , taking place November 5-6, 2015 in Vienna. The theme: Claiming Our Humanity — Managing in the Digital Age.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

This means centralizing and systematizing activity throughout your company while still fostering participation and experimentation. We thought that creative, capability-rich companies would have paid a lot of attention to the way they organized and the value that restructuring gave them.

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