Change Starts Here

JUNE 6, 2013

Plowing forward without consideration of the changes people have to go through leads to resistance, delays, and added costs. Jobs that focus on process improvement, such as industrial engineers, Six Sigma Black Belts, and operations managers, are usually redesigning people’s jobs. Strategic Planning. Process Improvement.

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Six Sigma Management Human Resources Strategic Planning 124

Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2022

As it turns out, what passes for strategy in many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is ultimately just a mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. One of those books is Richard Rumelt’s The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists. The key is to focus on challenges, not ambitions.

Film 104

Film Licensing Long-term Strategy 104

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

If you resist, they will go on to the next warm body. I stated that I wasn’t interested in his projects and needed to end the call. People who hound and use you in business are out for whatever they can get, from whomever they can get it.

Strategy 90

Strategy Budgeting Risk Management Strategic Planning 90

CO2

AUGUST 8, 2010

— David Whyte from Where Many Rivers Meet ©2007 Many Rivers Press We can have faith that tomorrow will come or we can resist that temptation. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant.

Positioning 90

Positioning Executive Coaching Politics Open-book 90

Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It provides clear direction and the boundaries of operation for the troops to carry out the commander’s intent. Resist the urge to micromanage by providing too many details. It’s my variation on the concept of a ‘commander’s intent.’ It conveys the essential details. It is written with ‘will’ statements.

Leadership 202

Leadership Micromanagement Goal Strategic Planning 202

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

It is very important for leaders wanting to create Self-Starters to articulate a clear vision, values and set of goals for their teams, as this type operates by seeking forgiveness rather than permission. Brown-Nosers constantly check in with their leaders and operate by seeking permission, rather than forgiveness.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

They had to work in sequence, meaning they had to streamline the operation first — before they could launch their new growth effort. The underlying trouble had been McDonald’s working from an inside-out perspective: what fit with its current infrastructure and operations.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Decentralization Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

If your ideas are met with choruses of “that will never work,” “we can’t take that risk,” “let’s just stick with the plan,” your teammates are likely falling prey to a common decision making bias that former Rotman dean Roger Martin refers to as Underestimating the Risk of the Status Quo. Leading teams Risk management Strategic planning'

Strategic Planning 8

Strategic Planning Due Diligence Proposal Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Principally, enterprise leaders are responsible for: Envisioning : Crafting a robust vision of what strategic alignment looks like at their company, and communicating that vision in a meaningful way to others, including investors, staff, business partners and customers.

Company 8

Company Long-term System Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Once the decision is made to hire a new CEO, the founder-CEO and board should work together, ideally over a six-month period, to strategically plan the transition. Resistance to change must be overcome. This can result in chaos, confusion, and a situation where the management team is scrambling to operate effectively.

CEO 8

CEO Tacit Knowledge Chief Technology Officer How To 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

At DraftFCB, the agency's 40 or so planners are people who operate, in the words of coauthor and executive vice president Jamie Shuttleworth, "at the intersection of creativity and strategy." Planning requires passion," the authors write. The title of the book, Calculated Boldness , caught my eye, so I followed up to learn more.

Creativity 15

Creativity Advertising Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

One of the hardest things for business leaders to understand is that security teams face live adversaries who, despite headlines about “sophisticated” attacks, usually opt for the path of least resistance. Effective security investments and strategic planning can improve a company’s bottom line.

Team 8

Team P&L Engineering Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

At the same time Allan needs to take steps to develop his "strategic gears," so others see him as more than an executer. Often this starts with an effort to delegate some of his implementation responsibilities to others to free up the bandwidth necessary to operate on a strategic plane.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Taylorism Taylor Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

But to strategists focused on the big picture, this seems like resistance: “Don’t they see the brilliance of the strategy?” ” So they get defensive and begin working on overcoming the “resistance.” ” Their mental model constrained their metrics, which in turn distorted their behavior.

Execution 12

Execution Strategy Metrics Resistance 12

Leading with Trust

JANUARY 26, 2020

It provides clear direction and the boundaries of operation for the troops to carry out the commander’s intent. Resist the urge to micromanage by providing too many details. It’s my variation on the concept of a ‘commander’s intent.’ Micromanaging thwarts initiative and creates dependency on you, the leader.

Team 118

Team Micromanagement Goal Strategy 118

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

This review is the basis for most elements that will appear in a strategic plan, including the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, actions, challenges, teamwork, change management, commitment, future trends and external forces. There is a sense that company operations are out of control.

Review 57

Review Company Strategic Planning Industry 57

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2021

It comes with a variety of costs to conduct your operations overseas, from commercial space to travel, customs, shipping, and production. Noone can resist a discount! One of the first things you have to consider is how much expanding nationally and internationally will cost your company. What are your competitors doing?

Brand 75

Brand Discount Marketing Planning 75

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2015

This requires vigilance against complacency, but also the courage to resist the urge to “climb past the summit.” Among those in the enviable position of having high performance in both absolute and relative terms, the challenge is to stay the course.

Company 8

Company Analysis Short-term Customer Loyalty 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. Resulting from inflexible conditions, obsolete policies-procedures, procrastination, attitude, resistance to innovation, failure to change. Doing Things as We Always Have. Those We Bring Upon Ourselves.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

While all good leaders must keep the company’s internal operations moving forward, the very best ones must also be looking outside the company towards the customers, clients, financiers, volunteers and the organization’s entire affected constituencies. They resist change and surround themselves with like minds. System upholders.

Business Development 50

Business Development Development Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

Welcome to the paradigms that many of us have operated under for some time. Yet, out of fear, they fight, resist and are combative toward change and to those who are change agents. For some, these are stark new approaches. This is the reality in which the small business and entrepreneurial worlds have always experienced.

Transportation 65

Transportation Consultative Film Strategic Planning 65

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Hiring my trainer made all the difference, and pretty soon I was reaping the rewards of resistance training again. Which leads me to this conclusion; one of the healthiest habits you can operate in is healthy thinking! This has been the biggest contributor to how I operate now. Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders.

Succession 316

Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

Unravel these budgets and sort out the strategic implications of your current spending patterns. It will likely ruffle some cultural and operational feathers, but it can lead to great success because it creates a meaningful discussion among executives about what you really need in order to win in the market.

Cost 10

Cost How To Budgeting Strategic Planning 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

This odd couple announced a collaboration last week to "work together to apply scientific knowledge and experience to examine how Dow's operations rely on and affect nature.". But the companies that "get" how to value nature in their operations first will have the advantage, even if they then share that information.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain NGO Short-term Competitive Advantage 15

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Given that some of these problems are rooted in people’s tendency to resist change, do newer firms have an advantage when it comes to creating the best new business models? Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot. I don’t think so.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50