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. A CEO, however, works through her or his team, in my case, it was 55,000 employees.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 11, 2007

Taking a leadership team off-site for a few days is a great way to develop strategy, get creative, develop a team, learn, and re-invigorate a team. Determine participants and roles. Usually there’s one meeting leader, participants, maybe a facilitator, and sometimes guests. A new team member?

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HR Digest

MAY 11, 2022

Carvana aims to restructure its workforce and focus on growth in the coming year. Impacted team members will also have the opportunity to receive extended healthcare coverage, pay equal to early vesting of certain previously granted equity awards, recruiting and résumé support, and continuing participation in certain other company programs.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

While the HR team is mainly responsible for employee retention, it takes an entire organizational effort to make it a success. It takes an active HR department and research team to keep their eyes on shifting trends in order to find innovative ways to retain employees.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 29, 2015

This post recently appeared on Smartblog on Leadership : To start off the New Year, a lot of leaders will take their teams “off-site” for a day or more. An off-site meeting can be a great way to develop strategy, get creative, develop a team, learn, and re-invigorate a team. A new team member? A restructuring?

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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. But when I’m leading a team with really tight timelines, I get stressed and feel like I don’t have time to go that slowly.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 10, 2011

It was the perfect place to discuss climbing to higher levels of personal, team, and organization performance — especially during these fast changing and turbulent times. To prepare for the session I interviewed all of the senior executive participants earlier by phone. Organizational Restructuring/Building.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

After a talk I recently gave on positive psychology at a large multinational company, a senior leader told me, “I’m going to use this to fuel my team’s success, so I’ve decided to only talk about good things with them from now on.” You and Your Team Series. Difficult Conversations. Rebecca Knight.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

But sometimes you need to get into a meeting, perhaps because the decisions made there will have implications for you or your team, or maybe because you feel you’ve been left out of important discussions. Will you or your team be significantly affected by the outcome? You and Your Team Series. Mark was surprised.

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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. Over the years, these efforts have been bolstered by former participants' recommendations of the programs to their friends. In 2001, Turkey experienced a financial crisis in its banking sector. and Garanti) under the Garanti brand.

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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. ” You and Your Team Series. Turning Stress into an Asset.

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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. And there are other people who are great at following orders but cause teams to fail because of their reluctance to step up into leadership roles.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

“We had to train harder, measure our goals better, and become a better team,” Bunge said. It is also a matter of having fun and fostering strong bonds between team members to help them reach their goals. The ambition was to double sales and have a 90% employee engagement rate within five years.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Employees at TEKCO greeted with cynicism the senior executives' blog posts and podcasts about the importance of community spirit, because the same executives had previously engaged in a massive restructuring that involved layoffs. Fenne calls on every sales team, asks them to report their results and thanks them for their achievements.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

In addition to receiving traditional training, each participant designs and carries out a 100-day project that targets an important business challenge, such as increasing the firm’s footprint in the health care segment or developing new software to enhance mobile phones (these are real examples). That will give urgency to the learning.

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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.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

When Pfizer undertook a major restructuring in 2007, they turned to ten employees to tell their stories. Then build a team of social employee influencers who can direct others to executive content and real-time engagement opportunities. This type of support is especially important when a company is undergoing large-scale change.

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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. Adapted from. Strategy That Works. Add to Cart.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

To be clear about a few things up front: This is not a call for organizational restructuring, nor is it the adding of another layer of management or the establishment of a new committee per se. To start, create a diverse ad hoc team of 15–18 people from throughout the company to work together for about six months.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Although an overlay is less disruptive than restructuring the organization of care, it adds cost and essentially treats the symptom of faulty organization rather than the cause. Free-agent physicians operate independently, rather than as part of an integrated team. is delivered by independent physicians in private practice.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

How many times have you had a strategy meeting that gathered a smart, enthusiastic team to generate interesting ideas and debate their merits, yet after the meeting… nothing… much… happened? He was looking for an outside team to help Kuoni approach this question, but there were a few ground rules.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MARCH 8, 2010

Were their teams more functional and productive? Change the name of the department and the people working there no longer fit the bill and new persons came in that fit the new name, a restructuring of a sort is what they called it. Did they feel more engaged or involved? Were they happier? Did they feel more energized and valued?

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 9, 2019

I spent my time restructuring the organization and the team; hopefully positioning it for the future. As our new leadership team began to plan for 2020, I saw my role shifting from one of building something new to more maintaining and managing. At times it felt as though I was back in church revitalization. Adjunct staff member.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

The changes in healthcare – consolidation, restructuring, regulation, spending pressures – that are necessitating a transformation at Philips Healthcare are a subset of a series of powerful forces in the business world that have catapulted marketing from an often-isolated support function to a critical capability for driving above-average growth.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Having a good boss — someone who stands up for you, who buffers you from interoffice politics, and who competently represents your team to the rest of the company — is a wonderful thing. Laura set up a meeting with the leader of the broader marketing team. Except when it’s harmful to your career.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

The team was polite and respectful. Think of how often activists have pressed for the sale and restructuring of firms and for the dismissal of CEOs. By contrast, World Bank data suggests that the average holding period in 2015 for public company shares globally was just over seven months. They were also cautious.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2015

Firms spend money on happiness coaches, team-building exercises, gameplays, funsultants, and Chief Happiness Officers (yes, you’ll find one of those at Google ). In an era of constant corporate restructuring, this can be dangerous. Happiness could make you selfish. Being happy makes you a better person, right?

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 14, 2021

What is needed is a model that creates shared value, not shareholder value, a model that replaces the old notion of competition and disruption, and instead fosters collaboration, engagement and participation. Competitors participate including 14 of the top 15 life sciences companies. Most transactions take place via telephone and fax.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 22, 2015

Watching the University of Kentucky men and women’s basketball teams, however, always inspires some great thoughts for me on leadership. It takes good leadership to coach a team well. I’ve observed some great leadership principles watching these teams. Here are 10 traits of winning teams: 1. Follow my analogy?

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