Lead Change Blog

MAY 1, 2015

I was serving a team that was feeling a lot like that. The number of objectives the team was responsible for and the goals for each objective were increasing. Like every team under pressure, we had choices: We could throw our hands up and surrender. And by the way – why aren’t your people making more sales calls?

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HR Digest

APRIL 25, 2023

“Why Good Employees Get Fired”— Every employer dreams of having a team of high-performing employees who can help the organization achieve its goals and objectives. Downsizing or Restructuring This can lead to the departure of top talent, even if they are good performers.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 23, 2022

A remedy for this, you might imagine, is for medics to graduate into managerial roles, and therefore bring their clinical expertise to the management teams. For instance, the early months of the pandemic saw rapid digital transformation in medicine, with technologies such as telehealth introduced in double quick time.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 2, 2022

Recently I was asked to facilitate an executive retreat for the leadership team of a professional services firm. Assessment and feedback from the leadership team and managers and staff showed vast differences. Integration — day-to-day operating decisions are delegated to increasingly autonomous frontline teams.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Companies like Apple and Okta were among the first ones to have laid off hiring teams in an attempt to recession-proof their futures. This move makes sense because during the ‘ Great Resignation ’ companies were striving to grow their hiring teams in order to keep up with the demand for new workers. This trend isn’t new.

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HR Digest

MAY 23, 2021

Transformational changes: These are large-scale changes that require an investment of time and money into new systems and restructure the business. The IT companies, with their exposure to digital technology, were more open to the change and quickly adapted. Change Management at Work. And some did. Factor in the people.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Agile HR can be defined by its principles of responsiveness that encourage restructuring of work to facilitate immediate feedback, planning, and action. It encourages immediate, internal interaction and a change-centric approach to work across projects and teams. What is Agile HR? These leaders concentrate on the delivery goals.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Optimists favor ‘ doing more with more ,’ placing bets that higher sales and profits will pay for the added investments in headcount or technologies; we’ve all been there at one time or another. A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 27, 2019

Apple on its pay-roll has incredibly talented team members who are working on autonomous systems and associated technologies. The team, however, will focus attention on other key areas in 2019, implying that some will be deployed to other projects handled by the company.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2021

What sorts of “insight” are expected from technologies? This is ethically wrong if people analytics leads to job replacement, job restructuring and job description changes, among other things. How do organizations use personal data accumulated by machines and make predictions of different types of intelligence?

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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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The Practical Leader

JUNE 14, 2023

This too shall pass” From Bolt-On Programs to Built-In Culture Change Hundreds of studies over the decades have shown that 50 – 70 percent of improving customer service levels, restructuring, mergers/acquisitions, introducing new technologies, performance management systems, leadership training, and the like fail.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 12, 2024

Finance digital transformation involves leveraging cutting-edge technologies for better operational efficiency and enhanced strategic decision-making. This can be done in various ways, including automating processes, restructuring how tasks are completed, and minimizing the amount of time employees spend on non-productive activities.

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

We needed to shift faster to public cloud and new technologies such as IoT, machine learning, SAP Cloud Platform and advanced analytics. Our technology has helped us tremendously in analyzing the skills of our workforce, provide learning offerings to employees globally, and get access to talent pools worldwide.

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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

Technology trends. When we work with C-suite executives and with senior teams in our organizational practice, we often hear concerns about the disconnections between the current organizational culture and the needed culture to implement the future-proof strategy,” our COO David Altman says.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 13, 2010

a lot of companies focus on restructuring their organization structure (hierarchy). Between teams. Between members of the teams. Work flows from one team member to the other. Periodically, they overhaul their structure, add new positions and assign new/diverse responsibilities to people. Because, work flows horizontally.

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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. New Technology. Organizational Restructuring/Building. Keeping up with Technology. Sales Training/New Business Development. Customer Service.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

Washingtonians are not the only ones in transition; companies are reorganizing, restructuring, and adjusting their plans for 2009. In order to keep your team motivated in the midst of what can be challenging changes, there are a few things organization leaders can keep in mind to keep their teams interested and engaged: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Wearable technologies, implanted devices, and smartphone apps allow continuous monitoring and create a ubiquitous, 24/7, digitized picture of your health that can be accessed and analyzed in real-time, anywhere. Technological advances based on the Bartender model will also push the boundaries of healthcare into new retail frontiers.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 17, 2024

I’ve just completed a two-day retreat with a fast-growing leadership team. They scored themselves at the lowest levels we’ve seen on our Team Dynamics Survey. Rarely do we see a leadership team as dysfunctional as this one. ” This team was quite bewildered. ” This team was quite bewildered.

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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

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Many of us are familiar with the hazards of Groupthink - when teams or organizations operate on autopilot and feel a general false sense of invulnerability. In some rare cases, individuals are able to push back against team consensus and help organizations recognize and proactively respond to changes in the competitive landscape.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

There is no burden on those who proposed a new idea or technology to talk to customers, build minimal viable products, test hypotheses or understand the barriers to deployment. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force, one of us built a curation process to help technology solutions to be deployed rapidly. As the head of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2017

A weak salesperson will weaken a sales territory, a bad sales manager will damage their team and dampen results in their region, and a poor sales leader will eventually ruin the entire sales force. An education technology startup hired a sales leader who came from a large, well-respected firm. Consider two examples.

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Rather, they are boldly restructuring every function in their organizations to boost their firms' long-term ability to deliver affordable and sustainable solutions to increasingly cost-conscious and eco-aware consumers. Challenge R&D teams to create "good enough" solutions. Specifically, CEOs must: 1.)

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. He wrote a short document titled Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager and used it to train his team on his basic expectations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Teachers ended up with more children in a classroom; customer service representatives ended up with more phone calls; and managers ended up with more people to manage as teams were consolidated. You and Your Team Series. How to Boost Your Team’s Productivity. No matter the job, everyone ended up with a lot more work.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

An early example comes from an organization restructure we have been working on. We used an analysis of anonymized email and calendar data to predict what impact the number of direct reports a manager had on the ability of specific teams to collaborate. That helped us to optimize work design to achieve the result the client wanted.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

During our study we learned that a leader's everyday actions are one of the most powerful signals to their team and organization that innovation truly matters. Jobs assembled a team of brilliant engineers, gave them the needed resources, and infused the Macintosh team with a vision of what was possible.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Now that technology allows us to work anywhere, on any device, work is something people do — not just a place to which they go. As companies design their workplaces for the future, adopting the right technology and putting the right policies into place are key to business strategy and organizational success.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

In the oil industry, for example, what used to be weeks of inspection work now takes just days, thanks to drone-based thermal imaging and gas “sniffer” technology to inspect oil rigs and pipelines. This will mean hiring the types of data scientists typically found at data-rich technology companies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Right away, the senior management team converts its PowerPoint decks into a road show that explains the strategy, develops a comprehensive implementation plan, sets up a program management office, establishes steering committees, assigns roles, and even starts restructuring. But after six months the plan starts to falter.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Digital technologies enable companies to better engage with their customers and offer superior experiences at affordable costs. Thriving companies are also integrating related products and services into sophisticated industry solutions, while extending and restructuring industry boundaries, essentially creating whole new industries.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

” This feedback helped Oka, an industry outsider, convince President Kazuo Ushida, a 40-year veteran of Nikon’s technology businesses, that the company needed to revisit its dialogue with investors. Not until the restructuring was completed would Nikon pursue a growth agenda. The response was disappointing.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Rather, they are boldly restructuring every function in their organizations to boost their firms' long-term ability to deliver affordable and sustainable solutions to increasingly cost-conscious and eco-aware consumers. Challenge R&D teams to create "good enough" solutions. Specifically, CEOs must: 1.)

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

When Jobs returned in 1998 he restructured his team with senior managers who possessed a rich mix of strong discovery- and delivery-driven skills, and as a result the company churned out hit after hit, from the iMac and iTunes to the iPad, iPhone, and iPad. Jobs did this when he saw the mouse and graphical user interface (GUI) at PARC.

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