In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. The principle then travels down through the various functions, and ends at sea level with an individual’s daily “to do list.” The strategy I’ve grown to love and count on over a 45-year career is do less, better.

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Human Resources Restructuring Competitive Advantage Marketing Strategy 183

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The services are provided via agents with wireless tablets who travel to remote regions in mobile vans. LG also restructured its organization by promoting locally which further endeared the brand. Sevamob provides healthcare and advisory solutions to the BoP masses in Northern India.

Competitive Advantage 154

Competitive Advantage Prahalad Blue Ocean Strategy Glocalization 154

The Practical Leader

MAY 25, 2022

Down the hall, Brian’s boss was meeting with the HR director to review staffing for new roles and projects emerging from the recent organizational restructuring. Before you start, develop categories such as reading, learning, meetings, family time, relaxation, travel, telephone calls, visiting, preparing, planning, etc.

Tips 81

Tips Restructuring Constraint Open-book 81

HR Digest

APRIL 3, 2020

Within the past three weeks with Coronavirus creating havoc around the globe, companies have switched to restructuring workplaces, with their emphasis on remote work. Until a few weeks back, the concept and practice of remote work were growing but still was a limited part of the workforce. Remote Teams and Workplace Compliance Issues .

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Compliance Restructuring Environment Travel 64

QAspire

JANUARY 20, 2011

To deliver higher value to customers, business leaders implement complex strategies, restructure the organization periodically, lay out new initiatives, improve upon they existing processes, focus on sales, training, people etc. It is all a value game, I agree, and focusing on value delivery is at the core of any business.

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Directory Restructuring Quality Blog 138

QAspire

OCTOBER 13, 2010

a lot of companies focus on restructuring their organization structure (hierarchy). Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer The Quest of Better Outcomes: Hierarchy And Process In quest of better outcomes (efficiency, results, productivity, improvements etc.),

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

An early example comes from an organization restructure we have been working on. Let’s take the example of the recent executive order in the United States that imposed a travel ban on seven mostly Muslim countries. These sorts of projects are usually motivated by a desire to improve strategy execution and reduce costs.

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Restructuring Analysis Survey Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

And the long-term trends that have driven corporate restructuring are not going away — globalization, technical change, and ever fiercer competition between firms. Big mergers in other industries have also been costly — DaimlerChrysler , AOL-Time Warner , Boston Scientific-Guidant , and Citicorp-Travelers , to name a few.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

Or they can come from without, the land of restructurings and layoffs, divorce or other major life shifts. Knowing when it is time to end — and ending well — will become an increasingly valuable skill as lives lengthen and transitions become multiple across both personal and professional lives. They are the prequel to re-creation.

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Restructuring Planning Skills Project 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Companies that leverage these technologies to enhance their talent strategies are tapping into a whole new way of thinking about work and restructuring the way work is done. Decrease travel costs while meeting as often as you like. Offer modern, flexible workspaces that inspire people while reducing overhead and real estate costs.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Technology Restructuring Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

The approach comes with its own lengthy constitution which details how to restructure an organization peopled with leaders who are held accountable for their own roles and contribute equally to the success of the entire unit. The social animals who travel in packs care about two things: First, who is dominant? And second, who likes me?

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Koestler Company Restructuring Travel 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

This is the latest step in the company''s journey to dramatically reduce the cost of space travel, and follows the first private resupply of the International Space Station with the launch of their Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft last fall. Musk quickly zeroed in on the one area ripe for innovation: cost reduction. SpaceX has learned.

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Cost Innovation Long-term Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

“He abandoned you for more money and travel, without thinking twice about Green Horizon’s mission or your friendship. He had been wooed by the 75% salary increase and the opportunity to travel, he told Ram, but he wanted to feel like he was helping to build something again, not just keep someone else’s business running.

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Case Study Real Estate Travel Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Here's a quick quiz: Have you ever tweeted your business-travel plans? A few tweets or Facebook comments about a work project can give a competitor valuable insight into a company's product plans, and travel information might suggest that marketers or salespeople are aiming at new clients or regions.

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Company Media Travel Tools 8

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Traveling down the path set by the service academies, it may well be that the most effective people in any organization are those who are equally adept playing both leadership and followership roles. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 Pulse Meme Feed What Is Your Brand Against?

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

She knew it wasn't an ideal situation but she thought she could make the travel back and forth work. Then her new employer announced that the company would be restructuring and everyone assumed there would be lay offs. He started interviewing, taking flextime to travel to the meetings. And she did for the first year or so.

How To 15

How To Reference Flextime Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

In his first four months in office, he put his signature to 403 documents, 245 of which were approvals for travel for himself and his appointees. Although former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis made eloquent appeals about the need to rethink macro, he said very little about changing how the economy is run. In a country slipping from 1.8%

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

Think of how often activists have pressed for the sale and restructuring of firms and for the dismissal of CEOs. Word travels fast among shareholders. Moreover, early hostility can make any later proxy fights and recriminations seem inevitable. Indeed, any chief executive has good reason to fear an activist.

CEO 8

CEO Real Estate Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Masala has been at Kuoni, a leading travel services company, since 2007, and is known for frequently shaking things up. So nobody was shocked when, for a recent strategy project, Masala passed over many well-known consultancies that he viewed as having already “made a science out of their way of thinking of restructuring.”

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Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating.

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Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Thomas Cook Group, the tour operator, indicated that the cost of the Egyptian and Tunisian uprisings would be on the order of $32 million and Tui Travel has warned it could lose up to 30 million pounds. Lafarge , the French cement group, saw its share price fall four percent in one day.

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Strategy Politics Short-term Long-term 13