Culture Operations Study Turnaround 
Harvard Business
AUGUST 22, 2018
Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. She’d gone to Arkansas to review operational plans and financial projections for the rest of the year with the team on the ground. Do we join hands and sing Kumbaya?
Harvard Business
MAY 30, 2016
Even without speaking the local language, you can learn a huge amount about a country’s culture from tuning into local television shows, especially comedy programs. When I was heading Organization and Management Development at Pepsi International, I would encourage our international executives to study local comedy shows.
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Markovitz Consulting
JULY 11, 2017
He describes his “shock and awe” approach (my terminology) in his excellent book The Lean Turnaround , where he takes the company through several week-long kaizen events. Operational and financial improvements are rapid, dramatic, and lasting. You build your way up to those levels.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 17, 2016
What she learned informed her strategy for the turnaround, which she then communicated through a series of town halls, roundtables, and memos. ” And she restored the company’s profitability — the turnaround was a success. “The response was overwhelming,” Mulcahy said. “Defection slowed to a trickle.
Harvard Business
AUGUST 11, 2017
In phase 3, successful portfolio transformations require financial discipline that is not an event, but a pattern; strategic clarity that is not a direction, but a commitment; operational excellence that is not a tool, but a mindset. We interviewed roughly 30 LCPs to get a sense of how this new role is shaping up.
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
The CEOs in our study were adept at telling their company’s story. Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. Adopt a Both/And Performance Mindset.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 24, 2016
In a survey of nearly 3,000 executives about the success of their enterprise transformation efforts, McKinsey discovered the failure rate to be higher than 60%, while Harvard Business Review conducted a study that suggested more than 70% of transformation efforts fail. The CEO was perpetuating the very problem he sought to fix.
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