Harmonious Workplaces

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In 1999, rock-and-roll legend Rikk promoted me within six months from sales associate and drum department head at Sam Ash Music to Operations Manager, where I not only led a warehouse crew, but I became the regional trainer on an Oracle-based POS system at the age of 23. Signs and Graphic Solutions. That’s a lot of bending!

Hotels 52

Hotels Training Training Exercises 52

Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

Executive Coaching Example: A leader from one part of the world was assigned to take on operations in another in one organization. Appreciative Inquiry is a positive, strength-based approach to change management that can bring new life to change initiatives. Too often, change processes begin with what is wrong.

Leadership 52

Leadership Emotional Intelligence Agile Culture 52

Harvard Business

MAY 21, 2018

Consider this example: When The Interpublic Group (IPG) merged the direct-marketing company Draft with the ad-agency Foote Cone & Belding (FCB) to become one agency in 2006, “it was immediately apparent that the cultures of the two agencies were wildly different,” shared Marty Stock, then head of Coors advertising at FCB.

Company 32

Company Enterprise Culture Accenture 32

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

Established as a separate division in 2006, AWS ultimately addressed a long-standing analyst complaint about Amazon — that its core was only barely profitable. Today AWS accounts for just 10% of Amazon’s $150 billion in revenue, but generates close to $1 billion in quarterly operating profit.

Methodologies 53

Methodologies Culture Metrics Company 53

Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

Companies wind up in trouble and squander the time, talent, and energy of their workforce when they lose focus, spend money on things that don’t make a difference to employees or the future of the business, and use operating models that are out of whack. redesign the operating model. Redesign the Operating Model.

How To 48

How To Energy Operations Bain 48

Harvard Business

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.

Operations 28

Operations Government Development Engineering 28

Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2018

The giant German publisher made a decisive move from print to digital by making 67 mostly small acquisitions from 2006 to 2012, while launching 90 publications organically and divesting eight. Axel Springer followed a similar path.

Research 28

Research Balance Sheet Industry Sales 28