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Ensure Success by Predicting Failure: Testing Design Solutions with Premortem Analysis

Kates Kesler

After weeks of assessment, analysis, and discussion, your design team has arrived at a comprehensive solution that will create an organization with the right structure, roles, governance, process, and metrics to deliver on the business strategy. As the sponsor or project manager, you ask, “what could go wrong”? The team is silent.

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Ensure Success by Predicting Failure: Testing Design Solutions with Premortem Analysis

Kates Kesler

After weeks of assessment, analysis, and discussion, your design team has arrived at a comprehensive solution that will create an organization with the right structure, roles, governance, process, and metrics to deliver on the business strategy. As the sponsor or project manager, you ask, “what could go wrong”? The team is silent.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business

In 2007 Harvard Business School professor Ethan S. Precision made it easy for managers to oversee their employees. Every spot on every line was visible to managers. Every spot on every line was visible to managers. Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible.

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How Nokia Embraced the Emotional Side of Strategy

Harvard Business

We investigated this topic when we studied how Nokia executives dealt with the company’s severe strategic challenges between 2007 and 2013. As part of this research, we conducted 120 interviews, including nine with board members and 19 with top managers. Practice #1: Increase trust by defining new conversational norms.

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How the U.S. Army Redesigned Its Mental Health System

Harvard Business

From 2007 to 2012 the Army health care system grew rapidly — with little central coordination — to meet the surging care needs from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Adopt a service-line-management process to systematically connect strategic goals to actual clinical care.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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If the SEC Measured CEO Pay Packages Properly, They Would Look Even More Outrageous

Harvard Business

On December 7, Portland, Oregon, passed a law that will impose a surcharge on the local business taxes paid by corporations that operate in the city when the CEO’s compensation is 100 times or more the median earnings of the company’s employees. public corporations must file with the U.S. million (57% from stock-based pay).