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APRIL 19, 2016

Outsiders, in effect, have become more of an intentional leadership choice than a stereotypical hire in a turnaround or crisis situation. (Planned successions exclude mergers and acquisitions, as well as situations when CEOs are abruptly forced out.) That’s nearly double the rate from 2004 to 2007. one of the authors of the study.

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JUNE 29, 2018

GE’s fall accelerated on October 25, 2015, with activist hedge fund Trian announcing a $2.5 In the fall of 2017 under Flannery, MA&D unsurprisingly became GE’s turnaround strategy tool. billion equity investment in GE stock, one that made it a top 10 shareholder. GE stock was trading at $25.47

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MARCH 12, 2018

Volvo’s turnaround over the last decade offers a great example. Between 2011 and 2015, the company added 3,000 new people in engineering and development. Developing what we call an “M&A strategy for talent” is one way to overcome this. For years, Volvo was a brand stuck between a rock and a hard place.

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AUGUST 9, 2016

From 1996 to 2015, the number of publicly traded companies in the United States alone dropped nearly 50%. These buy outs shifted agency from owners to managers; “corporate raiders” worked with high-yield debt to fund these turnarounds. Leaders were driven by short-term profits and rapid action to flip the organization.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

From 2008 to 2015 SCA’s revenue rose 88% (from $690 million to $1.3 Leaders who were internally driven to improve themselves stayed with the organization while others opted out. The impact began to show in the first year, with an 11% increase in profits. And it has continued to this day.

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AUGUST 4, 2017

“If you’re entering a turnaround situation,” you need to be prepared to “inject new ideas” and make some tough decisions right away, Watkins says. She returned in 2015. You don’t want to “imply that you’ve see it done better at other places and now you’re back to fix a mess.”

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JULY 18, 2016

Doug identified “Inspiring Trust” as his number one mission in his 10-year turnaround of Campbell Soup Company, where his efforts resulted in cumulative shareholder returns in the top tier of the global food industry, and among the highest measured employee engagement levels in the Fortune 500, particularly with his leadership team. .”

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MAY 18, 2017

In “Change Through Persuasion” (2005), another piece coauthored with Michael Roberto, he departed from that norm, describing how Paul Levy, then CEO of Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, led a painful turnaround. Case closed (until engineers develop an algorithm that does the job better).

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround. billion, its budget in 2015 was slightly higher than the total gross sales of General Motors.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In 2015, for instance, he raised the base employee wage by 33%, to $16 an hour, and introduced an enhanced benefit program for employees with household incomes under 300% of the federal poverty level, potentially saving them thousands per year in health care costs. .”

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