Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. At Bain & Company, we do not believe that companies should try to use agile methods everywhere. This takes time.

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LSA Global

JULY 11, 2023

When behavioral change in the workplace is required, change management consulting experts know the reaction of those affected by change is often one of frustration and resistance. To be successful, change must go through your people and your culture. Invite constructive debate, different opinions, and feedback.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Culture is like the wind. For organizations seeking to become more adaptive and innovative, culture change is often the most challenging part of the transformation. But culture change can’t be achieved through top-down mandate. It is invisible, yet its effect can be seen and felt.

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Extracting the benefits of healthy tension requires a thoughtful approach for managing the convergence of dimensions in a matrix. Alternatively, the large automotive company previously referenced needed a different construct. 1 Networked, Scaled, and Agile. Tension is inherent in complex organizations. Amy Kates, Greg Kesler.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

To effectively lead the operations of a business, a leader must be an expert in their functional area, manage a team’s execution of the plan, and meet short-term goals. Do your leaders encourage collaboration, constructive debate, alternative viewpoints , and delight in examining and testing different scenarios ?

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LSA Global

MAY 25, 2022

Having constructive debate in a safe environment. About LSA Global Founded in 1995, LSA Global is the leading performance consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps high growth technology, services, and life-science companies create a competitive advantage by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with their strategy.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

Let’s delve into the intricacies of constructing an effective sales strategy that makes sense to your people, your customers, and your business as a whole. This leads to improved win rates, higher customer satisfaction, and better time management. Understand Your Market Landscape Knowing your marketplace matters.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

Let’s delve into the intricacies of constructing an effective sales strategy that makes sense to your people, your customers, and your business as a whole. This leads to improved win rates, higher customer satisfaction, and better time management. Understand Your Market Landscape Knowing your marketplace matters.

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Sales Strategy Strategy Strategy& 36

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Indeed, I’m not sure I’ve met a CEO who has made learning more central to the corporate culture than Ridge has, or has found more ways to develop a thirst for learning among his colleagues. WD-40 is an unlikely setting for such a learning-obsessed culture. It is hardly a glamorous brand, but it is iconic in its own way.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2019

I started this series asking where “Agile” was headed. (I I didn't like what I saw at the Agile 2019 conference.) Part 2 was why we need managers. This part is about what “Agile” or “agile” means. Sort of like construction projects. Why a Manifesto? You might, but I don't.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Are you trying to make an agile framework or approach work? Maybe you've received a mandate to “go agile.” Or, maybe you're trying to fit an agile framework into your current processes—and you've got a mess. I've seen plenty of problems when people try to adopt “agile” wholesale. Yes, cancel.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2021

He thought agile approaches would work to “meet” and “enforce” deadlines. I suspected I would learn about engagement with my next questions about management patterns. Let's start with how management organizes teams. These management patterns create disengagement. New Management Choices.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The new role required the former CEO of Sodexo India On-Site Services to work with a team of 15 executives from different nationalities and cultures, demanding a shift to a more inclusive leadership style. How talent management is changing. ” Insight Center. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

The organizational barriers to profitable growth are foreseeable and can be managed. A decade of centralizing global product and brand management in Amsterdam had largely denigrated the field-based commercial organizations around the world into order-takers, while the global business units migrated further away from customers and consumers.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2017

It’s your job as a manager to make work meaningful for the members of your team. And what we found in our interviews was an interesting reinforcement of our prior work on employer branding and agile talent. Suparat Malipoom/EyeEm/Getty Images. But what about the freelancers with whom you work? Check in and offer feedback.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 23, 2018

NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration. In 1993 NASA was directed by the White House to collaborate with other nations on the design and construction of the International Space Station.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

So what can a manager do to ensure that people on their team or in their department treat each other well? First, managers need to set expectations. ” Managers at Marriott know that small daily acts affect how employees interact with others and that civility spreads in networks. How Self-Managed Teams Can Resolve Conflict.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The insurance industry has not been immune to AI’s advancement – whether implementing robo-advisors for investment management (Vanguard and Charles Schwab) or applying AI to insurance and loan underwriting (the Chinese search giant Baidu, which provides enhanced risk assessment capabilities). Manage change. Start small.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Agile culture is about the ability to change. You need to know why you want to change, but once you know that, agile cultures promote change.). We (as agile teams and organizations) deliver something to get some feedback and learning. You might work for one of these companies and they want to use an agile approach.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 14, 2016

How talent management is changing. In its place, switch to constructing self-directed experiences for participants that replicate the precise contexts they need to lead in. However, the CEO did know that all he could do in such a dynamic context was build new capacities for agility and change in his organization.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 20, 2017

In the Irvine, California, office of law firm Bryan Cave, managing partner Stuart Price and I led employees through an exercise in which they could define collective norms. You will garner more support and empower employees to hold one another accountable for civil behavior by involving them in the process.

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