Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2017

In our work of leading change in higher education and teaching students and executives about the change management process, we’ve gained a deep understanding of why resistance happens and what leaders can do to overcome it. Effective change management is critical to the vitality and progress of every organization.

Change Management 28

Change Management Efficiency Conference Education 28

Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Forum participants will have an opportunity to learn from inspirational project management leaders as well as attend masterclasses revealing the aspects of delivering sustainable projects, Agile transformation, application of technologies, and more.

Industry 52

Industry Automotive Pharmaceuticals Management 52

Rick Conlow

MARCH 25, 2020

Managing change. On a client phone conference a HR executive proudly said, “We have 100 new initiatives.” This is why Kotter, the leading guru on change, says that over 70% of change plans fail. See this eBook for ideas, C hanging Change Management. Success requires focus.

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Training Training Emotional Intelligence Leadership 52

Cheryl Cran

MARCH 21, 2013

Research by the US Conference board in 2012 states that happiness is and will be a key factor in whether employees stay engaged with their current employer. Every great leader always leaves the company, department or team in better shape than when they started.

Leadership 29

Leadership Energy Comparison Conference 29

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

For example, at last year’s Drucker Forum conference in Vienna, I was part of an executive round table with John Hagel, Julia Kirby, and Hal Gregersen to talk about “the power to innovate.” I say “could” because you will reevaluate any of it once you learn more.

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Meeting Exercises Conference Marketing 52

Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2016

As part of his effort to get developers at Apple to transition from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X, Steve Jobs held a mock funeral at the 2002 Worldwide Developers Conference. Sometimes, a dose of levity can help.

Company 28

Company Sports Conference Retail 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The middle layers spend their entire days in meetings or on conference calls, traveling to meetings outside the hospital, or negotiating contracts with vendors. Investor-owned hospitals rarely have more than three or four layers of supervision between the nurse that touches patients and the CEO.

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System Management Nonprofit Operations 37

Cheryl Cran

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

A few days ago I was the keynote speaker on the 2nd day of a large project manager conference – when my keynote on evolutionary leadership was over the MC asked me, “what is a dinosaur of a leadership process that has to be changed for the future of work?” ” My answer?

Data 20

Data Leadership Enterprise Conference 20

Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

We know that when IT projects fail, it is usually not because the technology didn’t work (although this can sometimes be the case), but because the changes required at an organizational and employee level weren’t managed effectively.

Tools 28

Tools Construction System Retail 28

Harvard Business

JULY 8, 2018

Live from Dell Technologies World conference in May 2018, Matthew Saleski, global enterprise account executive at LinkedIn, sits down with Dell Technologies’ Stella Low, SVP of global communications, and Ari Lightman, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College to discuss an overview of realizing 2030.

Industry 28

Industry Healthcare Intellectual Property Education 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

They are creative financiers who immediately look for new revenue sources, such as acquiring a primary school or developing non-teaching offerings using the school’s facilities for out-of-hours gym memberships, meetings, and conferences.

Education 28

Education Study Financial Resources 28

Cheryl Cran

JUNE 28, 2016

It was my distinct pleasure to be a keynote speaker for the annual First West Conference in Harrison Hot Springs this month. Cheryl : At your recent conference there was a debrief on a project that was rolled out as a game based on the Amazing Race can you tell us more about how that theme added to the success of the project roll out?

Interviews 22

Interviews Leadership Agile Financial 22

Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

For Z and S, the conference launched opportunities to consult on the many client projects that came their way. During the day, they lectured at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and by night worked on their client needs. In 1987, ZS was employed by a large U.S. corporation to reorganize, redesign, and reallocate U.S.

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Case Interview Interviews Sales Pharmaceuticals 100

Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

We used to think, “We’ll pay $20,000 to go into a conference and it will result in work.” That example you shared about going to an event or a conference, investing $20,000 or even if it’s $1,000 or $5,000 in hoping that’s going to somehow create the big win for you. My partner, Ron, was at the TEDx. Maybe, maybe not.

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Consulting Company Sales System 100

Harvard Business

JUNE 25, 2018

Not long ago, I asked 100 CEOs attending a conference how many of them were currently involved in a significant business transformation. hbr staff/jake hinds/unsplash. Nearly all of them raised their hands, which was no surprise. According to a study by BCG, 85% of companies have undertaken a transformation during the past decade.

Policies 53

Policies Exercises Strategy Strategy 53

Cheryl Cran

JUNE 12, 2016

I recently was the keynote speaker for a tech conference in Phoenix and a CIO stopped me in the hallway to talk about a major tech rollout they were planning – he was worried because they were launching six technologies that all talk to each other AT ONCE! Most project management approaches have ‘change management’ as a component.

Leadership 20

Leadership Benchmarking Guidelines Case Study 20

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

In my first national press conference, in September 2014, I gave out my cell phone number and my email address, and so I get emails and calls from veterans every day. I had to find a way to understand what was really going on at the front line, and to get employees to do the same thing.”

Culture 28

Culture Leadership Resources Healthcare 28

Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2018

And a Chief of Radiology, charged with integrating radiology departments between two merging hospitals, found important synergies between his role identities: “From a managerial standpoint, my role is change management and navigating the hospitals through complex changes. I’ve got to protect myself.”

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How To Examples Interviews Study 39