Organizational Talent Consulting

JUNE 12, 2023

It is not about changing but about survival. There are many different definitions for leadership, but most would agree it is about influence. Leaders need to be able to operate within and upon the business. Today, many leaders are asking how they can change the organizational culture. Advanced culture change leadership.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Leadership is about recognizing and leveraging the gap between stimulus and response to make a choice rather than a knee-jerk reaction. Like a computer operating system governs the computer's processing capability, our internal traits and attributes influence our external behaviors and habits. References: Densten, I. & Gray, J.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

We know from our change management simulation data that most leaders are challenged by unpredictable situations where the future is uncertain, and the stakes are high. And a study by Korn Ferry found companies with highly agile workforces have 25% higher profit margins than their less agile peers.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Psychology is the same whether starting a more challenging workout, an advanced leadership certificate, or an undesired task at home or work. Evidence from numerous studies suggests that increased work motivation leads to the following: Improved performance. Why work motivation matters. Increased productivity. Decreased absenteeism.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 18, 2022

And a huge knowledge and skill shift that is looming will serve as a leadership validation test. Innovations are changing the nature of work, and many jobs are getting disrupted by process automation and robotics. As the world changes people and businesses must change too. A recent MIT study revealed that wages in the U.S

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Rick Conlow

MARCH 25, 2020

The typical scenario plays out this way: The manager sets up a meeting with HR and asks for help to fire an employee. The HR rep asks the manager what intervention has been done with the employee. Most of the time the managers say, “Nothing, yet.” Proactive managers learn to do this to inspire their teams.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. A recent study of VC firms found that more-diverse teams had higher financial returns than their homogenous counterparts. How did (or didn’t) managers play a role? What made their ascent possible?

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2017

Change management can be a test for any organization. Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. Change management certainly tested us. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.)

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

Sadly, evidence suggests that 50% to 85% of mergers fail to deliver on shareholder returns despite leadership's best intentions. The leadership challenge is to figure out the best way to manage the formation of a blended new shared culture. Influence the leaders’ leadership style.

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Rick Conlow

MARCH 25, 2020

The typical scenario plays out this way: The manager sets up a meeting with HR and asks for help to fire an employee. The HR rep asks the manager what intervention has been done with the employee. Most of the time the managers say, “Nothing, yet.” Proactive managers learn to do this to inspire their teams.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. If you’d like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your full name, company or university affiliation, and email address.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

For organizations seeking to become more adaptive and innovative, culture change is often the most challenging part of the transformation. Innovation demands new behaviors from leaders and employees that are often antithetical to corporate cultures, which are historically focused on operational excellence and efficiency.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2016

In a survey of nearly 3,000 executives about the success of their enterprise transformation efforts, McKinsey discovered the failure rate to be higher than 60%, while Harvard Business Review conducted a study that suggested more than 70% of transformation efforts fail. The CEO was perpetuating the very problem he sought to fix.

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Harvard Business

MAY 19, 2016

The company’s Supply Chain Leadership Team had seen the pace of change for its group began to plateau. To address these questions, Coty partnered with Kotter International to implement a broad global change management program. The Coty experience also informs case study examples in John P. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Study after study puts the failure rate closer to 70-90%. Part of the issue is how organizations view the human aspect of the closing date, which is usually treated as the end of the transaction, when it’s really just the start of change. They are shifts that need to be made at all levels of leadership.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Anderson studied the problem, sought to understand the perspectives of skeptics, and then articulated a compelling case for the change. It’s critical to listen first, as Mulcahy and Anderson did, so you can understand what change feels like for those you’re trying to persuade.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 19, 2016

As police expert and criminology professor Geoffrey Alpert recently said , “We know what needs to happen next but we just keep studying the question instead of doing something about the answers we’ve arrived at.” Reining in this behavior requires a change in police culture. Beginning with James Q.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

holders – one studied integral programming algorithms and the other researched the use of higher math in meal planning in the military – it’s safe to say that this is a company founded on intelligence, excellence, and genius insight. Well, needless to say, a company where both founders are Ph.D. ZS Associates Revenue : $1B.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

But when you look more deeply into whether those organizations are truly redefining what they are and what they do, stories of successful change efforts are exceptionally rare. Today AWS accounts for just 10% of Amazon’s $150 billion in revenue, but generates close to $1 billion in quarterly operating profit.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Pharma PPM Toolbox Conference 2024 April, 17-18, Basel, Switzerland The event is dedicated to discussing the key success factors of project portfolio management in the pharmaceutical industry – portfolio evaluation, prioritization, and optimization.

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Harvard Business

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. A Harvard Business School case study that Robert Huckman, Sam Travers, and I wrote earlier this year documents what came next.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Some people want change, others don’t, and some simply aren’t prepared to wait for results to show. As a school leader sets off on this journey, how do they know what to do, when to do it, who to listen to, and how to manage critics along the way? We visited the schools to see first-hand their actions and results.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

Ranjay Gulati, the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration at HBS, heads the Advanced Management Program — which empowers executives with the management expertise and cross-functional perspective to drive performance across domains, industries, and borders. “It doesn’t happen overnight.

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Halo Psych

JUNE 8, 2020

For example, a study from Boston University found that team problem-solving is great but only if people get a chance to step away and do their own thinking. Something I’m always reminding leadership teams to do. Adapt how you give ideas, if you’re the one being asked When you’re a manager you wear multiple hats.

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