Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2017

Here are some excerpts from their résumés and profiles: PROFESSIONAL SUMMARIES Organizational change expert with 16 years of experience in large-scale technology implementations for the Fortune 500. Translation: change management for IT projects. Translation: turnaround expert.

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Harvard Business

JULY 2, 2018

It is most definitely not for big, old-line companies that are facing an existential crisis and require a full-scale turnaround. Contrary to conventional wisdom and Hollywood action movies, dictatorial management is ineffective in large-scale crises. It’s for techies. It’s for hip Silicon Valley startups.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

But when some CEOs in this position look at the people they employ, they discover a problem: a swath of their existing team doesn’t have the necessary skills or metabolism for change to meet the new challenges. Volvo’s turnaround over the last decade offers a great example.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

While the former approach is friendlier from a change management perspective, we usually find that it leads to only incremental change. Companies with foresight will make this change before the market or an activist investor demands it. Consider the remarkable turnaround at Ford.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

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? Our study of the actions and impact of 411 leaders of UK academies found that only 62 of them managed their turnaround successfully and sustainably transformed their school.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Some maintained secret wait lists outside the system, officially adding patients 14 days before their scheduled appointments. 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.

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