Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2018

As organic wine pioneer Jonathan Frey remarked in an interview, “These large companies would finance scientific studies to prove that organic was a joke and didn’t have any health benefits.” As organic wine standards were being developed in Europe and the U.S., The Turnaround. New category creation is not easy.

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2016

Contrary to popular belief, cultivating a high-trust culture is not a “soft” skill — it’s a hard necessity. Furthermore, a 2015 study by Interaction Associates shows that high-trust companies “ are more than 2½ times more likely to be high performing revenue organizations ” than low-trust companies.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2016

One study I did as part of my work at Genesis Advisers and IMD, of HR leaders in Fortune 500 companies, showed that new hires represented on average one third of all transitions in the executive ranks in a typical year. The study also looked at relative levels of support for executives vs. more junior managers.

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

An office environment reflects and reinforces a business’s core values, through the placement of different teams and functions and design elements that reflect culture, brand, and values. To illustrate how this all plays out on a larger scale in real companies, here are two mini case studies from businesses we’ve worked with.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

has found that almost half of the private equity firms it studied replaced the CEOs who ran their portfolio companies, and in 60% of those instances the PE firm hadn’t planned to make the change at the start. Selectively developing top team members to accomplish the strategy. Not seeking CEOs who value talent development.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

” For both workers and employers, the boomerang represents “a positive development,” says Karen Dillon, coauthor of several best-selling titles, including How Will You Measure Your Life? You might have “realized the culture was wonderful and you miss it.” “Former employees are known quantities.”

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 5, 2016

To understand how to turn around a failing school quickly, using as few resources as possible, we studied changes made by 160 UK academies after they were put into remedial measures by the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (OFSTED) up to seven years ago. Our findings challenge some of these beliefs.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

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. We studied them over eight years, using 64 investment and 24 performance variables to identify what they did, when they did it, and the impact they had.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The CEOs in our study were adept at telling their company’s story. CEOs in our study repeated their companies’ stories often and consistently to all their stakeholders — employees, boards, customers, business partners, communities, and the general public. . Adopt a Both/And Performance Mindset.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

In the end, a combination of unattainable objectives, an environment that lacked transparency, and a culture where failure was not perceived to be a viable option, led some VA administrators and clinic staff to manipulate data to make it appear as though the wait time goal was being achieved. The stakes, in other words, were high.

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