Martinka Consulting

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

One example in the WSJ article was about Autohaus Ochs GmbH, a Volkswagen dealership. My final example (from the article) is about the Brockhaus Group. Given his age, family situation, and inattention to company culture the price he received was about half of what it would have been (had he acted earlier).

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Peter Stark

OCTOBER 13, 2019

When it comes to toxic work environments and who causes them, we’ve concluded the majority of examples revolve around senior management or a boss, but it can be a peer, co-worker, or even customers. For example, we recently interviewed an employee who described her work environment as toxic.

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Survey Turnaround Leadership Interviews 38

Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For example, if your CSF is improving service quality, you might use KPIs like average resolution time, first-time fix rate, or customer satisfaction scores to understand how you’re performing in this area. Does your culture enable problem-solving/exploration? How often do you release new products/services?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

What she learned informed her strategy for the turnaround, which she then communicated through a series of town halls, roundtables, and memos. ” And she restored the company’s profitability — the turnaround was a success. Anderson provides another good example. Hope rekindled. Energy returned.”

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

One effective way is to work on culture. Box 2 muscle requires a culture where honest Box 2 questions are encouraged. Looking at Nadella’s communications, you may consider what new narratives could you introduce to create a Box 2 culture in your company? Imagine Jack looking at your organization.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2017

For example, one talented executive’s 360-degree reviews indicated that she was underutilized as a leader. Turnaround leaders pick up the pieces and make things right when a business or function is failing to perform. Most companies have a distinct culture.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

A series of jarring experiences have taught you that: Your management authority is meaningless in a culture that worships engineers. Dense geographic concentrations in regions such as Silicon Valley, Seattle, Boston and Bangalore foster even more cultural idiosyncrasies. Tech employees work long days and during weekends and holidays.

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Talent Culture Turnaround Interviews 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Volvo’s turnaround over the last decade offers a great example. ” Sallstrom had a second reason for looking outside the company: He and Jacoby believed that only an infusion of fresh talent could transform Volvo’s culture into an entrepreneurial one.

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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. Pick an example of a work activity that happens regularly, like a daily or weekly standing meeting.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

An example is The North Face, which is experimenting with its Fluid Expert Personal Shopper tool, powered by IBM’s Watson, to provide customers with a more intuitive search experience through a natural language capability. Start small.

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Insurance Insurance Industry Turnaround 28

Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2016

It was a vivid example of organizational leaders neglecting the importance of building trust. Contrary to popular belief, cultivating a high-trust culture is not a “soft” skill — it’s a hard necessity. This clear manifestation of respect powers huge inflections in organizational culture.

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Financial Culture Leadership Report 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Disclosure: Although Avaya currently has no ties with Innovators International, my interest in Avaya’s remarkable turnaround was initially kindled by the dozens of conversations I had with many people at Avaya when the company was a partner with our organization.). It takes a major cultural shift in the company.

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Methodologies Agile Metrics Exercises 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Historically, the organization’s culture had been slow and unresponsive because decision making resided largely at the top. He redesigned the organization to create a culture where decision rights were more appropriately distributed to those lower in the organization who were better equipped to solve problems and direct resources.

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Turnaround Change Management Leadership Operations 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2016

This is confirmed by my follow-up interviews with these leaders, which revealed that these internal transitions can be every bit as tough as onboarding, involving combinations of promotions and moves to new units or new geographies, as well as dealing with different cultures and political networks.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 5, 2016

For example, we were able to say 30 academies made X change, while 40 didn’t, and then draw conclusions from the differing outcomes. Like any turnaround, there is no magic bullet — a series of remedial steps need to be taken. Operated in regions with different levels of competition and access to resources.

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How To Resources Education Turnaround 28

Asamby Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2022

The most common example of a wiki is Wikipedia. The turnaround time can easily be days instead of minutes. Examples: Do you write long form text or prefer bullet points? Create a documentation-first culture Make it a rule that when a piece of information has been asked for once, it immediately gets documented.

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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.

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

Japan’s educational institutions and cultural work ethic give its managers a jump-start in their careers, but most companies don’t continue the development process as far as it could go. Another example can be found in the trajectory of Marcelo Martínez Mosquera. What we found was an incredible paradox.

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Turnaround Engineering Leadership Case Interview 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Leaders must have the vision and forward-focus to anticipate how technology could disrupt the business model and the skill to mobilize the organization for change and drive a culture of collaboration. Voser was impatient for a new experience which attracted him to ABB and there he learned a whole new level of turnaround leadership.

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