Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2017

Six Sigma, process reengineering, spans and layers analysis, and many other tools have helped executives uncover waste in their operations — in effect, identifying labor hours (or materials) that are unnecessary in order to produce the same level of output. Today’s business environment requires a different worldview.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In research for our book, Time, Talent and Energy, my co-author Michael Mankins and I found that such investments do indeed pay off: The top-quartile companies in our study unlocked 40% more productive power in their workforce through better practices in time, talent and energy management.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Companies that are able to easily access and manage these workers will be able to unleash fresh energy and thinking inside their organizations, and quickly meet staffing needs when new opportunities arise. But making the most of flexible talent-access platforms is not as simple as adding a solution into an existing organization.

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2017

Management teams and organizations that prioritize inclusion attract better talent and perform better. Hire for talent, not a résumé Inclusive management starts before employees even walk in the door. This cauldron in turn fuels exceptional performance, particularly when activating the energies of women.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. Senior leadership teams that embrace agile do a few things differently. This takes time. Systematic Inc.,

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Our Climate Commitment is one way we help solve the unsustainable demand for energy resources and its impact on the environment. However, like many of the companies surveyed by Bain, we were unsure how to connect our strategic vision around sustainability with meaningful operational changes. What lessons can we share?

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2018

All too often, individual leaders seek — indeed are incentivized — to protect and optimize their own domains, and find themselves locked in energy-sapping internal turf wars, rather than working with peers to align and improve across the entire enterprise. What Do Enterprise Leaders Do?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2018

I just took my company through an acquisition and found that even the smallest operational change can have a significant negative impact on both employees and customers. Maintaining quality customer experience, we found, requires a mix of expert individuals and operational processes. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. One of Rochet’s first tasks was to create a leadership development program that equipped executives with the knowledge, mindset, and ways of working the company would need to grow in the digital age. Help Employees Embrace Agility.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

It’s tempting to think leadership also follows a continuum, one anchored by bad and great, with good somewhere in between. This deeply rooted belief reassures us that leadership follows a predictable pattern, and that through hard work and experience one can progress along the drawn line. Leadership is not one-dimensional.

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Harvard Business

JULY 30, 2018

. “Any time you start something new like [an innovation initiative], that cuts across many areas, there’s a potential for people feeling like you’re in their backyard,” says Michael Britt, a senior vice president who heads the Energy Innovation Center at Southern Company, a major utility operator.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

How much energy do you have at work? Either way, the reason might be your coworkers: They are infecting you with their energy, positive or negative. We “catch” energy through our interactions with people – something called “relational energy”— and it affects our performance at work.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

We know, for example, that the more hours a day adults believe they use their strengths , the more likely they are to report having ample energy, feeling well-rested, being happy, smiling or laughing a lot, learning something interesting, and being treated with respect. Start with leadership.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

When seeking new talent, Oliver Wyman’s consulting team says they are looking for employees who are driven, risky, and innovative. The firm offers consulting services including strategy, operations, risk management, organizational transformation, and leadership development. Strategic Information Technology and Operations.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

The office is incredibly diverse, with some of the best talent from 35+ countries and folks that speak 29 languages. The Manhattan office was awarded the US Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Certification at the Gold level for commercial interiors in 2013.

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Harvard Business

JULY 29, 2016

This is remembered as a “time of heroes” — a period of incredible energy and growth, when job descriptions mattered less than who had the best idea. One of the most powerful is when revenue grows faster than talent. Leadership recognizes that it needs professional systems and the professional managers to run them.

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2016

The current mantra is “Move fast with stable infrastructure”, which speaks to the organizational design challenge of operating at scale in a fickle and volatile world. Each state poses a different leadership challenge. Many have speculated since about failures of its leadership under its bullish former CEO, Fred Goodwin.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. The organization had a strong community tradition and over 4,500 talented employees.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 12, 2015

I was grateful for the recent opportunity to communicate with Jennifer Marsh, Global Head of Public Relations Strategy, and Cheryl Coulthurst, Global Head of Talent Acquisition, at North Highland. This will be of particular interest for students and recent graduates who are looking to pursue a career in the management consulting industry.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

But should enterprise leadership teams also pursue cohesion? To explore this question, over the course of six years, we surveyed senior-most leadership teams 99 times at companies representing a variety of industries, including financial services, food and beverage, energy, technology, healthcare, and retail.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

” With women apparently expending more energy to achieve the same result, the longer runway gives them fewer years to have an impact in the top job. This will also lessen the chances that talented women will leave. Women are driven by achieving business results and making a positive impact. ” Beware the “glass cliff.”

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 30, 2017

Complaints about HR include things from weak, reactive business partnering to poor talent recruitment and development, from time-wasting processes to incomprehensible communications. Next, consider talent. The best companies get a 29% boost in productivity from their talent. Finally, let’s look at energy.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. If there are superconsumers in your midst, and if they’re encouraged to speak their minds, they will inject your culture with extra doses of energy, empathy, and creativity. Unlocking Energy. Building Empathy.

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Energy Airlines Culture Retail 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

In many cases, the incapacity to successfully support the sales operations has been the downfall of a CMO. You may prefer spending time and energy on one or two of the areas outlined in your job description—the ones you feel especially good at. That is because of the simple truth that revenue and sales always win.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

They did much of the work piecing together Mr. Madoff’s money trail and just recently flew over to Puerto Rico for the Puerto Rico Government, who hired FTI to improve operations of utilities and highway units (2014). Energy & Utilities. Leadership Forums. FTI CONSULTING ORGANIZATION. Computer Forensics & Investigations.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Were you involved in leadership at all when you were there? Not at the school, just at the church level, just doing different leadership level stuff for our college ministry. And so stuff that’s related to church, or an institution of faith, you have to position in terms of mentorship, or community leadership. Awesome, okay.

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Management Consulted

JULY 2, 2017

Lots of things – from strategy, operations, and risk management to organizational transformation and leadership development. In the Boston office, the focus is on industries such as communications, media and technology, financial services, and energy. What does Oliver Wyman do in Boston? Artisan Healthcare Consulting Inc.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 7, 2022

Strategy and Leadership Team Alignment energizes an organization and increases the stock price by 170%. A multinational biopharmaceutical company brought in a new CEO to improve operational efficiencies and accelerate growth. Brimstone led the executive leadership team through our Strategy and Leadership Team Alignment process.

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

And as a mature company in a fast-growing sector where the competition for talent (especially in New York City) has led competing firms to heavily invest in their work settings, Adobe saw an opportunity to rethink the future of its Midtown Manhattan office.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors. Quality of talent matters far more than quantity of employees. Preemptive self-disruption is becoming a new normal for the serious leadership. ” The bigger the enterprise, the more jobs at risk.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

While I was working with them, the focus of my PhD gradually shifted toward how economic integration and various factors (domestic, international, political, economic) have impacted Japanese companies’ corporate strategy and operations over the past couple of decades. Hence I entered consulting. ” Pure humor.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 29, 2020

"Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities." - Joseph Campbell. In the past you operated in a compensation model where you do work and then get paid. Now you're operating in a return on investment model where you invest your money, time and talents in your business with the expectation of a return.

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 27, 2023

CASE STUDY Telecom Leader Accelerates Business Growth Through Coaching A global telecommunications provider engaged Brimstone to design and facilitate leadership development cohorts, build an inclusive global Sustainability Plan, and coach leaders across the US and Europe.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Toward a New Leadership Agenda. Leading energy companies are investing in decentralized energy grids, demonstrating the broad feasibility of such approaches. “Inside AT&T’s Talent Overhaul” 5. To do so, business leaders must balance two apparently conflicting objectives. Essential background.

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Brimstone Consulting

APRIL 4, 2023

The coachee was the head of the US Operations group; we will call him “Bob.” Having partnered with Brimstone in the past on creating a strategy for the Operations group in Europe, Bob’s manager reached out to us, and Bob agreed to enter into a 6-month coaching relationship with one of our executive coaches.

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Ethics Telecommunications Operations Leadership 52

Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

A year into their jobs, how many employees still have the unbridled energy and enthusiasm that they brought with them to their first day on the job? Unproductive routines, corporate bureaucracy, and “administrivia” kill ambition and sap energy for far too many employees. redesign the operating model. Related Video.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

Building a successful platform business is hard enough when you have an original idea, ample capital, no core business to cannibalize, and a team of top talent. Or it could be indirectly, as Opower does in giving people benchmarking data on energy usage to foster conservation and efficiency. So what’s a legacy company to do?

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