Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2018

Brad was leading a difficult turnaround of his company and had decided to fire his head of sales, who was a nice guy but wasn’t performing. He did have important strengths in this element: He saw the person he wanted to become and he worked toward that future, putting aside distractions and investing his energy wisely and strategically.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

Outsiders, in effect, have become more of an intentional leadership choice than a stereotypical hire in a turnaround or crisis situation. Other industries with relatively high rates of outsider CEO hires include health care, utilities, and energy. That’s nearly double the rate from 2004 to 2007.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

” But being isolated at the top can compromise your decision making and leadership effectiveness, both of which require having as much firsthand information about a situation as possible. Moving into a senior role is exhilarating and requires a huge expenditure of time and energy to get adjusted.

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2016

Was this a deliberate attempt to imprison employees and stifle their energy? We can use practices from Doug’s approach to the trust-building competency over his 40-year leadership career as a case study for the behaviors leaders should develop as they work to build and sustain trust. How to Develop the Trust-Building Skill.

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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. ” Studies show that women are more likely to be selected for senior leadership roles when the position is associated with a state of crisis or high risk of failure.

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

The New York headquarters housed over a third of its workforce, including developers, the sales team, operations, and leadership. The company wanted to preserve the energy of a start-up while creating sufficient space to accommodate future growth.

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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. Consider the remarkable turnaround at Ford.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

After studying and working with hundreds of companies in free fall, we’ve identified concrete steps that leadership teams can take to engineer successful turnarounds and transformations. First, you need to inject new energy into a tired organization under stress. Build a Re-Founding Team. Nothing about free fall is easy.

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