Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2018

During the Immelt era, the dominant mode had been of strategy by way of mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures (MA&D), including most recently the disastrous merger of the GE oil and gas business with Baker Hughes in 2016. In the fall of 2017 under Flannery, MA&D unsurprisingly became GE’s turnaround strategy tool.

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Harvard Business

JULY 2, 2018

Agile — the management approach that relies on small, entrepreneurial, close-to-the-customer teams — has a reputation that reflects its rapid adoption in software development. It is most definitely not for big, old-line companies that are facing an existential crisis and require a full-scale turnaround.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Mining, reflecting low commodity prices and contraction in energy extraction, has also been week, down 1.1 Gains in production, however, would have to extend through year-end to turnaround what has been a weak, export-hit year for the manufacturing sector. This is the biggest drop in 3-1/2 years. Utility output fell a monthly 4.3

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Moving into a senior role is exhilarating and requires a huge expenditure of time and energy to get adjusted. For example, when Xerox was undergoing its turnaround under Anne Mulcahy , in the early 2000s, each member of the senior team took responsibility for a small portfolio of key customers. Isolation is often hard to detect.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 31, 2016

The New York times has the best turnaround of the bunch, three days so I could have used this earlier. Yet, the last time someone generated this much crowd energy was Ronald Regan. Mike "Mish" Shedlock Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

But what if there were a way to make breakthrough progress by applying research-based tools and strategies to boost these numbers faster? ” 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. ’ I went anyhow.”

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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. How many still believe they can make a difference?

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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. When a company is in free fall, it makes sense to replace the management team, for all sorts of reasons. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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