Harvard Business

JULY 2, 2018

It is most definitely not for big, old-line companies that are facing an existential crisis and require a full-scale turnaround. None of these conditions exists in extreme events such as natural disasters, terrorist attacks, major military battles — or large-scale business turnarounds. It’s for techies.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

FTI expanded into investigation and research capabilities as well as turnaround, restructuring, bankruptcy and forensic accounting with the moves. Restructuring/Turnaround Services. Honored with Seven M&A Advisor Turnaround Awards. Honored by Finance Monthly as Turnaround & Restructuring Firm of the Year, Singapore.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

JANUARY 1, 2023

This highlights a disconnect because it is all about getting together with people they love and care for and events, games, concerts, etc…should be leading the way. There is a lesson for all of us in Barnes and Nobles’ turnaround: “If you want to sell music, you have to love those songs.”. Also, read the piece for the take on pricing.

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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. “The response was overwhelming,” Mulcahy said. “Defection slowed to a trickle.

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Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2016

” Little did I know that over the next 10 years I’d be part of the biggest corporate turnaround in global history. We reserved press releases and events for only the most important products or company milestones. From Sydney I moved to Singapore, where I joined the company and led Asia Pacific regional communications.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Finally, networking is important at consulting firms, and social events are focused on helping consultants build contacts and relationships throughout the firm. This expertise may be as broad as “operations turnaround” and as specific as “benchmarking for insurance companies.” 2) Heavy team interaction.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2017

Leading a turnaround requires much more than making a splash. In any event, one would hope people resist the temptation to make inferences about female leaders based on this case only, not least because Mayer is hardly representative of the average female leader or CEO.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 16, 2020

I’m trained for urban search and rescue, wilderness search and rescue, emergency medical response, basic life support, and mass casualty events.] [When I’m not teaching about case interviews and working with clients, I volunteer and train as an emergency medical responder.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

A turnaround subsequently lowered strategic stress to a productive level by discontinuing many of their seemingly unrelated projects, re-focusing on their core business, as well as streamlining operational processes that improved coordination activities. The multitude of projects drove the company in numerous directions at the same time.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2017

In phase 3, successful portfolio transformations require financial discipline that is not an event, but a pattern; strategic clarity that is not a direction, but a commitment; operational excellence that is not a tool, but a mindset. This third phase has led to large private equity organizations governing their assets in a unique way.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

For example, one executive director of a nonprofit told me that when she was appointed to the position, after many years in the organization, long-time colleagues stopped inviting her to birthday celebrations and other social events. She was left with fewer relationships and more uncertainty about what was going on.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2016

These buy outs shifted agency from owners to managers; “corporate raiders” worked with high-yield debt to fund these turnarounds. But for phase three (buy and transform), financial discipline is not an event, but a pattern; strategic clarity is not a direction, but a commitment; operational excellence is not a tool, but a mindset.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2016

The research involved conducting and coding 88 in-depth behavioral event interviews of leading change with 65 leaders, spread across multiple industries and from across five continents. This was validated in my most recent research into mindfulness and leadership, where it emerged as the number one skill.

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Confessions of a Consultant

APRIL 30, 2017

It offered a ‘turnaround’ challenge. The event, in part consciously designed to win the ‘hearts and minds’ of the sales team, had an immediate impact. In his own words: “ Where’s the fun in taking over a successful company. All you can do is hope not to screw it up.”. In many ways he wasn’t the perfect fit.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Compared with the predominantly male CEO benchmark, the women scored lower on confidence, measured as a function of belief in whether they were in complete control of events and outcomes that define destiny. In this context high humility reflects an understanding that no one person defines an outcome for an entire organization.

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Confessions of a Consultant

DECEMBER 10, 2017

The legendary book ‘Moments of Truth’ by Jan Carlzon, detailed the business turnaround enacted at Scandinavian Airlines Systems (SAS) and was on the executive best-seller bookshelf in the late 1980’s. You might be having an event over Christmas and decide to do something. It’s hardly a new idea.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2016

While some situations demand outside successors — such as a turnaround or a discontinuous shift in the industry and strategy – we believe that internal candidates remain the future CEOs-of-choice. CEO succession is an ongoing process designed to develop the talent pipeline — not an isolated event.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

The central idea is that decision making is a process, not an event. In “Change Through Persuasion” (2005), another piece coauthored with Michael Roberto, he departed from that norm, describing how Paul Levy, then CEO of Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, led a painful turnaround.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Eurointelligence February 20 With events unfolding in the Ukraine, the German grand coalition crisis was pushed a little into the background. With events unfolding in the Ukraine, the German grand coalition crisis was pushed a little into the background. Friedrich thus became the first political casualty of the case.

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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. As a school leader sets off on this journey, how do they know what to do, when to do it, who to listen to, and how to manage critics along the way?

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