Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2016

Comedy can be particularly hard to “get” if you’re not from the originating culture, but that’s exactly why it shines a light on how different cultures tick (“The Office,” which was syndicated in some 80 countries but had localized versions created in eight, is the classic example ). We traveled together.

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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. Several years ago, for example, I worked with a senior executive who was competing for the top job at his firm.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 5, 2016

Operated in regions with different levels of competition and access to resources. 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.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2016

” This reflects an endemic lack of self-awareness in leadership, and the costs are significant. When we dig into the roots of a leader’s unproductive behavior, we look for what we call the “operative narrative ,” the “tape” playing at an unconscious level that’s driving unwanted behavior.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

developing the business plan and go-to-market strategy that has enabled us to maintain 100% ownership, operate part-time, grow it slowly over 20 years, and win Sam Adams’s 2016 “Brewing and Business Experienceship” year-long mentorship prize. R ésumé example #2. R ésumé example #3.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating. He recounts one such example in his autobiography Jack: Straight from the Gut : “In those days I was… trying to blow up traditions and rituals that I felt held us back. So, how do you build Box 2 muscle?

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

For example, we’ve seen an explosion of open office layouts, sn part because openness, transparency, and collaboration are some of the attributes companies strive for today. Pick an example of a work activity that happens regularly, like a daily or weekly standing meeting.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2017

Every organization has a slightly different framework of expected experience, but I like to look at this through the lens of strategy and operations. Likewise, I know numerous chief HR officers who have done tours in business, operations, HR, and elsewhere. You can be stronger at one of them, but you need to know how to manage both.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

Companies wind up in trouble and squander the time, talent, and energy of their workforce when they lose focus, spend money on things that don’t make a difference to employees or the future of the business, and use operating models that are out of whack. redesign the operating model. Redesign the Operating Model.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround. The leadership team had to work through vestiges of VA’s rule-based past. Could the organization turn itself around?

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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. Since Knudstorp took over, Lego’s revenues have increased by 400%, and its operating profit margin has increased from -21% to 34%.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

I’ll give a few examples, starting with his first HBR article but mostly concerning later work. (A A follow-up article, coauthored with Amy Edmondson and Francesca Gino, delved more deeply into such issues as psychological safety, openness to new ideas, and leadership attention.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. employees, customers, free agents, communities we operate in) and so much more. 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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