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. However, as CEO he stopped meeting with his brain trust and removed the two executives who had been his competitors.

How To 28

How To Turnaround Banking Meeting 28

Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2016

Perhaps nervous about the meeting in the morning, you find yourself lying on the bed flicking through the TV channels for something to watch to keep you awake to offset the growing jet-lag. This was validated in my most recent research into mindfulness and leadership, where it emerged as the number one skill. You and Your Team Series.

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Culture Turnaround Interviews Hotels 28

Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

Pick an example of a work activity that happens regularly, like a daily or weekly standing meeting. For the attribute “location,” for example, you could ask your team: Is the meeting best facilitated if it’s held in an in-demand central meeting room or near where other people are likely to gather?

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Exercises Meeting Real Estate Survey 39

Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating. After the meeting, one colleague pointed to Peter’s decision as a key turning point: “Peter’s willingness to change his mind in public was huge progress for us in establishing a strong Box 2 culture.”

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When a private equity firm adds a new company to its portfolio, analysts rigorously size up its financial, operational, and competitive condition. He held them accountable for meeting sizable improvements, but he also supported the team during challenging periods. In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co.

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Company Engineering Turnaround System 28

Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

What were their biggest challenges, and how did you help meet them? 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.

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Resumes Interviews Cover Letters Recruiting 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

The symptoms may seem to be minor annoyances and inconveniences that could be wiped out without much effort — too much process, too many meetings, meaningless goals, and time wasted on work that no one will ever care about. redesign the operating model. Redesign the Operating Model. reset the budgets.

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How To Energy Operations Bain 49

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. Leadership is changing — fast. How does this impact his or her leadership? Insight Center. The 21st-Century CEO.

Leadership 28

Leadership Talent Turnaround Benchmarking 28

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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Company How To Turnaround Engineering 28

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?

Culture 28

Culture Leadership Resources Healthcare 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We offer such a roadmap here, the outcome of a research project , at the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership, with 25 CEOs and their practices for mastering short-term pressures and creating long-term social and economic value, even in the toughest conditions. This value-based leadership paid off.

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Metrics Study Financial Operations 33

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. To meet these challenges, we see three priorities for developing the next generation of leaders in the “work-disrupted” age: Mastery of Digital. employees, customers, free agents, communities we operate in) and so much more.

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