Harvard Business

DECEMBER 16, 2016

No one who listens to Alan Mulally describe Ford’s remarkable turnaround escapes his rendition of One Ford , One Team , and Working Together. Leadership is changing — fast. But every CEO leading change and confronting disruption needs people and systems in place that assure key words are understood by all.

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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 just as rental houses are often given minimal maintenance, leaders of acquired firms brought in only the minimum leadership necessary.

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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. Leadership Forums. Too much of this sort of thing leads to a company full of different cultures, ideas and value systems. Private Equity.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

Sales leadership created a European shared service center and consolidated activities such as order handling, credit checking, license registration, receivables management, and invoicing. To change this, the company adjusted its sales support functions and manager oversight to the ideal ratios we’ve outlined.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

Plenty of theories have been put forth to explain Yahoo’s failures, as the company seeks a buyer following a failed turnaround attempt. By then Apple and Google were already dominant in mobile operating systems, and Facebook was surging ahead in apps. Did Yahoo’s leadership really miss the importance of smartphones?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

From looking at the qualities of the CEOs at the best-performing of these firms, we have found three fundamental CEO qualities that drive growth in the most successful PE investments: Systems thinking (the capacity to understand how a change in one aspect of the workings of an operation affects the others).

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 5, 2016

We were given full access to the academies’ management information systems, leaders, staff and students so we could see how they worked, the decisions they’d made and the impact they’d had. Like any turnaround, there is no magic bullet — a series of remedial steps need to be taken. So what did we find?

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

The first one is told by a woman who’s improved the lives of at-risk youth by revolutionizing developing countries’ educational systems. This next story is told by a health care EVP/COO who’s planned and executed several turnarounds of large hospital systems. R ésumé example #3.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

.” The tech industry’s combination of high-velocity competition, complexity, global talent, and interdependence among rivals makes it a truly unique environment, requiring a distinct set of leadership skills. They must deliver on tight timelines, quick turnarounds and short project cycles.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2016

The starting point is to broaden the focus from onboarding to encompass all leadership transitions within an organization and build an enterprise transition system that accelerates everyone.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Organizations should intervene to identify and develop promising future talent early in their careers, helping women broaden their skills by providing access to operating roles and leadership opportunities, both horizontal and vertical moves, in core business functions. And I learned that was a very important way to look at a company.”

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Kaufmann proceeded to engineer a turnaround of the company by focusing on the top end of the market.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

Recent analysis by Bain found that the biggest biopharma value creators are category leaders, and those that combine their category leadership with portfolio focus within their categories deliver annual total shareholder returns more than twice those of companies that are diversified followers. But that drags down shareholder returns.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Some maintained secret wait lists outside the system, officially adding patients 14 days before their scheduled appointments. 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.

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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. And the beauty was that it became a self-governing system.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

To quote the article, “If organizations are ‘systems for getting work done,’ processes provide a fine-grained description of the means.” 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

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. Building Block 1—Challenge the system: stay for at least 5 years. In the UK system, “governors” are the school’s board of directors.)

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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. IBM has been building a talent system that both aligns with and accelerates this phenomenon of the external disaggregation of work. Development programs must evolve from a static, closed-system approach. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2018

Strong and clear leadership. In this outbreak the WHO immediately and unambiguously asserted leadership at the global level, deploying its most experienced personnel and routinely sending its top executives to the field. Limited countermeasures for widespread transmission.

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