CaseInterview.com

MAY 31, 2022

None of these five leadership functions requires functional expertise that exceeds that of those who report to you. That will increase their turnaround time for the work orders in their group by 70%. The question you do need to be able to answer is whether a 70% improvement in turnaround time is worth the $200,000 cost.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Being treated with respect had a more powerful effect on employees than other more celebrated leadership behaviors including recognition and appreciation, communicating an inspiring vision, providing useful feedback — even opportunities for learning, growth, and development. People valuing Campbell.”

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 1, 2022

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting company that specializes in aligning teams around their vision, mission, values, goals and action plans. Learn more about how we can help align your team with our strategic planning and implementation services.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Inside the cultural turnaround that helped the tech giant think like a startup.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 25, 2016

AlixPartners is an international business advisory firm based in Southfield, MI known for its work in corporate turnarounds, bankruptcy assignments and restructuring. Generally regarded as turnaround market leaders, AlixPartners is doing a killer job at taking up more room in the consulting space by strategically hiring a plethora of gurus.

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Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2017

Here is a verbatim snippet from her résumé at the time: PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY AND SERVICES Senior consultant with professional experience in Organization Development and Change, Leadership and Organizational Communications and Coaching , as well as internal and external Corporate Communications, including global marketing initiatives.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2017

Making these shifts requires increased attention to organizational governance around three domains: talent, capability , and leadership. To focus that attention and transform the companies in their portfolios, PE firms are establishing a new role that we call a leadership capital partner (LCP).

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Markovitz Consulting

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

John Shook describes how within the constellation of GM plants, the Fremont plant went from worst to first in quality in one year, with a 180-degree turnaround in culture, all while keeping the same workers. (In Or small issues that don’t necessarily make it to the radar screen of leadership even if they’re important to the employees.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 1, 2018

This book tells the story of a successful sales executive who, after leading an analytics-driven turnaround (in Data Driven, this book’s predecessor), faces a new turnaround challenge as chief human resources officer. The Data Driven Leader shows you how to use this tremendous asset to lead your organization higher.

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Prudent Pedal

JANUARY 28, 2020

Ask questions about production efficiency, turnaround times, collateral organization/dissemination, and costs. How did our leadership team contribute to or inhibit your success? Tell Marketing Leader that you look forward to seeing him/her at your next weekly one-on-one meeting with him/her and at the next firm leadership team meeting.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2018

So what he mostly needed was hub-and-spoke, one-on-one leadership, through weekly individual meetings, supplemented by periodic group get-togethers. In turnaround situations, for example, the most important roles for the team often are Agenda Setters, Execution Drivers, and Architects (leading required organizational transformation).

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The Management Centre

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Talk through options for communicating better, aiming to ensure the Project Sponsor has the right information at the right time and an agreed turnaround time. Explain the impact on the project outcomes when decisions and/or sign off are delayed. How to minimise this in the future.

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Peter Stark

JANUARY 30, 2018

Meet with the leader to discuss how they perceive their leadership and what they believe others would say about their leadership, communication, and performance management style. Administer a 360 Leadership Development Assessment. Assess the leader’s perception of his or her strengths and opportunities.

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Peter Stark

OCTOBER 13, 2019

This is not a toxic environment, but an example of great leadership and doing the right thing. Hire an Executive Coach: When someone has been allowed to negatively impact an entire workgroup or culture, it’s difficult for them to change their communication and leadership style.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Leadership & Developing People Book. You’ve not only been a great marketer in one region, but proven that you can lead marketing when you have a new team, in a turnaround situation and in a different geography. Further Reading. 8 Steps to High Performance: Focus On What You Can Change (Ignore the Rest). Marc Effron.

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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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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Leadership Alignment Executive sponsorship ensures that the entire firm stays aligned and works together to achieve high-level goals. Do process improvements support strategic objectives? Does your culture enable problem-solving/exploration? Do employees proactively look for opportunities to improve?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2017

With that luxury in our hands now, here are some critical leadership lessons we can draw from Mayer’s tenure as CEO of Yahoo. Too often when we evaluate leadership performance, we fail to distinguish between the leader’s personal success and the success of their companies. Experience (still) matters.

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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. Honored with Seven M&A Advisor Turnaround Awards. 1999: FTI Consulting began trading as a public company on the NYSE.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Instead, I’ve been more successful with, e.g., ”turnaround specialist” or “business developer.” Focus on leadership and managment “systems/structures,” not on people (which can be hard to do with today’s infatuation with heroic leaders. Leadership. Coaching and Action Learning.

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ConsultX

AUGUST 10, 2021

A one-stop turnaround plan, Conquer the Chaos lays out a complete path to make your business run smoothly and provide you with the freedom you desire. So many entrepreneurs experience this, and some have given up the hope of ever finding the money, time, and control they thought business ownership would bring them. But take heart!

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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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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. “Those are more than just words,” he passionately declared. Insight Center. The 21st-Century CEO. Sponsored by Cognizant.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

A&M is an independent global professional services firm which provides leadership, problem-solving and value-creation services to companies across the industry spectrum. Value Partners has turnaround and change management expertise working with industrial and service multinationals. Leadership. Tel: +852 3102 2600.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 26, 2019

The servers we wanted had a two-week turnaround time. The leadership team was hesitant, as they were concerned about losing control of the group. The company had $250 million at stake to solve this problem in the next 48 hours. 3) Role: As interim CIO, it was my role to solve this problem using any means possible. and to do it fast.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2016

” This reflects an endemic lack of self-awareness in leadership, and the costs are significant. One client of ours realized early in the process of leading the turnaround of a flailing division that her impatience was making performance worse and weakening confidence in the future.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2016

This was validated in my most recent research into mindfulness and leadership, where it emerged as the number one skill. What Leadership Looks Like in Different Cultures. His approach led to a very successful turnaround of this country’s operation – and all done without the local leaders feeling culturally imposed upon.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

Outsiders, in effect, have become more of an intentional leadership choice than a stereotypical hire in a turnaround or crisis situation. According to PwC’s DeAnne Aguirre, one reason for this may be that when companies fail to groom women for top leadership positions, those women are more likely to be recruited away.

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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

JULY 9, 2018

One CEO we worked with was known for his smart turnarounds of a large media company. Ultimately, he was passed over for a permanent role on the parent company’s leadership team, and left the organization. Before any coaching can be effective, they need to wake up to the ways their actions affect others.

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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. Did Yahoo’s leadership really miss the importance of smartphones? One of the most prominent is that Yahoo was late to mobile. Perhaps by 2012 it was already too late.

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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. The loneliness that often comes with being a CEO may seem like a small price to pay for the rewards, recognition, and power that come with the job.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 5, 2016

Like any turnaround, there is no magic bullet — a series of remedial steps need to be taken. Do improve governance, leadership, and structures first. Great teaching is wasted without the right governance, leadership, and structures, with well-behaved students. So what did we find? Don’t reduce class sizes.

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2018

Brad was leading a difficult turnaround of his company and had decided to fire his head of sales, who was a nice guy but wasn’t performing. Pat LaCroix/Getty Images. Three months later, he still hadn’t fired him. I asked him why. His answer? “I’m a wimp!”

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

.” In his characteristic style, Welch blasted the Elfun Society at their leadership conference. ” His Box 2 speech had an impact within Elfun and its turnaround became a symbol of transformation for GE as a whole: “…Today [2001] Elfin has more than 42,000 members, including retirees.

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2016

Doug identified “Inspiring Trust” as his number one mission in his 10-year turnaround of Campbell Soup Company, where his efforts resulted in cumulative shareholder returns in the top tier of the global food industry, and among the highest measured employee engagement levels in the Fortune 500, particularly with his leadership team.

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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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