Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

While the world of quarterly reports is the preserve of managers, the long term is the fiefdom of leaders. As managers deal with delivering short-term results to keep the stock price high and leaders evangelize on the long-term future of the organization, the medium term is all but forgotten. It is pleasingly limitless.

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AUGUST 18, 2021

Meeting these challenges while reducing cost to serve will require a digital-first, customer-centric approach. More often we are seeing digitally transforming legacy support systems as a key to meeting modern expectations. These roll up into what we call ‘effortless’ experiences, which will define the new age in retail.

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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 38

Harvard Business

JULY 9, 2018

But while executive coaches have improved the performance of many already-good managers and sanded the rough edges off many less effective ones, they aren’t a miracle cure. So how do those who control the coaching purse strings — HR, talent managers, and other buyers — avoid throwing money away on uncoachable executives?

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Development Turnaround Company Resources 52

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co. He was very smart and polished but didn’t see how his pointed words and micromanaging ways were affecting his management team. Not seeking CEOs who value talent development. Morale was terrible, and important initiatives were flagging.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

Organizations waste too much time - see how Bain helps them manage it like money in this 10-minute video slide deck. While the former approach is friendlier from a change management perspective, we usually find that it leads to only incremental change. Consider the remarkable turnaround at Ford. Related Video.

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

When volume surges or the unexpected happens, organizations can pivot and scale support capacity quickly to meet customer needs across channels. Cloud solutions can also offer real-time knowledge management to provide more relevant and consistent answers that are desperately needed during the holidays.

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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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Leadership Talent Turnaround Benchmarking 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2016

IBM has been building a talent system that both aligns with and accelerates this phenomenon of the external disaggregation of work. To meet these challenges, we see three priorities for developing the next generation of leaders in the “work-disrupted” age: Mastery of Digital. How talent management is changing.

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