Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 3, 2011

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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. By business owners, for business owners, Conquer the Chaos enables you to reevaluate your approach, revitalize your operations, and realize the freedom and success your hard work deserves.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

In a PWC survey of more than 2,000 global executives, managers, and employees, only 54% of respondents said their change initiatives succeeded — and the most frequently cited problem (by 65% of those surveyed) was change fatigue. ” And she restored the company’s profitability — the turnaround was a success.

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Business Consulting Agency

JANUARY 23, 2024

Operational Inefficiencies: Mistakes in operational processes can lead to inefficiencies, wasted resources, and increased overhead costs. Their expertise spans strategic planning, financial management, operations, and beyond. Rebuilding trust is often a long and arduous process.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2017

Mayer should become a case study for highlighting this point. It is always hard to know whether such self-promotional statements are a reflection of self-delusions or an attempt to manage impressions (and fool others). Leading a turnaround requires much more than making a splash. But the effects were short-lived.

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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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Harvard Business

AUGUST 5, 2016

To understand how to turn around a failing school quickly, using as few resources as possible, we studied changes made by 160 UK academies after they were put into remedial measures by the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (OFSTED) up to seven years ago. Our findings challenge some of these beliefs.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2016

In a survey of nearly 3,000 executives about the success of their enterprise transformation efforts, McKinsey discovered the failure rate to be higher than 60%, while Harvard Business Review conducted a study that suggested more than 70% of transformation efforts fail. The CEO was perpetuating the very problem he sought to fix.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2017

In phase 3, successful portfolio transformations require financial discipline that is not an event, but a pattern; strategic clarity that is not a direction, but a commitment; operational excellence that is not a tool, but a mindset. We interviewed roughly 30 LCPs to get a sense of how this new role is shaping up.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2016

When I was heading Organization and Management Development at Pepsi International, I would encourage our international executives to study local comedy shows. Managing Across Cultures. We all went to Uganda [one of their key operations]. And being able to tune into a culture and work with different world views stood out.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Strategic stress is characterized by three zones, which executives must consider and effectively manage: Strategic Burnout (too much strategic stress). The sweet spot can be reached if there is a balance among the four project-manager types: executors, experts, gamblers, and prophets. Strategic Boredom (not enough strategic stress).

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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. In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co. Being a quick study is not the same as being a deep thinker. Selectively developing top team members to accomplish the strategy.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Throughout the research, Korn Ferry used our best-in-class CEO benchmark, which comprises typical scores for CEOs (virtually all male) who are in the 99th percentile of work engagement, as a touchstone to highlight similarities and underscore differences for the women in the study. Women could be ready for the CEO role sooner.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Senior executives tend to be shielded from organizational problems and data; they are given limited and filtered information about their operations, employees, and customers. These CEOs become supported by a team of “yes-sayers,” people who don’t push back on bad decisions or offer different opinions.

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

To illustrate how this all plays out on a larger scale in real companies, here are two mini case studies from businesses we’ve worked with. The New York headquarters housed over a third of its workforce, including developers, the sales team, operations, and leadership. courtesy of HLW International.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. A Sloan Management Review article (which I had the pleasure of working on) provides valuable context for Garvin’s most-read HBR articles.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

As a school leader sets off on this journey, how do they know what to do, when to do it, who to listen to, and how to manage critics along the way? 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.

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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. When a company is in free fall, it makes sense to replace the management team, for all sorts of reasons. Other companies can do the same.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The CEOs in our study were adept at telling their company’s story. Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. Adopt a Both/And Performance Mindset.

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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. A Harvard Business School case study that Robert Huckman, Sam Travers, and I wrote earlier this year documents what came next.

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