Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When individual contributors are tapped to manage large-scale projects, oversee direct reports, or participate in strategic planning, they need to develop new skill sets on the fly — skills such as interpersonal dexterity, emotional agility, and communication savvy. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

Belief Systems 8

Belief Systems Executive Coaching Stress Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

This management team, like many others, has fought to increase profitability through business transformation, restructuring, and cost-cutting, without devoting much thought to keeping employees engaged and connected. Organizational agility, innovation, and growth are really difficult without engaged employees. Enough said.

Workshop 14

Workshop Restructuring CEO Morale 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

This management team, like many others, has fought to increase profitability through business transformation, restructuring, and cost-cutting, without devoting much thought to keeping employees engaged and connected. Organizational agility, innovation, and growth are really difficult without engaged employees. Enough said.

Workshop 14

Workshop Restructuring CEO Morale 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

In our book Repeatability , Chris Zook and I show how top-performing companies typically develop repeatable models that incorporate their strategy in front-line activities. 3 Ensure that the organization is agile, that it can adapt quickly to changes in the marketplace. When the percentage of management time gets to 25, beware.

Merchandising 13

Merchandising Metrics Restructuring Library 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Planning has long been one of the cornerstones of management. Early in the twentieth century Henri Fayol identified the job of managers as to plan, organize, command, coordinate, and control. The capacity and willingness of managers to plan developed throughout the century. Jon Feingersh/Getty Images.

Agility 15

Agility Planning Fayol Strategic Planning 15

Skip Prichard

MARCH 21, 2021

To help more workers thrive, and to make organizations more agile and efficient, we must understand these changes as they are occurring and redesign both business operating systems and our contract for work in America. How should organizations restructure and change in light of it? Millennials and Gen z are 60% of the workforce.

Policies 104

Policies Trends Career Real Estate 104

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

P&G is in the midst of a major restructuring, and has laid off thousands of people. P&G''s board has been under a great deal of pressure from an activist investor who has made his views on the pace of the restructuring clear and vocal. Will having one person in those three roles make P&G more agile? Why switch horses midstream?

P&L 8

P&L Restructuring Price CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

I’m told that at one point the management-through-presentation culture of the company was so extensive that they were actually investigated by 3M for potentially re-selling the huge volumes of acetates used in those days to make slides for overhead projectors!

Company 8

Company Competitive Advantage Bureaucracy Retail 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

More applicably, using these technologies will develop one’s technological skills, methodological knowledge, and subject matter experience, which is an asset to one’s career. One challenge technical communicators face is communicating with developers and engineers about software or hardware updates or changes.

Tools 50

Tools Document Restructuring Software 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Jessica Sklar, then the band’s intern and now Machine Shop’s Chief Strategy Officer, evolved the online discussions into in-person meet-ups and events at concerts, developing what came to be known as the “Linkin Park Underground.” Our business now operates like a tech startup, with less hierarchy and far more agility.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2013

A pharmaceuticals company we''ve been studying decided to deploy more than 20,000 iPads and other mobile devices to the global sales force to improve its engagement with doctors in emerging and developed markets. The logical response might seem to be to restructure and reskill the IT organization (again!)

Organization 8

Organization CIO Compliance CRM 8