In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. To rise from the ashes, our young management team made several tough sacrifices to transform a multi-product, multi-brand operation from generalist to specialist. Specialists beat generalists – always have, always will.

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Human Resources Competitive Advantage Restructuring Marketing Strategy 183

HR Digest

APRIL 11, 2025

As the giant sharpens its focus on AI and operational efficiency, these Google layoffs in 2025 reflect broader trends in the industry. The current round of layoffs at Google will be a part of a strategic effort to streamline operations and prioritize investments in high-growth areas like AI. on April 10, 2025.

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Middle Management Restructuring Software Long-term 59

Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

As downsizing, restructuring and delayering took hold in the late 1980’s, old ladders became largely inaccessible. Beverly Kaye founded Career Systems International (CSI) more than thirty years ago, and it has become a global leader in developing and delivering innovative, action-based talent management solutions.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Our Universal Model of Leadership helps explain how extraordinary leadership develops and how to accelerate its development. Our Universal Model includes five stages of progressive leadership development: Egocentric, Reactive, Creative, Integral, and Unitive. Consciousness is the Internal Operating System (IOS) of performance.

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Leadership Self-aware Maturity Construction 150

Decker Communication

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Videotaping is ubiquitous in the development of world-class athletes. This year it seems that for every inquiry we receive for event-based support, we’re also getting as many inquiries about upcoming restructurings and all the communications challenges that these initiatives entail. Absurd, right?

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Restructuring Storytelling Video Class 99

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Coaching is a collaborative process focused on individual development and improvement. Developing Leadership: Uncovering the Advantages of Coaching Coaching is one of the most effective ways to develop organizational leadership. Coaching also helps leaders develop the skills and competencies required to excel.

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Consultative Organization Self-aware Objective 221

Chartered Management Institute

JANUARY 14, 2025

It became apparent that, whenever we took a new direction, wed just sheep-dip people in the new brand and expect them to operate. A brilliant piece of brand advertising can in fact set your company up for failure if you're promising something thats not being delivered, he says.

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Brand Restructuring Banking Learning-by-Doing 52

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

For me businesses are as much or more about the people than they are about the products and markets …so those tough restructuring calls (or sometimes the shut it down calls) are the hardest things ever. Sometimes they aren’t happy calls – and that’s when it gets really hard. Rebel Brown : Ah – when the light goes on! I don’t think they work.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Restructuring has led to fewer layers of management, also to fewer opportunities for promotion. To retain top talent in the future, executives will need to clearly identify, develop, involve, and recognize key people. Provide opportunities for development and involvement. . The decline in opportunities for promotion. .

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

As leaders, we should be allowing the best of employee behaviors to drive the culture and operations, and not allowing negative behaviors to drag things down. I worked for a large entertainment company and went through an internal restructuring designed to foster more front line customer service.

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Succession Restructuring System Training 150

LDRLB

JUNE 23, 2010

The underlying assumption of TOC is that organizations can be controlled by variations on three measures: throughput, operating expense, and inventory. Operating expense is all the money the system spends in order to turn inventory into throughput. Throughput is money generated through sales.

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Constraint Goldratt Restructuring System 74

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 13, 2020

The findings emerged from a study of the automotive industry in nine developed countries, which collectively underwent 205 collective layoffs from 20 major brands over a 15 year period. It’s likely that the merit of the firm’s prior actions will be called into question, however, as will their future prospects. ” .

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HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2021

When data is sufficiently large, it is utilized to train algorithms that predict talents and capabilities; screen performance; set and survey work outputs; link workforce to various state of emotions; provide training and development; search for patterns across various teams; and more. How does AI become key to this dynamic?

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How To Due Diligence Leadership Pipeline Stress 111

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Gerald Adolph is a New York-based Senior Partner with Booz & Company with a specialty in strategy and operations for technology-driven businesses. His work primarily focuses on assisting clients with growth strategy, new business development, and industry restructuring.

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Restructuring Newsletter Strategy Technology 62

Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2023

This might involve tough decisions like restructuring or letting go of less profitable product lines, but such changes can lead to a more robust business post-crisis. It might highlight weaknesses you were previously unaware of or present opportunities for growth and development. Are there inefficiencies you can address?

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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.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 4, 2011

Gerald Adolph is a New York-based Senior Partner with Booz & Company with a specialty in strategy and operations for technology-driven businesses. His work primarily focuses on assisting clients with growth strategy, new business development, and industry restructuring.

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Restructuring Newsletter Strategy Technology 56

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Gerald Adolph is a New York-based Senior Partner with Booz & Company with a specialty in strategy and operations for technology-driven businesses. His work primarily focuses on assisting clients with growth strategy, new business development, and industry restructuring.

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Restructuring Newsletter Strategy Technology 56

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Gerald Adolph is a New York-based Senior Partner with Booz & Company with a specialty in strategy and operations for technology-driven businesses. His work primarily focuses on assisting clients with growth strategy, new business development, and industry restructuring.

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Restructuring Newsletter Strategy Follow-up 56

HR Digest

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The move follows through with their “Operational Excellence Program” that they announced in October 2022, adding that additional organizational restructuring was necessary, highlighting that certain corporate functions would be supported by third-party outsourcing providers in addition to the Hasbro job cuts.

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Franchising Restructuring Outsourcing Retail 98

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Gerald Adolph is a New York-based Senior Partner with Booz & Company with a specialty in strategy and operations for technology-driven businesses. His work primarily focuses on assisting clients with growth strategy, new business development, and industry restructuring.

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Restructuring Newsletter Strategy Technology 50

The Practical Leader

MARCH 2, 2022

” In culture development efforts, leaders will strongly declare their commitment to core values like safety, quality, service, engagement, teamwork, integrity, innovation, and the like. Integration — day-to-day operating decisions are delegated to increasingly autonomous frontline teams.

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Commitment Teamwork Restructuring Morale 69

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

While we were restructuring our services business, we made significant investments in training to help our employees make this skills transition and to introduce a learning culture, as learning is a lifelong journey. In HR we now have the chance to move from an operational, back-office function to a leader of change.

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Ries Skills Human Resources Software 76

Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2020

This can cover situations such as growing a business (which requires ‘growth capital’ for expansion or development); financing operational changes such as restructuring to make the business more profitable; financing acquisitions of other companies; or delisting a public company in order to give it private status.

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Real Estate Finance Hedge Restructuring 65

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

While other companies were struggling to break even and keep their operations afloat, Zoom was one brand that was growing exponentially and it was well-placed to develop its operations and consider additional areas of growth, such as the development of Zoom’s internal diversity and inclusion policies.

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HR Digest

MAY 17, 2024

From assessing readiness and developing communication strategies to spearheading training initiatives and tracking the impact, HR’s role in change management and their contributions are essential for ensuring a smooth and successful transition.

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Management Training Agility Policies 64

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Effective followership plays such an important role in the development of future leadership skills that freshman at all the United States service academies (the Air Force Academy, West Point, Annapolis, and the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies) spend their first year in formal follower roles.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

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. This online tool allows any individual to create a mobile application for uploading to any operating system including Android, Apple, BlackBerry, and Windows.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 1, 2024

The team develops Key Performance Indicators and process measures to watch for and quickly correct bottlenecks or breakdowns. Communication systems (often visual) are developed to keep operational teams at the functional and task levels of the process connected and involved in continuous improvement activities.

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Process System Management Root Cause Analysis 52

Innovation Excellence

APRIL 20, 2020

Marketing was wearing suit and tie everyday, and teams were operating by consensus and under the tight control of one leader. What we need today is a corporate environment that gives a capable employee space to develop and shine. So, self-development fosters team success. This was when ‘facetime’ at the office was mandatory.

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Consensus Team Building Career Decentralization 52

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

billion into Nissan, but in return it required more than 36 percent of the company’s ownership and a commitment from Nissan to appoint Renault executive Carlos Ghosn as Nissan’s chief operating officer. Neither a restructuring strategy nor a turnaround leader alone could have engineered Nissan’s historic rebound. Ensure Strategic Fit.

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Chief Operating Officer Short-term Strategic Fit Strategy 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Because IPOs involve the complete restructuring of the company’s ownership, there are many details that need to be ironed out. By contrast, many of the largest publicly traded tech companies that operate in the same industry as the private businesses for sale on Empire Flippers are valued at up to 40 times earnings. About the Author.

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IPO Real Estate Cost Company 62

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In addition, we believe that your starting point for strategy development is what you are already great at, rather than studying the industry and market for opportunities. Is it more important to consider capabilities when you develop a strategy now than it was, say, five years ago? SD : Why now? What do most companies do instead?

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Resources Industry System Strategy 51

Deming Institute

JUNE 9, 2015

Restructure training. Develop the concept of tutors. Develop increased in-service education. Provide operational definitions of all jobs. Loren Vorlicky of the Health Services Research Center translated them into a health care context. Dr. Deming included their work in Out of Crisis, pages 201-202: 6.

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Deming Health Care Restructuring Crisis 28

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

To deliver more value, the human resources function needs to spend more time accelerating operational improvement and less time on its traditional administrative and compliance activities. Bring people into HR with extensive operational improvement experience. In HR, we need to focus on what is important.".

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Process Compliance Operations Human Resources 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

A constant theme during meetings over the last three years has been how globalisation and the economic crisis have forced organizations to rethink their strategies and change they way they operate. Worse, organizations rarely show people how to operate in a new structure, which can also undermine effectiveness.

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Restructuring Operations Consultative Retail 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

How to find good quality employees, how to hang onto them, and how to develop them into better employees — these are the questions managers across the world constantly wrestle with. The weak link in that approach is that with the focus on outside hiring to get skills, few employers are providing development opportunities.

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Organization Restructuring Talent Management Skills 17