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Want to Cut Complexity? Kill Your Darlings.

In the CEO Afterlife

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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Preview Thursday: Up is Not the Only Way by Beverly Kaye, Lindy Williams, and Lynn Cowart

Lead Change Blog

As downsizing, restructuring and delayering took hold in the late 1980’s, old ladders became largely inaccessible. Lindy Williams , designer and senior consultant with CSI, held roles in operations and human resources before stepping out of the corporate world to work on designing and implementing award-winning development processes.

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The CEO as Chief Brand Custodian | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

by John • October 17, 2011 • Branding , Human Resources , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 3 Comments. I’m not suggesting restructuring the entire brand management system. Human Resources. In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home. Leadership. The CEO as Chief Brand Custodian. Search My Site.

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

Restructuring has led to fewer layers of management, also to fewer opportunities for promotion. Gifford Pinchot, inventor of the term intrapreneur, has shown how major corporations can provide positive opportunities for reasonably autonomous enterprises to operate within the larger corporate structure. Life is good. 1-858-759-0950.

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How To Win With People Analytics

HR Digest

A new IBM report shows that half of CHROs identified for the study recognize the possibilities for innovation in HR operations and the acquisition and development of talent. This is ethically wrong if people analytics leads to job replacement, job restructuring and job description changes, among other things.

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Stefan Ries on SAP’s Most Comprehensive Workforce Skills Upgrade

HR Digest

SAP SE Executive Board Member and Chief Human Resources Officer, Stefan Ries explains how he is utilizing AI and Big Data to advance HR analytics as the foundations for a successful global future. In HR we now have the chance to move from an operational, back-office function to a leader of change. What do we mean by HR PUNKS?

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Harness Talent Mobility

Skip Prichard

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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