Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

This ‘camouflage’ approach ensures that change agents operate seamlessly within the organization, making their efforts more effective and less susceptible to dismissal. link] Williams, P. Form Strategic Alliances to Amplify Voices In any power dynamic, there is strength in numbers. Organizational Dynamics , 35 (2), 150–160.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2019

However, a company’s biggest expense doesn’t show on a P&L, at least not directly. It has to be the responsibility of every single department: human resources, training, marketing, support, sales, IT, finance, operations and, most importantly, leadership.

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Company P&L Bottom-up Advertising 69

Surviving Leadership

OCTOBER 29, 2018

I also truly appreciated some of the business practices that leadership followed that I have missed in other organizations, including ones highlighted in McCord’s book. It comes down to the people who execute those initiatives and the daily interactions that happen among leadership, employees, and customers.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 30, 2010

Successful leadership ~ The Story of a Man → May 31, 2010 · 4:14 am ↓ Jump to Comments Getting Culture Right Earlier last week, I viewed a video, a parody actually, called Office Space: Meeting The Bobs. Successful leadership ~ The Story of a Man → Like Be the first to like this post.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Similar to creating a learning environment, building an organization that not only supports virtuous principles but also causes them, requires you to invest heavily in leadership. So you must demonstrate very strong leadership. 5) Operational Transparency -. Overall transparency requires that leadership models it.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. L’Oréal has made a strategic investment in Founders Factory , a digital startup accelerator. “A clear, easy-to-memorize digital group strategy is now vocally championed by leadership across the company,” Rochet says.

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P&L Fashion Media Agility 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own. Directness.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 18

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

To have the influence to help set business strategy for the company, CMOs need to translate customer insights into terms meaningful to senior leadership. Talk about how complex marketing has become is very much in vogue, but there’s much less discussion about the operational (and diplomatic) muscle CMOs need in order to get things done.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Millions worldwide have read and embraced John Kotter's ideas on change management and leadership. Leading Change is widely recognized as his seminal work on leading transformational change, and is an important precursor to his newer ideas on acceleration: effectively managing operations while seizing new opportunity. Kotter and Dan S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

This week, Microsoft is announcing an unusual initiative that it hopes will change how the company operates: an internal fee on carbon. As Microsoft takes on more of its customers' operations through cloud-based services, reliance on the utility grid creates real operational and price risk (from outages and volatile prices).

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Price P&L White Paper Energy 16

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

He opened the dialogue, saying he and his leadership team had put a lot of thought into where they want to take their bank, and the vision they committed to was to deliver top decile ROE, ROA and topline revenue growth: a quintessential example of focusing on effect, not cause.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

"I look around and see that my male colleagues have P&L responsibility and most of us are in staff roles. But it seems every time a leadership role opens up, women are not on the slate. They can put themselves forward for leadership roles when they are qualified but have been overlooked. It would be easier, I was told.

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Education P&L Constraint Participative 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

The first is to get various functional silos and P&L centers sharply aligned with the specifics of customer requirements. Design "integration mechanisms" and operate them with rigor. Execution Leadership Strategy' Achieving speed and customer centricity depends on a crucial ingredient that''s often missing: integration.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

She holds the Ernest L. She is also Chair and Director of the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative. In her latest book, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good , she analyzed how P&G (among other companies) achieved long-term performance. But note how P&G did it.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Townes, and Henry L. A wealthy industrialist, Joseph Wharton aspired to produce “pillars of the state” whose leadership would extend across business and public life. Statistical and mathematical insights were imported (often from military uses) forming the basis of the field that would subsequently be known as operations management.

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Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 11

Women on Business

JANUARY 31, 2013

Getting more women on boards begins with getting more women in mission-critical P&L roles. “If you look on boards, one of the primary reasons we are not seeing more women joining them is that typically they are looking for candidates who either have board experience or are leading large operations. .

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

If everyone on the leadership team has an advanced degree and you don’t, it may be an uphill battle to convince them of your merits. Formal degree programs excel at general education: an MBA, for instance, gives you a little bit of everything you might need as a leader, from finance to marketing to operations. Learning.

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P&L Education Learning-by-Doing Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Is having 80% women in HR and support functions and 80% of men in operational roles what you are after? Our annual Global Gender balance Scorecard shows that 63% of the women sitting on Executive Committees of the top 100 US companies are in support functions, not P&L roles. This isn't balance, it's just Mad Men, repainted.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

After all, hackers have P&L sheets too. Measure and report that impact to business leadership as part of the product experience. Detecting and removing these kinds of malware helps maintain the integrity of advertising on Facebook, a business-critical operation.

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Team P&L Engineering Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

One CEO told me she was considering firing her CFO because he consistently ran his monthly financial report by the Operations VP before showing it to her and, as she realized, was letting the Operations VP unduly influence when revenues and expenses were recognized. Insiders tolerate ambiguity and uncertainty.

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How To CEO P&L Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Pursuing cost leadership versus differentiating for value. Leadership is changing — fast. CEOs must be agile and adaptive, operating from a mindset of continual anticipation and appraisal in order to make timely investment decisions and oversee speedy execution. Manage costs — or add value? Insight Center.

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CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? An ingrained industrial mindset keeps things “within the yellow lines,” focused on controlling operations or managing safety. Operations Competitive strategy Technology'

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Strategy Driven

JULY 28, 2019

You can see this play out in your daily operations and ultimately in the P&L. As a leader, you are constantly trying to maximize the magical effort to effectiveness equation (a.k.a. efficiency). However, there is an intangible asset that is very difficult to quantify — but without it you cannot ultimately succeed.

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Agility P&L Intangible Assets Team 62

HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2024

Amidst the complexities of leadership challenges, the unique insights contributed by Anthony Horton, Stephanie Neal, and Chris McCarthy add a compelling layer to the unfolding narrative. Stephanie Neal’s research underscores the importance of aligning organizational values with leadership actions.

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CEO Altman McCarthy Supply Chain 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

So it's no wonder that business started to wake up to the serious danger that storms and shortages present to their operations, both from direct damage to property and from massive production interruptions (i.e., Valuing and internalizing the externalities: Puma Calculates its Environmental P&L. business continuity").

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 17

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

In some ways it’s only natural that we see an increase in discussions on potential challenges for organizations in operating under a multi-generational workforce. “Generational differences in work-related attitudes: A meta-analysis”, Journal of Business and Psychology, 27(4), p. & Coulon, L. Badger J.M.,

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P&L Fraser Motivation Organizational Behavior 264

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Many of the successful managers and professionals who come back to business school at mid-career are looking for more than honing their leadership skills. Most of the “Harrises” I meet have great and large operational networks consisting of mostly internal contacts. Many are stuck in their careers. Get visibility externally.

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Career P&L How To Mentor 11

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Another well-known problem is that if you are a P&L leader in a publicly traded firm, you pay dearly for missing quarterly targets and don’t get dinged at all for failing to invest in the future. Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot.

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Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In order to allocate funds for innovation initiatives, Atrius Health’s leaders created a new department with its own P&L. The innovation and operations teams must work together and negotiate the use of these resources. Establish an innovation center. Create a dedicated multidisciplinary team. Protect the work.

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Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

Never before has leadership been so critical, and never before has it seemed in such short supply. It takes extraordinary leadership to keep an organization relevant in a world of relentless change. It takes extraordinary leadership to navigate the complexities of global supply chains, industry ecosystems, and labyrinthine regulation.

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P&L Supply Chain Bottom-up McKinsey 9

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The titles listed below—published in 2022—reflect a need to get realigned with solid leadership practices and thinking. The Crux : How Leaders Become Strategists by Richard P. Covey (Simon & Schuster, 2022) We have a leadership crisis today, where even though our world has changed drastically, our leadership style has not.

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