N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In the text that follows you’ll hear Sam’s views on leadership, the state of the market, and you’ll be introduced to his retirement ambitions and the future challenges for the boardroom, following his return to Perth, Australia. I had joined the Rio Board in 2009, so I already had broad oversight of the company’s diverse operations.

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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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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Identifying Organizational Needs: Assessing Challenges and Goals Assessing the challenges and goals of an organization is a critical first step in providing effective leadership advisory and executive coaching solutions. Assessing the leadership team’s and employees’ readiness to embrace new ideas and behaviors is vital.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Cruise layoffs will affect around 24% of its workforce as it works to restructure operations following an accident that forced it to halt U.S. Image Credit: getcruise) The GM Cruise layoffs, which primarily affected commercial operations and related corporate functions , are the latest turmoil for the robotaxi startup.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 23, 2022

Research from Harvard Business School reminds us, however, that precious few doctors receive any kind of leadership or management training, so may be unsuited to the task. In many ways, the pandemic underlined the need for more skills, especially as many operational factors were moved to virtual platforms due to social distancing regulations.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Signs of a Lemming Leader: Use of jargon: Do you use the terms restructuring, high reliability, six sigma, just culture, strategic sourcing, population health, or employee engagement in your organization? Your bookshelf: Are they all leadership books? If you are trying to make your operation more efficient, then say so. “To

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 2, 2022

Recently I was asked to facilitate an executive retreat for the leadership team of a professional services firm. Assessment and feedback from the leadership team and managers and staff showed vast differences. Integration — day-to-day operating decisions are delegated to increasingly autonomous frontline teams.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JUNE 21, 2021

This post is an excerpt from his excellent, internationally bestselling book CHANGE-friendly LEADERSHIP. Change can involve the adoption of new technologies, reengineering, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, culture blending, or any of a number of other forms. Change-friendly is also about leadership. Why settle for less?

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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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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

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 Practical Leader

JUNE 14, 2023

This too shall pass” From Bolt-On Programs to Built-In Culture Change Hundreds of studies over the decades have shown that 50 – 70 percent of improving customer service levels, restructuring, mergers/acquisitions, introducing new technologies, performance management systems, leadership training, and the like fail.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 24, 2017

We were both managers of large sales teams, worked for the same overly demanding boss, and had to manage in a period of never-ending restructuring and downsizing. Get out of the weeds – Operate at your level – set a vision, be strategic, understand and articulate the big picture.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2021

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. Performance Management.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 8, 2024

For example, Kahn foresees that AI will restructure the workforce, making AI “copilots” necessary for every knowledge worker. Within the next five years, Kahn predicts AI will disrupt almost every industry and enterprise, with vastly increased efficiency and productivity.

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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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The Practical Leader

MAY 1, 2024

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. Lack of senior managers’ strategic leadership. Key milestones are celebrated as improvement efforts continue.

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HR Digest

MAY 23, 2021

They include hiring additional staff, improving office tools and operating procedures. Transformational changes: These are large-scale changes that require an investment of time and money into new systems and restructure the business. Here are some tips to managing change in the workplace in a streamlined manner.

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HR Digest

MAY 17, 2024

Whether it’s a major restructuring, the implementation of new technology, or a shift in company culture, change management ensures that the human element of these transitions is carefully considered and supported. This is where HR’s expertise and strategic guidance come into play. Change management begins and ends with HR.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Identify what could have gone wrong with the leadership team. It involves reassessing your business operations, starting with leadership. You may discover that some poor leadership decisions may have been responsible for your establishment doldrums. Institute new money management procedures.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

It involved restructuring into wholesale and retail operations and providing an array of new retail services. . Having had advance notice, the leaders had worked diligently with a top consulting firm to create a comprehensive strategic plan that would make them competitive.

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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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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 8, 2013

Draft a provocative vision and values The operative word here being, “ provocative.” You can elevate energy levels by restructuring work flow to allow mental breaks during the day, encouraging a supportive and social environment, and amplifying the enthusiasm and excitement surrounding your team’s accomplishments.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 7, 2011

Level Five Leaders : Jim refers to a hierarchical matrix of leadership that describes 5 different types of leaders, and suggests that only with rare exception can anything other than a Level 5 leader take a company from good to great. I have personally witnessed just about every style of leader both succeed and fail.

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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. Leadership evidence-based management goldratt'

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In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 6, 2016

Heinz, like so many other multinationals gave the stereotypical corporate rationale — they said the plant was unprofitable and part of a global restructuring. That tenure came to an end in 2014 when Heinz decided to mothball the factory and put 740 people out of work. Declining Sensitivity of Downsizing.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

You would think that an Ivy League institution like Cornell University would be a model of the best practices of leadership throughout its organization since Cornell and most universities believe they are growing the next generation of leaders for our country and our world. not necessarily and not always. That got everyone’s attention!

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

The HR Digest: Under your leadership, SAP successfully implemented a comprehensive workforce skills upgrade in 2017. 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.

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HR Digest

APRIL 3, 2020

Within the past three weeks with Coronavirus creating havoc around the globe, companies have switched to restructuring workplaces, with their emphasis on remote work. With the growing work from home situations, employers and organizations should be aware of the efficient practices of remote work, operational as well as legal.

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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. Under his leadership, Ghosn said, the struggling automaker would return to profitability in a year and halve its debt a year later.

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In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 17, 2011

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

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Now, Nokia’s global layoffs and restructuring efforts will center around China and Europe as part of its overall plan to reduce costs by 2026. The specifics of the job cuts in Europe are even fewer as sources have declined to comment on the operations. But why is Nokia cutting jobs? billion ($1.3 billion) by 2026.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Be aware, however, that constant re-engineering, reorganization, and restructuring in pursuit of efficiency (or the latest management fad) has a questionable effect at best. Adjusting in order to thrive, however, requires competent leadership and commitment to creating the best possible corporate culture. About the Author.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

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. Employee Engagement Leadership'

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Leadership. by John • February 5, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 1 Comment. Indeed, a case can be made where specific restructuring is necessary to bring companies to the new economic reality. Leadership. In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home. Search My Site. Search for: Categories.

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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. Mike Myatt: What’s been most rewarding to you in your work in the leadership field? Without integrity – there is no leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Capital-intensive factories have a high-fixed-cost, low-variable-cost operating model. Every day GM operates such factories, it expends more resources that could be redeployed elsewhere. I believe a far-better path is to restructure the operations in question way before they threaten the company’s survival.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

What does digital leadership look like in this sense? Leadership is changing — fast. One large media organization faces large incumbent players and operates in a market that is growing quickly. What’s unique about this company’s leadership? We call this operating structure the “network of teams.”

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