Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

Companies that operate as a collection of silos commit the cardinal sin of underperforming relative to the resources they have invested. The result is slow and poor execution. Ditto for Nokia, where critics suggest an over-consensual culture and unclear accountability caused Nokia to miss the smart phone revolution.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

But the bad news is that they have to learn a new improvement approach — one that can conflict with others that have worked in the past. In 2009, Grainger's senior management team decided to reflect on their history with improvement initiatives before deploying a Lean-based continuous improvement system.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

And as for us, we had a reputation for poor customer service and dated floorplans. Hearing about Southwest's corporate culture inspired me to start reinventing ours. We launched a Culture Committee to help address the specific, emergency needs of our team. So we added more training and developed incentive programs.

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Underperforming Technical Team Culture LEAN Design 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Indeed there is a good deal of evidence that using such individual incentives actually creates self-interest, lowers trust, results in poor teamwork, and diminishes commitment. They must be consciously designed to your business’ values and cultural objectives. It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture.

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Engagement Company Underperforming Technical Team Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

HR policies and company culture often dictate when and how people move up in a company. For example, an employee who exceeds his targets but treats his team members poorly should not be rewarded in an organization that values teamwork. Talk to peers, team members, and people she manages. Principles to Remember.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Some of the worst corporate disasters of the past two decades were heralded by whistleblowers: Sherron Watkins raised the red flag internally at Enron, Cynthia Cooper let management know of major accounting problems at WorldCom, and Matthew Lee brought problems to his management team at Lehman Brothers. What this means.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Bertolini observed that many of his peers had been promising 15% earnings per share (EPS), even during the financial crisis of 2009. ” Bertolini and his team studied the industry and concluded that a reasonable target was no more than 6% EPS. The company’s stated purpose is to “help people walk through walls.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

It increased R&D spending from 7-8% of revenue before 2009 to 11-12% of revenue starting in 2010, and maximized the return on that increased investment. It has a more rigorous organization structure that divides responsibilities between the innovation team and development team, and strengthens management around the opportunity pipeline.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

You need to choose who to hire for the sales team, and how to continually develop sales team skills and knowledge. And you need to determine the goals, incentives, and sales culture that will motivate peak sales force effort levels and performance. Leaders invested to develop better measures of customer potential.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Since 2009 we have interviewed and surveyed 181 executives who run PE-owned companies, as well as eight to 15 people who work with each of these 181 executives (supervisors, board members, director reports, and others). Selectively developing top team members to accomplish the strategy. Too many CEOs fall short of these skills.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

When his son, Hayden, was diagnosed with the disease, in 2009, Lane was a product manager at GE Energy. ” Before long, Lane left GE to join medical device firm Medtronic and within months he was leading the engineering team commercializing an “adaptive cruise control” system to partially automate insulin delivery.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Corporate executives seek to inject “Silicon Valley DNA” into their cultures, and policy makers point to venture-funded entrepreneurship as a solution for all manner of problems. This is a dangerous mindset. While it can offer valuable lessons for other industries and other problems, the model is not universally applicable.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

Big-company corporate development departments dream of acquisitions that substantially boost revenue or bring assets that turbo-charge growth. Most midsize companies lack the breadth and depth of skilled corporate development professionals whose jobs are to source, make, and integrate acquisitions.

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Development Team Review Company Underperforming Technical Team Groups 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

How many times have you had a strategy meeting that gathered a smart, enthusiastic team to generate interesting ideas and debate their merits, yet after the meeting… nothing… much… happened? He was looking for an outside team to help Kuoni approach this question, but there were a few ground rules.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

There are some key areas in which people aren’t satisfied, specifically around growth and development opportunities and recognition. There’s a huge gulf in this area, and there are similar ones around training, development, and advancement. Leadership Managing people Organizational culture'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

They are partnering with an Office of New Urban Mechanics in Boston or in Philadelphia, co-developing products in San Francisco’s Entrepreneurship-in-Residence program, or deploying some of the more than $430 million invested into civic-tech in the last two years. Of course, that’s not all bad.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

Lafley and Bob McDonald worked as a team during the 2000s; when Lafley scored his major successes, McDonald was by his side as vice chairman and then COO. But with the culture still a bedrock of P&G''s success and endurance, it always seemed inevitable back then that the CEO successor would be an insider.

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MAY 12, 2017

That is the lesson learned at Lego — just in time,” says David Robertson, Professor of Practice teaching Innovation and Product Development at Wharton. Innovation is ingrained in its organizational culture. If you thought GameCube was bad, Wii U was worse. His book Brick by Brick is a must read.). Source: Business Insider.

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