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Change leaders can avoid this pitfall when cutting costs

Avoid This Pitfall When Cutting Costs

Looking to reduce costs during your organization redesign? Consider changing how the work is done and then align staffing levels to match the work.

Executives must modify the footprints of their organizations in these changing times

Modifying Your Footprint for Changing Times

To keep pace with changing times, leaders must re-think the entire footprint of how their organizations are structured and how they operate.

Effective change leadership requires decisiveness

In Praise of Decisiveness: Change Leadership Techniques to Conquer Indecision

Many executives struggle with making decisions in their business leadership roles. Consider these four questions when faced with a significant decision.

Differentiation through corporate strategy.

Differentiation Through Corporate Strategy

Corporate strategy can be a point of differentiation. Look at your business as you would an investment portfolio and determine how to allocate resources in ways that create the greatest returns.

A word of caution when adjusting spans and layers.

Spans and Layers: A Word of Caution

These three steps can help leaders get the most out of spans and layers adjustments. and make sure a span and layer analysis doesn’t lead to unintended consequences.

Eliminate anti-metrics that disrupt organizational performance and focus on the "metrics that matter".

Metrics that Matter: Eliminating “Anti-Metrics” That Disrupt Organizational Performance

Aligning metrics with organizational strategy and desired behaviors helps you achieve optimal results. Make sure “anti-metrics” are not interfering with organizational success.

Futurism and understanding emerging business trends

Futurism: Understanding Emerging Business Trends

Being a futurist means paying attention to new patterns and trends and developing possible scenarios for the future. What is the best way to build the future smartly, thoughtfully, and effectively?

What is Organizational Alignment?

What is Organizational Alignment & How Can it Support Strategic Goals?

The best organizations are well-oiled machines. Using the cube model as an alignment tool can keep your business running at optimal efficiency and productivity.

Strategic Mindedness - Seeing the Forest Through The Trees

Strategic Mindedness: Can You See the Forest Through the Trees?

Six ways strategic mindedness or acting and thinking strategically, will improve your business outcomes and strengthen your leadership abilities

Business leaders discuss the difference between problem solving and decision making

The Difference Between Problem Solving and Decision Making

An explanation of the differences between problem solving and decision making, and when each should respectively be applied.