Organizational Culture
The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution
The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution
by
Gary L. Neilson, Karla L. Martin and Elizabeth Powers
A
brilliant strategy, blockbuster product, or breakthrough technology can put you
on the competitive map, but only solid execution can keep you there. You have
to be able to deliver on your intent. Unfortunately, the majority of companies
aren’t very good at it, by their own admission. Over the past five years, we
have invited many thousands of employees (about 25% of whom came from executive
ranks) to complete an online assessment of their organizations’ capabilities, a
process that’s generated a database of 125,000 profiles representing more than
1,000 companies, government agencies, and not-for-profits in over 50 countries.
Employees at three out of every five companies rated their organization weak at
execution—that is, when asked if they agreed with the statement “Important
strategic and operational decisions are quickly translated into action,” the
majority answered no.
Execution
is the result of thousands of decisions made every day by employees acting
according to the information they have and their own self-interest. In our work
helping more than 250 companies learn to execute more effectively, we’ve
identified four fundamental building blocks executives can use to influence
those actions—clarifying decision rights, designing information flows, aligning
motivators, and making changes to structure. (For simplicity’s sake we refer to
them as decision rights, information, motivators, and structure.)
In
efforts to improve performance, most organizations go right to structural
measures because moving lines around the org chart seems the most obvious
solution and the changes are visible and concrete. Such steps generally reap
some short-term efficiencies quickly, but in so doing address only the symptoms
of dysfunction, not its root causes. Several years later, companies usually end
up in the same place they started. Structural change can and should be part of
the path to improved execution, but it’s best to think of it as the capstone,
not the cornerstone, of any organizational transformation. In fact, our
research shows that actions having to do with decision rights and information
are far more important—about twice as effective—as improvements made to the
other two building blocks.
Take,
for example, the case of a global consumer packaged-goods company that lurched
down the reorganization path in the early 1990s. (We have altered identifying
details in this and other cases that follow.) Disappointed with company
performance, senior management did what most companies were doing at that time:
They restructured. They eliminated some layers of management and broadened
spans of control. Management-staffing costs quickly fell by 18%. Eight years
later, however, it was déjà vu. The layers had crept back in, and spans
of control had once again narrowed. In addressing only structure, management
had attacked the visible symptoms of poor performance but not the underlying
cause—how people made decisions and how they were held accountable.
This
time, management looked beyond lines and boxes to the mechanics of how work got
done. Instead of searching for ways to strip out costs, they focused on
improving execution—and in the process discovered the true reasons for the
performance shortfall. Managers didn’t have a clear sense of their respective
roles and responsibilities. They did not intuitively understand which decisions
were theirs to make. Moreover, the link between performance and rewards was
weak. This was a company long on micromanaging and second-guessing, and short
on accountability. Middle managers spent 40% of their time justifying and
reporting upward or questioning the tactical decisions of their direct reports.
Armed
with this understanding, the company designed a new management model that
established who was accountable for what and made the connection between
performance and reward. For instance, the norm at this company, not unusual in
the industry, had been to promote people quickly, within 18 months to two
years, before they had a chance to see their initiatives through. As a result,
managers at every level kept doing their old jobs even after they had been
promoted, peering over the shoulders of the direct reports who were now in
charge of their projects and, all too frequently, taking over. Today, people
stay in their positions longer so they can follow through on their own
initiatives, and they’re still around when the fruits of their labors start to
kick in. What’s more, results from those initiatives continue to count in their
performance reviews for some time after they’ve been promoted, forcing managers
to live with the expectations they’d set in their previous jobs. As a
consequence, forecasting has become more accurate and reliable. These actions
did yield a structure with fewer layers and greater spans of control, but that
was a side effect, not the primary focus, of the changes.
The
Elements of Strong Execution
Our
conclusions arise out of decades of practical application and intensive
research. Nearly five years ago, we and our colleagues set out to gather
empirical data to identify the actions that were most effective in enabling an
organization to implement strategy. What particular ways of restructuring,
motivating, improving information flows, and clarifying decision rights
mattered the most? We started by drawing up a list of 17 traits, each
corresponding to one or more of the four building blocks we knew could enable
effective execution—traits like the free flow of information across
organizational boundaries or the degree to which senior leaders refrain from
getting involved in operating decisions. With these factors in mind, we
developed an online profiler that allows individuals to assess the execution
capabilities of their organizations. Over the next four years or so, we
collected data from many thousands of profiles, which in turn allowed us to
more precisely calibrate the impact of each trait on an organization’s ability
to execute. That allowed us to rank all 17 traits in order of their relative
influence.
Ranking
the traits makes clear how important decision rights and information are to
effective strategy execution. The first eight traits map directly to decision
rights and information. Only three of the 17 traits relate to structure, and
none of those ranks higher than 13th. We’ll walk through the top five traits
here.
1.
Everyone has a good idea of the decisions and actions for which he or she is
responsible.
In
companies strong on execution, 71% of individuals agree with this statement;
that figure drops to 32% in organizations weak on execution.
Blurring
of decision rights tends to occur as a company matures. Young organizations are
generally too busy getting things done to define roles and responsibilities
clearly at the outset. And why should they? In a small company, it’s not so difficult
to know what other people are up to. So for a time, things work out well
enough. As the company grows, however, executives come and go, bringing in with
them and taking away different expectations, and over time the approval process
gets ever more convoluted and murky. It becomes increasingly unclear where one
person’s accountability begins and another’s ends.
One
global consumer-durables company found this out the hard way. It was so rife
with people making competing and conflicting decisions that it was hard to find
anyone below the CEO who felt truly accountable for profitability. The company
was organized into 16 product divisions aggregated into three geographic
groups—North America, Europe, and International. Each of the divisions was
charged with reaching explicit performance targets, but functional staff at
corporate headquarters controlled spending targets—how R&D dollars were
allocated, for instance. Decisions made by divisional and geographic leaders
were routinely overridden by functional leaders. Overhead costs began to mount
as the divisions added staff to help them create bulletproof cases to challenge
corporate decisions.
Decisions
stalled while divisions negotiated with functions, each layer weighing in with
questions. Functional staffers in the divisions (financial analysts, for
example) often deferred to their higher-ups in corporate rather than their
division vice president, since functional leaders were responsible for rewards
and promotions. Only the CEO and his executive team had the discretion to
resolve disputes. All of these symptoms fed on one another and collectively
hampered execution—until a new CEO came in.
The
new chief executive chose to focus less on cost control and more on profitable
growth by redefining the divisions to focus on consumers. As part of the new
organizational model, the CEO designated accountability for profits
unambiguously to the divisions and also gave them the authority to draw on
functional activities to support their goals (as well as more control of the
budget). Corporate functional roles and decision rights were recast to better
support the divisions’ needs and also to build the cross-divisional links
necessary for developing the global capabilities of the business as a whole.
For the most part, the functional leaders understood the market realities—and
that change entailed some adjustments to the operating model of the business. It
helped that the CEO brought them into the organizational redesign process, so
that the new model wasn’t something imposed on them as much as it was something
they engaged in and built together.
2.
Important information about the competitive environment gets to headquarters
quickly.
On
average, 77% of individuals in strong-execution organizations agree with this
statement, whereas only 45% of those in weak-execution organizations do.
Headquarters
can serve a powerful function in identifying patterns and promulgating best
practices throughout business segments and geographic regions. But it can play
this coordinating role only if it has accurate and up-to-date market
intelligence. Otherwise, it will tend to impose its own agenda and policies
rather than defer to operations that are much closer to the customer.
Consider
the case of heavy-equipment manufacturer Caterpillar.1 Today it
is a highly successful $45 billion global company, but a generation ago,
Caterpillar’s organization was so badly misaligned that its very existence was
threatened. Decision rights were hoarded at the top by functional general
offices located at headquarters in Peoria, Illinois, while much of the
information needed to make those decisions resided in the field with sales
managers. “It just took a long time to get decisions going up and down the
functional silos, and they really weren’t good business decisions; they were
more functional decisions,” noted one field executive. Current CEO Jim Owens,
then a managing director in Indonesia, told us that such information that did
make it to the top had been “whitewashed and varnished several times over along
the way.” Cut off from information about the external market, senior executives
focused on the organization’s internal workings, overanalyzing issues and
second-guessing decisions made at lower levels, costing the company
opportunities in fast-moving markets.
Pricing,
for example, was based on cost and determined not by market realities but by
the pricing general office in Peoria. Sales representatives across the world
lost sale after sale to Komatsu, whose competitive pricing consistently beat
Caterpillar’s. In 1982, the company posted the first annual loss in its
almost-60-year history. In 1983 and 1984, it lost $1 million a day, seven days
a week. By the end of 1984, Caterpillar had lost a billion dollars. By 1988,
then-CEO George Schaefer stood atop an entrenched bureaucracy that was, in his
words, “telling me what I wanted to hear, not what I needed to know.” So, he
convened a task force of “renegade” middle managers and tasked them with
charting Caterpillar’s future.
Ironically,
the way to ensure that the right information flowed to headquarters was to make
sure the right decisions were made much further down the organization. By
delegating operational responsibility to the people closer to the action, top
executives were free to focus on more global strategic issues. Accordingly, the
company reorganized into business units, making each accountable for its own P&L
statement. The functional general offices that had been all-powerful ceased to
exist, literally overnight. Their talent and expertise, including engineering,
pricing, and manufacturing, were parceled out to the new business units, which
could now design their own products, develop their own manufacturing processes
and schedules, and set their own prices. The move dramatically decentralized
decision rights, giving the units control over market decisions. The business
unit P&Ls were now measured consistently across the enterprise, as return
on assets became the universal measure of success. With this accurate,
up-to-date, and directly comparable information, senior decision makers at
headquarters could make smart strategic choices and trade-offs rather than use
outdated sales data to make ineffective, tactical marketing decisions.
Within
18 months, the company was working in the new model. “This was a revolution
that became a renaissance,” Owens recalls, “a spectacular transformation of a
kind of sluggish company into one that actually has entrepreneurial zeal. And
that transition was very quick because it was decisive and it was complete; it
was thorough; it was universal, worldwide, all at one time.”
3.
Once made, decisions are rarely second-guessed.
Whether
someone is second-guessing depends on your vantage point. A more senior and
broader enterprise perspective can add value to a decision, but managers up the
line may not be adding incremental value; instead, they may be stalling
progress by redoing their subordinates’ jobs while, in effect, shirking their
own. In our research, 71% of respondents in weak-execution companies thought
that decisions were being second-guessed, whereas only 45% of those from
strong-execution organizations felt that way.
Recently,
we worked with a global charitable organization dedicated to alleviating
poverty. It had a problem others might envy: It was suffering from the strain
brought on by a rapid growth in donations and a corresponding increase in the
depth and breadth of its program offerings. As you might expect, this nonprofit
was populated with people on a mission who took intense personal ownership of
projects. It did not reward the delegation of even the most mundane
administrative tasks. Country-level managers, for example, would personally
oversee copier repairs. Managers’ inability to delegate led to decision
paralysis and a lack of accountability as the organization grew.
Second-guessing was an art form. When there was doubt over who was empowered to
make a decision, the default was often to have a series of meetings in which no
decision was reached. When decisions were finally made, they had generally been
vetted by so many parties that no one person could be held accountable. An
effort to expedite decision-making through restructuring—by collocating key
leaders with subject-matter experts in newly established central and regional
centers of excellence—became instead another logjam. Key managers still weren’t
sure of their right to take advantage of these centers, so they didn’t.
Second-guessing was an art form: When decisions were finally made, they
had generally been vetted by so many parties that no one person could be held
accountable.
The
nonprofit’s management and directors went back to the drawing board. We worked
with them to design a decision-making map, a tool to help identify where
different types of decisions should be taken, and with it they clarified and
enhanced decision rights at all levels of management. All managers were then
actively encouraged to delegate standard operational tasks. Once people had a
clear idea of what decisions they should and should not be making, holding them
accountable for decisions felt fair. What’s more, now they could focus their
energies on the organization’s mission. Clarifying decision rights and
responsibilities also improved the organization’s ability to track individual
achievement, which helped it chart new and appealing career-advancement paths.
4.
Information flows freely across organizational boundaries.
When
information does not flow horizontally across different parts of the company,
units behave like silos, forfeiting economies of scale and the transfer of best
practices. Moreover, the organization as a whole loses the opportunity to
develop a cadre of up-and-coming managers well versed in all aspects of the
company’s operations. Our research indicates that only 21% of respondents from
weak-execution companies thought information flowed freely across
organizational boundaries whereas 55% of those from strong-execution firms did.
Since scores for even the strong companies are pretty low, though, this is an
issue that most companies can work on.
A
cautionary tale comes from a business-to-business company whose customer and
product teams failed to collaborate in serving a key segment: large,
cross-product customers. To manage relationships with important clients, the
company had established a customer-focused marketing group, which developed
customer outreach programs, innovative pricing models, and tailored promotions
and discounts. But this group issued no clear and consistent reports of its
initiatives and progress to the product units and had difficulty securing time
with the regular cross-unit management to discuss key performance issues. Each
product unit communicated and planned in its own way, and it took tremendous
energy for the customer group to understand the units’ various priorities and
tailor communications to each one. So the units were not aware, and had little
faith, that this new division was making constructive inroads into a key
customer segment. Conversely (and predictably), the customer team felt the
units paid only perfunctory attention to its plans and couldn’t get their
cooperation on issues critical to multiproduct customers, such as potential trade-offs
and volume discounts.
Historically,
this lack of collaboration hadn’t been a problem because the company had been
the dominant player in a high-margin market. But as the market became more
competitive, customers began to view the firm as unreliable and, generally, as
a difficult supplier, and they became increasingly reluctant to enter into
favorable relationships.
Once
the issues became clear, though, the solution wasn’t terribly complicated,
involving little more than getting the groups to talk to one another. The
customer division became responsible for issuing regular reports to the product
units showing performance against targets, by product and geographic region,
and for supplying a supporting root-cause analysis. A standing performance-management
meeting was placed on the schedule every quarter, creating a forum for
exchanging information face-to-face and discussing outstanding issues. These
moves bred the broader organizational trust required for collaboration.
5.
Field and line employees usually have the information they need to understand
the bottom-line impact of their day-to-day choices.
Rational
decisions are necessarily bounded by the information available to employees. If
managers don’t understand what it will cost to capture an incremental dollar in
revenue, they will always pursue the incremental revenue. They can hardly be
faulted, even if their decision is—in the light of full information—wrong. Our
research shows that 61% of individuals in strong-execution organizations agree
that field and line employees have the information they need to understand the
bottom-line impact of their decisions. This figure plummets to 28% in
weak-execution organizations.
We
saw this unhealthy dynamic play out at a large, diversified financial-services
client, which had been built through a series of successful mergers of small
regional banks. In combining operations, managers had chosen to separate
front-office bankers who sold loans from back-office support groups who did
risk assessments, placing each in a different reporting relationship and, in
many cases, in different locations. Unfortunately, they failed to institute the
necessary information and motivation links to ensure smooth operations. As a
result, each pursued different, and often competing, goals.
For
example, salespeople would routinely enter into highly customized one-off deals
with clients that cost the company more than they made in revenues. Sales did
not have a clear understanding of the cost and complexity implications of these
transactions. Without sufficient information, sales staff believed that the
back-end people were sabotaging their deals, while the support groups
considered the front-end people to be cowboys. At year’s end, when the data
were finally reconciled, management would bemoan the sharp increase in
operational costs, which often erased the profit from these transactions.
Executives
addressed this information misalignment by adopting a “smart customization”
approach to sales. They standardized the end-to-end processes used in the
majority of deals and allowed for customization only in select circumstances.
For these customized deals, they established clear back-office processes and analytical
support tools to arm salespeople with accurate information on the cost
implications of the proposed transactions. At the same time, they rolled out
common reporting standards and tools for both the front- and back-office
operations to ensure that each group had access to the same data and metrics
when making decisions. Once each side understood the business realities
confronted by the other, they cooperated more effectively, acting in the whole
company’s best interests—and there were no more year-end surprises.
Creating
a Transformation Program
The
four building blocks that managers can use to improve strategy
execution—decision rights, information, structure, and motivators—are
inextricably linked. Unclear decision rights not only paralyze decision making
but also impede information flow, divorce performance from rewards, and prompt
work-arounds that subvert formal reporting lines. Blocking information results
in poor decisions, limited career development, and a reinforcement of
structural silos. So what to do about it?
Since
each organization is different and faces a unique set of internal and external
variables, there is no universal answer to that question. The first step is to
identify the sources of the problem. In our work, we often begin by having a
company’s employees take our profiling survey and consolidating the results.
The more people in the organization who take the survey, the better.
Once
executives understand their company’s areas of weakness, they can take any
number of actions. The exhibit, “Mapping Improvements to the Building Blocks:
Some Sample Tactics” shows 15 possible steps that can have an impact on
performance. (The options listed represent only a sampling of the dozens of
choices managers might make.) All of these actions are geared toward
strengthening one or more of the 17 traits. For example, if you were to take
steps to “clarify and streamline decision making” you could potentially
strengthen two traits: “Everyone has a good idea of the decisions and actions
for which he or she is responsible,” and “Once made, decisions are rarely
second-guessed.”
You
certainly wouldn’t want to put 15 initiatives in a single transformation
program. Most organizations don’t have the managerial capacity or
organizational appetite to take on more than five or six at a time. And as
we’ve stressed, you should first take steps to address decision rights and
information, and then design the necessary changes to motivators and structure
to support the new design.
To help companies construct an improvement program with the greatest
impact, we’ve developed an organizational-change simulator.
To
help companies understand their shortcomings and construct the improvement
program that will have the greatest impact, we have developed an
organizational-change simulator. This interactive tool accompanies the
profiler, allowing you to try out different elements of a change program
virtually, to see which ones will best target your company’s particular area of
weakness.
To
get a sense of the process from beginning to end—from taking the diagnostic
profiler, to formulating your strategy, to launching your organizational
transformation—consider the experience of a leading insurance company we’ll
call Goodward Insurance. Goodward was a successful company with strong capital
reserves and steady revenue and customer growth. Still, its leadership wanted
to further enhance execution to deliver on an ambitious five-year strategic
agenda that included aggressive targets in customer growth, revenue increases,
and cost reduction, which would require a new level of teamwork. While there
were pockets of cross-unit collaboration within the company, it was far more
common for each unit to focus on its own goals, making it difficult to spare
resources to support another unit’s goals. In many cases there was little
incentive to do so anyway: Unit A’s goals might require the involvement of Unit
B to succeed, but Unit B’s goals might not include supporting Unit A’s effort.
The
company had initiated a number of enterprise wide projects over the years,
which had been completed on time and on budget, but these often had to be
reworked because stakeholder needs hadn’t been sufficiently taken into account.
After launching a shared-services center, for example, the company had to
revisit its operating model and processes when units began hiring shadow staff
to focus on priority work that the center wouldn’t expedite. The center might
decide what technology applications, for instance, to develop on its own rather
than set priorities according to what was most important to the organization.
In
a similar way, major product launches were hindered by insufficient
coordination among departments. The marketing department would develop new
coverage options without asking the claims-processing group whether it had the
ability to process the claims. Since it didn’t, processors had to create
expensive manual work-arounds when the new kinds of claims started pouring in.
Nor did marketing ask the actuarial department how these products would affect
the risk profile and reimbursement expenses of the company, and for some of the
new products, costs did indeed increase.
To
identify the greatest barriers to building a stronger execution culture,
Goodward Insurance gave the diagnostic survey to all of its 7,000-plus
employees and compared the organization’s scores on the 17 traits with those
from strong-execution companies. Numerous previous surveys
(employee-satisfaction, among others) had elicited qualitative comments
identifying the barriers to execution excellence. But the diagnostic survey
gave the company quantifiable data that it could analyze by group and by management
level to determine which barriers were most hindering the people actually
charged with execution. As it turned out, middle management was far more
pessimistic than the top executives in their assessment of the organization’s
execution ability. Their input became especially critical to the change agenda
ultimately adopted.
Through
the survey, Goodward Insurance uncovered impediments to execution in three of
the most influential organizational traits:
•
Information did not flow freely across organizational boundaries. Sharing information was never
one of Goodward’s hallmarks, but managers had always dismissed the mounting
anecdotal evidence of poor cross-divisional information flow as “some other
group’s problem.” The organizational diagnostic data, however, exposed such
plausible deniability as an inadequate excuse. In fact, when the CEO reviewed
the profiler results with his direct reports, he held up the chart on
cross-group information flows and declared, “We’ve been discussing this problem
for several years, and yet you always say that it’s so-and-so’s problem, not
mine. Sixty-seven percent of [our] respondents said that they do not think
information flows freely across divisions. This is not so-and-so’s problem—it’s
our problem. You just don’t get results that low [unless it comes] from
everywhere. We are all on the hook for fixing this.”
Contributing
to this lack of horizontal information flow was a dearth of lateral promotions.
Because Goodward had always promoted up rather than over and up, most middle
and senior managers remained within a single group. They were not adequately
apprised of the activities of the other groups, nor did they have a network of
contacts across the organization.
•
Important information about the competitive environment did not get to
headquarters quickly. The
diagnostic data and subsequent surveys and interviews with middle management
revealed that the wrong information was moving up the org chart. Mundane
day-to-day decisions were escalated to the executive level—the top team had to
approve midlevel hiring decisions, for instance, and bonuses of $1,000—limiting
Goodward’s agility in responding to competitors’ moves, customers’ needs, and
changes in the broader marketplace. Meanwhile, more important information was
so heavily filtered as it moved up the hierarchy that it was all but worthless
for rendering key verdicts. Even if lower-level managers knew that a certain
project could never work for highly valid reasons, they would not communicate
that dim view to the top team. Nonstarters not only started, they kept going.
For instance, the company had a project under way to create new incentives for
its brokers. Even though this approach had been previously tried without
success, no one spoke up in meetings or stopped the project because it was a
priority for one of the top-team members.
•
No one had a good idea of the decisions and actions for which he or she was
responsible. The
general lack of information flow extended to decision rights, as few managers
understood where their authority ended and another’s began. Accountability even
for day-to-day decisions was unclear, and managers did not know whom to ask for
clarification. Naturally, confusion over decision rights led to
second-guessing. Fifty-five percent of respondents felt that decisions were
regularly second-guessed at Goodward.
To
Goodward’s credit, its top executives immediately responded to the results of
the diagnostic by launching a change program targeted at all three problem
areas. The program integrated early, often symbolic, changes with longer-term
initiatives, in an effort to build momentum and galvanize participation and
ownership. Recognizing that a passive-aggressive attitude toward people
perceived to be in power solely as a result of their position in the hierarchy
was hindering information flow, they took immediate steps to signal their
intention to create a more informal and open culture. One symbolic change: the
seating at management meetings was rearranged. The top executives used to sit
in a separate section, the physical space between them and the rest of the room
fraught with symbolism. Now they intermingled, making themselves more
accessible and encouraging people to share information informally. Regular
brown-bag lunches were established with members of the C-suite, where people
had a chance to discuss the overall culture-change initiative, decision rights,
new mechanisms for communicating across the units, and so forth. Seating at
these events was highly choreographed to ensure that a mix of units was represented
at each table. Icebreaker activities were designed to encourage individuals to
learn about other units’ work.
Meanwhile,
senior managers commenced the real work of remedying issues relating to
information flows and decision rights. They assessed their own informal
networks to understand how people making key decisions got their information,
and they identified critical gaps. The outcome was a new framework for making
important decisions that clearly specifies who owns each decision, who must
provide input, who is ultimately accountable for the results, and how results
are defined. Other longer-term initiatives include:
- Pushing certain decisions down into the organization to better align decision rights with the best available information. Most hiring and bonus decisions, for instance, have been delegated to immediate managers, so long as they are within preestablished boundaries relating to numbers hired and salary levels. Being clear about who needs what information is encouraging cross-group dialogue.
- Identifying and eliminating duplicative committees.
- Pushing metrics and scorecards down to the group level, so that rather than focus on solving the mystery of who caused a problem, management can get right to the root cause of why the problem occurred. A well-designed scorecard captures not only outcomes (like sales volume or revenue) but also leading indicators of those outcomes (such as the number of customer calls or completed customer plans). As a result, the focus of management conversations has shifted from trying to explain the past to charting the future—anticipating and preventing problems.
- Making the planning process more inclusive. Groups are explicitly mapping out the ways their initiatives depend on and affect one another; shared group goals are assigned accordingly.
- Enhancing the middle management career path to emphasize the importance of lateral moves to career advancement.
Execution
is a notorious and perennial challenge. Even at the companies that are best at
it—what we call “resilient organizations”—just two-thirds of employees agree
that important strategic and operational decisions are quickly translated into
action. As long as companies continue to attack their execution problems
primarily or solely with structural or motivational initiatives, they will
continue to fail. As we’ve seen, they may enjoy short-term results, but they
will inevitably slip back into old habits because they won’t have addressed the
root causes of failure. Such failures can almost always be fixed by ensuring
that people truly understand what they are responsible for and who makes which
decisions—and then giving them the information they need to fulfill their
responsibilities. With these two building blocks in place, structural and
motivational elements will follow.
1.
The details for this example have been taken from Gary L. Neilson and Bruce A.
Pasternack, Results: Keep What’s Good, Fix What’s Wrong, and Unlock
Great Performance (Random House, 2005).
Source: Harvard Business Review
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- http://medinacasabella.blogspot.com.ar/2016/04/gestion-del-cambio-2016-2017-curso.html
- Curso Taller de LIDERAZGO TRANSFORMACIONAL para la Toma de Decisiones 2016-2017:
- http://medinacasabella.blogspot.com.ar/2016/04/liderazgo-transformacional-2016-2017.html
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.·. Miguel Ángel MEDINA CASABELLA, MSM, MBA, SMHS .·.
Especialista en Management Estratégico, Gestión del Cambio e Inversiones
Representante de The George Washington University en Foros de LatAm desde 2001
Representante de The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences para los Países de LatAm desde 1996
Ex Director Académico y Profesor de Gestión del Cambio del HSML Program para LatAm en GWU School of Medicine & Health Sciences (Washington DC)
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