Remove Report Remove Talent Remove Turnaround
article thumbnail

How to Manage a More Experienced Direct Report

CaseInterview.com

One of the questions I get a lot from newer managers is: “How do I manage someone who is older and more experienced, knowledgeable, and talented than I am?” A good CEO hires people who are smarter, more experienced, and more talented in their respective functional areas than the CEO. Assign issues to direct reports.

Report 105
article thumbnail

When Is Teamwork Really Necessary?

Harvard Business

Most leaders assume that they need to foster teamwork among the people whom directly and indirectly report to them. Although his one-on-one meetings with these reports, which involved progress reviews, motivation, and coaching, were highly productive, his monthly team meetings weren’t. Caspar Benson/Getty Images.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Management Lessons from One Hospital's Dramatic Turnaround

Strategy+Business

The dramatic turnaround engineered by Grossman -- from $120 million in annual losses to consistent profits -- offers important lessons for any manager seeking to overcome chronic underperformance, and lessons are also to be found in the rapid growth in its physician network, a top 10 ranking from U.S.

article thumbnail

All Hail Medium-Term Planning

Harvard Business

The entire system of quarterly reporting has been regularly criticized but remains resolutely in place. There is, of course, nothing wrong with the openness and transparency that lies behind quarterly reporting. While the world of quarterly reports is the preserve of managers, the long term is the fiefdom of leaders.

article thumbnail

Management Process: Small Clues with Big Consequences

Kates Kesler

Recently, The Wall Street Journal reported on how Procter & Gamble’s CEO is under scrutiny by investors and the board for a stalling turnaround effort. For me, one of the most thought-provoking parts of this story was reported nearly at its end. P&G’s Stumbles Put CEO On Hot Seat for Turnaround.

article thumbnail

As Work Changes, Leadership Development Has to Keep Up

Harvard Business

IBM has been building a talent system that both aligns with and accelerates this phenomenon of the external disaggregation of work. How talent management is changing. Voser was impatient for a new experience which attracted him to ABB and there he learned a whole new level of turnaround leadership. Insight Center.

article thumbnail

The Consulting Value Proposition

Tom Spencer

Turnarounds. In an apparent attempt to stop McKinsey poaching key talent, AlixPartners sued its former employees (Eric Thompson, managing director of AlixPartners’ Hong Kong office, and Ivo Naumann, head of its Shanghai branch) on claims that they misappropriated trade secrets before they left the firm’s Asian operations.