Leadership Alignment
The Five Stages of Building Alignment
Prior to (and during) strategy execution, creating alignment is crucial to the realization of your strategy. Given how often alignment breaks down, what it really…
Leveraging Core Values Improves Business Performance
A multi-national food products company looks for a way to turn its values into principles for action, convinced those values could spur enterprise-wide transformation and…
How Do You Embed Breakthrough Performance? Stop Agreeing Start Aligning
In this kickoff to our 12-part series on the qualities of high-performing teams, we examine how a team’s search for ‘agreement’ derails breakthrough performance. Wasted…
Completion Is As Important As Starting
“We knew a project ended when it stopped showing up on our agenda.” Launches, kick-offs, kick-starts, startups, jump-starts, ramp-ups, rollouts…I could go on. What we…
Innovation and Collaboration in Product Development With a Global Tire Manufacturer
The Challenge The vice president of product development for the Americas’ division of a major global tire manufacturer was committed to creating a world-class, innovative…
Leadership Development Lab Strengthens Fragmented Organization
A research & development division of a global food company lacked alignment. They needed to develop a unified vision to move out of a silo-ed…
Entertainment Company President Transforms Leadership Team Generating Millions in Profits
An entertainment industry company President aimed to strengthen his senior management team, which experienced diffused leadership with a very directive President, and Vice Presidents who…
Increased Projects in R&D Pipeline
The Vice President of Research and Development for a home products company was committed to a breakthrough in value that the company received from R&D.…
Significant Cost Reduction in Cost of Goods Sold
The SVP of supply chain for a home products company indicated that the leadership group for the supply chain neither operated as a team nor…
A Food Service Company Retains Critical Customer
A food service company with only one customer providing all its business had a contract that was due to expire within one year. Unfortunately, the…
Disjointed Organization Forms an Aligned Executive Leadership Team (ELT) to Improve Profits
A division within a large logistics services company was not turning a profit and had unreliable performance. Upon being promoted, the new CEO complained that…
Building Alignment and Elevating Personal Responsibility
A large pharmaceutical company needed to bring together a new team within a key business unit. This team was tasked with developing a diverse collection…
