Get Lighthouse

JANUARY 5, 2024

Whether it's making sure your team members crush their sales numbers, or you build a dependable team that can tackle any engineering problem, make sure you're delivering the results that are needed to help your manager, department, and company look good. This, above all other things, shows that you're a leader. Are they aware of it?”

Manager 97

Manager Onboarding Culture Change Engineering 97

LSA Global

JANUARY 6, 2023

Any real workplace transformation will fall flat unless you include plans to shift mindsets, beliefs, and business practices — the basis for successful culture change. An adaptable organizational culture can be defined as one that is open and ready to shift ways of working, thinking, and behaving to succeed and thrive.

Culture Change 36

Culture Change Organizational Change Change Management Marketing 36

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2017

Recommendation engines (or recommenders ) force organizations to fundamentally rethink how to get greater value from their data while creating greater value for their customers. In my experience, legacy managements too frequently misunderstand recommenders’ role in driving innovation and cultural change.

Engineering 8

Engineering Digital Transformation User Experience Sales 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Inevitably, not all of the final pitches were winners but, to Facebook, the potential for uncovering groundbreaking innovations is worth pulling a couple hundred engineers away from their everyday tasks. Late-night thinkers enjoyed a 1AM meal to refuel. Hackathons are no longer just for coders. Ask the right question.

Banking 15

Banking Operations Culture Change Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Evaluation thus far suggests that the Charter has increased awareness of gender and other diversity issues, created numerical and financial incentives for change, and catalyzed structural and cultural changes, such as increased career support for female researchers. Re-thinking awards and promotions.

Diversity 14

Diversity Education Nonprofit Hospitality 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

My research has shown that there are ways for everyone — from the managers of sales teams, to executives in government agencies, to computer engineers, to florists, to coaches — to achieve professional success without always having to sacrifice the things that matter in their personal lives.

Nonprofit 15

Nonprofit Culture Change Engineering Government 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

We can have engineering work more closely with production. But the problem was, the culture needed to change outside the "Big Room" and very few cultural change efforts had been made since 1994. Immelt asked why production should be put in old factories in a union environment.

Operations 10

Operations Engineering Transportation Culture Change 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Company culture changes very slowly, so efforts to do an about-face are inevitably a waste of time and energy: Organizations either declare victory prematurely or, in frustration, abandon the attempt. You’re better off thinking of your cultural situation as an underpinning you’ll have to work with over time.

Energy 10

Energy Change Management Operations Culture Change 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

On a separate track, he launched the device and content ecosystem, starting with iPod and iTunes, that would become the company’s new growth engine. For new growth areas that now make up 47% of sales, it moved into industrial solutions and digital services, creating systems such as internet-connected elevators.

Revenue 15

Revenue Metrics Accounts Travel 15

Get Lighthouse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Netflix has developed their own "Chaos Monkey" to randomly take down some of their servers to ensure their engineers build perfect redundancy, so they never have a failure impact customers. Meanwhile, Zenefits literally doubled their sales plan halfway through the year just to see how the thought exercise might push them (and it worked!).

Manager 111

Manager Culture Change Revenue Sales 111

Peter Winick

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

He discusses his “GREAT” leadership framework and its relevance in a world shaped by technological disruption and cultural change. It’s easy to say, hey, I’ve got this great sales account, whatever. Job, by the way, was 100% commissioned sales. It’s easy to be comfortable. But you know what?

Accounts 177

Accounts Media Sales Sales 177

Kotter Inc.

JANUARY 2, 2025

But the merger floundered from the start: It would only return value through deep integration, but the engineers and brand teams werent involved in helping to bridge the cultural divide. Seeking to use the change to spark new ideas, leaders encouraged everyone to get involved in the integration. The deal was eventually undone.

Reorganization 52

Reorganization Operations Organizational Change Scaling 52