2 Posts found for Author: Michael Beer

Organizations can become obsessed with short-term results. But Harvard Business School professor emeritus Michael Beer believes that the intense focus on quarterly results can impair an organization’s ability to create long-term value both for investors and society. By asking about a longer time horizon, you can encourage someone to contemplate issues and unintended consequences that could result from trying only to satisfy one group of … [ Read more ]

Author: Michael Beer | Source: “Lead by Asking” | Original Publication: strategy+business | Subject: Management

• Rely on attrition to right size.
• Use redeployment and make layoffs a last resort. Hewlett Packard used this strategy extensively throughout the 1980s as it faced intensified competition. Employees were given three months to find a job in HP and were helped to do so. If they could not find an equivalent level job, they were offered a lower level job. If they preferred

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Author: Michael Beer | Source: “Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times” | Original Publication: HBS Working Knowledge | Subjects: Human Resources, Management