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Lattice Ways to Participate: Creating a Company Culture of Collaboration and Transparency
Benko, Cathleen; Anderson, MollyBook Chapter HBS-7012BC-EThe traditional corporate ladder is giving way to a new kind of organizational structure-the corporate lattice-in which success is no longer defined as a linear climb to the top, and rigid definitions of what work is, how it should be accomplished, and who gets to participate are being transformed. In this chapter, the authors examine how companies can enable broad-based, nonhierarchical forms of participation through the interrelated forces of c...Starting at €8.20
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Lattice Ways to Build Careers: An Operational Approach to Career Customization
Benko, Cathleen; Anderson, MollyBook Chapter HBS-7018BC-EThe changing world of work is dismantling the corporate ladder step by step. Tom Peters, the best-selling author of "In Search of Excellence," sums it up this way: "It's over. No more vertical. No more ladder. A career is now a checkerboard. Or even a maze." In this chapter, the authors explore how companies can redesign their talent practices through career enhancement and customization. They introduce the mass career customization (MCC) tool, w...Starting at €8.20
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The Individual's Guide to the Shifting Landscape: Charting Your Career Path Within the Corporate Lattice Structure
Benko, Cathleen; Anderson, MollyBook Chapter HBS-7019BC-EThe traditional corporate ladder is giving way to a new kind of organizational structure-the corporate lattice-in which success is no longer defined as a linear climb to the top, and rigid definitions of what work is, how it should be accomplished, and who gets to participate are being transformed. In this chapter, the authors explore the changing role each individual plays in directing his or her own lattice journey. Individuals need to treat th...Starting at €8.20
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From Ladder to Lattice: The New Workforce Imperative
Benko, Cathleen; Weisberg, AnneBook Chapter HBS-3881BC-ELeadership and People ManagementScaling the corporate ladder has been the enduring gold standard for personal success since organizational hierarchy was invented at the beginning of the industrial age. However, a confluence of market and demographic forces in the past twenty years has compressed hierarchies, shortened the ladder, and reduced the qualified pool of high-potential employees available to climb it. Another set of business and societal influences has reshaped the Ame...Starting at €8.20
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The Nontraditional Is the New Traditional: Six Trends that have Created a New Workforce Imperative
Benko, Cathleen; Weisberg, AnneBook Chapter HBS-3882BC-ELeadership and People ManagementWhy is here and now the time to acknowledge and respond to the notion that corporate structures are morphing from a ladder to a lattice construct? One reason is that six key trends are converging in ways that create an unprecedented workforce challenge for business executives. This convergence is creating sweeping changes in workforce composition, attitudes, and capabilities. This chapter dissects the six trends and illustrates how each is exacer...Starting at €8.20
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Cynthia Carroll at Anglo American (A)
Mukunda, Gautam; Mazzanti, Lisa; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-414019-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2007, Cynthia Carroll, the newly-appointed chief executive of mining giant Anglo American, was considering shutting down mines in South Africa for safety reasons, namely worker fatalities. No company had ever done so before. Carroll felt that operating a company whose goal was anything less than "zero harm" (meaning no fatalities or serious injuries) was unacceptable. As the first woman and non-South African to lead the century-old company, ma...Starting at €8.20
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Cynthia Carroll at Anglo American (B)
Mukunda, Gautam; Mazzanti, Lisa; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-414020-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2007, Cynthia Carroll, the newly-appointed chief executive of mining giant Anglo American, ordered the temporary shutdown of Anglo American Platinum's Rustenburg, South Africa mines in response to a spate of deaths at the operations. The case lays out Carroll's requirements of what had to be done before the Rustenburg mines could restart operations, including the implementation of a new safety program for tens of thousands of workers that call...Starting at €5.74
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Cynthia Carroll at Anglo American (C)
Mukunda, Gautam; Mazzanti, Lisa; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-414021-ELeadership and People ManagementWhen Cynthia Carroll, chief executive of Anglo American, ordered the shutdown of the company's Rustenburg, South Africa mines in the summer of 2007, it was just the first of many steps the company would take under her leadership to achieve zero harm. The case describes Carroll's approach to stakeholder relationships (i.e., relationships with the government and unions), how the shutdown was used as a platform to change the culture at Anglo America...Starting at €5.74
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Robert K. Steel at Wachovia (A)
Mukunda, Gautam; Hsieh, Nien-he; Lane, DavidCase HBS-418055-ELeadership and People ManagementIn September 2008, Robert Steel presided over the sale of Wachovia, a top U.S. bank, less than three months after becoming its CEO. Wachovia's exposure to risky home loans led depositors and creditors to flee the bank on Friday, September 26, after the FDIC seized and sold a smaller bank with similar exposure, whose collapse nonetheless made it the biggest bank failure in U.S. history. Faced with Wachovia's impending bankruptcy, the FDIC interven...Starting at €8.20
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Fresh to Table
Mukunda, Gautam; Holtom, Brooks C.Case HBS-917541-ELeadership and People ManagementAfter the contentious firing of an office manager, the leadership at Fresh to Table, a software-as-a-service provider for luxury hotels and restaurants, make an unpleasant discovery. While reviewing the office manager's internal electronic communications, company leaders discover that several key employees, including two that were recently promoted, had been spending substantial time on internal social media channels disparaging other employees, ...Starting at €8.20