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For over 25 years, Guttman has helped clients create high-performing, horizontal organizations and teams. We play for real.
Principal
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Accelerating performance means decelerating conflict, reducing decision cycle time, minimizing noise, and breaking down silos. Friction is the enemy of speed.
Associate Senior Consultant
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For Guttman consultants getting results is half the battle. How you get them is the other half.
Associate Senior Consultant
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In Guttman’s view, organizations are aligned when they are in sync both vertically and horizontally.
Associate Senior Consultant
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The tipping point for becoming a high-performance team is when peers hold peers—and the leader—accountable for results.
Associate Senior Consultant
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Empowerment puts a heavy burden on leaders, who must ensure that those held accountable for results are prepared to deliver them.
Associate Senior Consultant
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Guttman views leadership not as a title or position, but as a set of high-performing, organization-wide behaviors.
Associate Senior Consultant
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Horizontal organizations don’t just happen. They are counterintuitive and must be created, which is a central goal of Guttman’s consulting approach.
Associate Senior Consultant
Featured Thinking
Alignment for Top Performance: What It Is and How to Achieve Itsee all white papers
Articles & Publications
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September 2018 Guttman Insights
Howard M. Guttman
September, 2018
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March 2018 Guttman Insights
Howard M. Guttman
March, 2018
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November 2017 Guttman Insights
Howard M. Guttman
November, 2017
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Creating a Team of Leaders
Often, Guttman is retained by clients to coach not just individual executives, but an entire team, as it strives to reach high performance. In the case of Redken USA, then-SVP Patrick Parenty brought us in to align his team.
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Managing Conflict/Influencing -- Ricola, U.S.
To meet the challenges of business growth in a tough market, William D. Higgins, president of Ricola U.S., and his team worked with Guttman, used a phased approach to
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Chubb Group of Insurance Companies
James P. Knight is global chief information officer and executive vice president of Chubb Insurance Company, a top-ten global insurance organization that provides a range
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Are You a High-Performance Leader?
How well do you stack up against our criteria for high-performance leadership? Take the following brief quiz to find out. Answer yes, no, or I don’t know to each of the following questions...
