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The Guttman team transforms an organization into a high-performing, horizontal entity by accelerating business teams. We change the game.
Principal
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Building horizontal, high-performance organizations—it’s Guttman’s passion and competitive advantage.
Associate Senior Consultant
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Imagine a team functioning like a board of directors—“us” focused, aligned, empowered, performance based. That’s what Guttman delivers.
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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Alignment is about creating a common framework in everything from strategy to roles to business relationships.
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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Accelerating performance means decelerating conflict and breaking down silos. Friction is the enemy of speed.
Associate Senior Consultant
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Empowerment requires trust, which assumes everyone is fully aligned and accountable for results.
Associate Senior Consultant
Featured Thinking
Articles & Publications
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Moving Mountains
Howard M. Guttman
Leadership Excellence
April, 2013
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March 2013 Guttman Insights
March, 2013
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Tough Talk Necessary, Says Author
Howard M. Guttman
Financial Review
December, 2012
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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 -- Campbell Soup
John Doumani, now managing director, Fonterra, Australia-New Zealand, summed up his experience with these skills when he was president, international for Campbell Soup:
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Mars Incorporated
When Paul Michaels became president of Mars Incorporated in 2004, he knew that the company needed to achieve far greater growth and financial return. But he faced internal organizational challenges every bit as daunting as those he faced in the marketplace.
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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...