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Mergers & Acquisitions: The Importance of Creating a Shared Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

Culture is acutely critical during notable changes, such as M&As, which offer an opportunity for a renewed start on culture. When two organizations combine through mergers and acquisitions for economic reasons, it is doubtful that the two cultures will remain precisely the same.

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies, 2016

Harvard Business

As the newly released 2016 Empathy Index demonstrates, empathy, which is about understanding our emotional impact on others and making change as a result, is more important to a successful business than it has ever been, correlating to growth, productivity, and earnings per employee. This year we added a carbon metric. Methodology.

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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Great leaders achieve great results and create great company cultures. While working with a large Forbes Top 25 Private Company, we quantified the value of leadership using internal key business metrics and various cognitive and behavioral leader assessments. References: Anderson, R., & & Adams, W. & Lord, R.

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Performance Improvement and the Evolution of Consulting

Effective Managers

According to the latest research from 2016, as much as 78% of the global management consulting spend is within the boundaries of North America and Europe. the outcome measures, which are culture, performance metrics and ultimately profit, the people measures – how well we use our people to execute our strategy and achieve our outcomes.

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Are You A Future-Ready Leader?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Selfless love cultivates an organizational culture where healthy and caring leader-follower relationships break down the adverse effects of our differences. It is when leaders use facts extracted from data and metrics to guide business decisions that support business goals rather than relying on experience, intuition, and stories alone.

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How Self-Care Became So Much Work

Harvard Business

It seems likely that the values driving us to be workaholics in the first place are also encouraging us to “optimize” ourselves by using metric-driven “hacks.” But it’s important to see how this ancient tradition is being commodified by our culture as a tool for improvement.

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3 Ways M&A Is Different When You’re Acquiring a Digital Company

Harvard Business

In March 2016, Thales purchased Vormetric, the growing cybersecurity firm, for $400 million, which was 5.7 In fact, by the end of December 2016, Thales traded at a 21.8 Indeed, integration of digital assets is a huge, thorny problem fraught with cultural issues. times Vormetric’s sales.

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