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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

They operate in a bubble and do not attend the party. Local executives gave presentations to him on a stage in an auditorium setting. All lights were off except a spotlight on the presenting manager and the CEO’s reading light. A finance executive said this of the decades-old corporate attitude, “We are GM.

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Lessons Learned from a German EMBA

Tom Spencer

In the fall of 2015, after spending two years in a small town in the Ruhr Valley starting to learn German (I will appreciate Mark Twain’s perspective on the sprache so much better going forward), I moved to Frankfurt to begin my Executive MBA at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. Frankfurt itself is also a fascinating city.

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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

Management Consulted

The cons of investment banking – the long hours, the repetitive and unengaging nature of the work, the lack of non-finance exit opportunities – mattered far more to me than a 6-figure salary. This expertise may be as broad as “operations turnaround” and as specific as “benchmarking for insurance companies.”

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The cost of hiring a consultant for small business in 2023

Asamby Consulting

Operations Consultants Operations consultants look into your company and help you make it run smoothly. Finance Consultants Finance consultants for small business help you analyze the numbers your business is producing. They identify potential to improve results by looking at your numbers and comparing it to benchmarks.

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HR’s Role in Building High Performance Organizations

Confessions of a Consultant

Back in my GE days, the Finance Director was skeptical about the merits of the HR function which he labeled the ‘Health and Happiness Department.’ When there are big ‘presenting issues’ in an organization it’s relatively easy to ride in on a white horse, complete your diagnosis and ‘fix’ the place. Benchmarking.

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Show report: CX and EX inextricably linked, with empathy as the glue

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airline in 2022 by the Wall Street Journal , which scores airlines on seven operations and customer metrics. “We So often, we design something that works for HR or finance or technology and guess what? Presenters said business needs to bring humanity to the experience and that means acting on data intelligence with empathy.

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The 4 Types of Organizational Politics

Harvard Business

However, political behavior is also likely to be present, but not explicit, until it is too late. At the other end of this dimension is the broader context, where politics operates at the organizational level. They focus on the presenting issue rather than the unspoken ecosystem of habits and practices that remain unseen.