Tom Spencer

JUNE 21, 2021

S = “The number of M&A transactions within the wealth and asset management space doubled last year, driven specifically by players who want to grow their alternative investment capabilities. Conflict (C). Writing is something that I started practicing from day one of my first job and frankly I’m still learning to this day.

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 9, 2020

"Playing small" is making choices that put a lid on your true potential. It's the part of you that wants to protect your comfort, security and validation in the short-term at the expense of what is possible in the long-term. Your ideas. Your expertise. I get how lonely it can be to run your own business, without colleagues to bounce ideas with.

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2017

It works for two to six players. Summary: Go around the circle of players and each person adds a letter to a spoken string, striving to not be the person who actually makes the string of letters into a word. Players go one at a time, in order. When each player has taken his or her turn, begin again with the first player.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 20, 2023

But the expectations and needs of C-suite buyers are higher and different from other stakeholders. Three Essential Things to Know Sales management training experts know that if you can sell directly to C-level executives, and do it right, your chance of closing bigger deals faster improves dramatically.

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Peter Stark

JANUARY 17, 2023

Strong Individual Contributors: Individually, team players are technically competent and can produce the results they need without much reliance on other members of the team. We commonly get asked what it takes to have a great team? It is a great question. The lack of communication leads to a lack of trust.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 9, 2015

OC&C STRATEGY CONSULTANTS INTERVIEWS & CULTURE . Today we continue our firm profile series with an in-depth review of OC&C Strategy Consultants. Known for its incredible family-style and entrepreneurial culture, relaxed work style, and long retention of employees, OC&C competes not only on strategy but also on culture.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

This is probably ok for the B and C players out there, since they can just coast by and hope the money never runs out, but it sucks for those of us who actually get s**t done. , and even Ms. The first thing you notice when you move to a smaller firm is how much more freedom everyone has. No process, no approvals, no problems, right?

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BCG

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Players everywhere are facing increasing competition, declining revenues, surging regulatory costs, spiking loan losses, and rising capital requirements. Report Monday, December 12, 2016. Corporate banking is a tough business. But not everyone is being dragged down.

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Confessions of a Consultant

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

“Here we go again” Every now and then a new word or phrase comes into common usage and gets plugged so much, that you begin to hate it – like an overplayed Christy Moore track that makes you wish you were deaf. One current phrase in vogue is ‘socialise’ as in: “We need to socialise this idea.” This curmudgeonly stance (look it up!)

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Harvard Business

MAY 26, 2016

These lessons deservedly extend beyond dugouts and diamonds into C-suites and boardrooms. “One of the keys is how to convey the insights to the players and the intermediaries in a way they’d appreciate them,” Lindbergh observed. Even if you loathe baseball, it’s a terrific yarn. It wasn’t.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Players” have more energy and know that they can rely on their team mates to perform. Employees Expect Purpose Unlike the past, employees today expect their employers to design jobs that help create a sense of personal and professional purpose. So, the question is how you define “meaning at work.”. Your role as leader is to help make it so.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

INTI OCON/Getty Images. When Vontae Davis walked off the field at halftime, the Buffalo Bills were down 28-6 to the Los Angeles Chargers. But instead of huddling with teammates, the Bills cornerback quit football entirely, right then and there. ” But some disagreed, saying Davis was “ a goddamn working class hero.”

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1 to 1

OCTOBER 1, 2013

But, as mobile technology becomes an undeniable player across industries, research predicts that CMOs will soon spend more on IT than the CIO, causing much tension throughout the enterprise. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog. 1to1Media.com/weblog.

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BCG

APRIL 7, 2016

The high-risk, high-reward world of biopharma and medtech has generated a great deal of optimism on Wall Street—and behind-the-scenes financial engineering in the C suite. In addition, many management teams consolidated smaller players or acquired products to cut costs and offset revenue lost to generics. per year. in value per year.

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LSA Global

MARCH 18, 2019

Sadly, IBM found that less than 10% of well formulated strategies are successfully executed. When it comes to successful strategy execution, how can you beat the odds? We define successful strategy execution as a corporate strategy that: Outlines clear and compelling choices about where to play and what actions to take. Too Complex. Too Untethered.

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 31, 2024

I love music so much that I married music; my wife serves as a talented and award-winning music teacher in a middle school in Chicago’s suburbs. We met in high school band and courted while we both worked at a music store. All of our kids play music, and everyone has their own unique playlists. I quit smoking in 2011.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 22, 2017

In his words “[c]rude oil and its derivatives … have been running [the world] during the last wave of the industrial revolution. One of the most important things to remember about a digital currency is that it is just a way of transferring ownership and assets electronically. That said, it is a decent place to start.

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2017

Let’s look at how a couple of job hunters I’ve worked with, an administrative assistant and a C-suite executive, translated their notes into effective résumés. You’re ready to make a career move, up to a higher level or into a different industry or an entirely new field. Here’s how.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

In So I Married an Axe Murderer , a wacky 1990’s parody, a police officer named Tony confides to his captain, “I’m having doubts about being a cop. You know, it’s not like how it is on TV. All I do all day is fill out forms and paperwork.” Tony is not alone. Every job contains some unglamorous grunt work.

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Consultant Ninja

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

At its core, business intelligence has a 4 step value stream: a) Get lots of data b) Manipulate it c) Identify compelling insights d) Display the insights in a format that helps others understand them Ironically, a Deloitte guy who writes about BI for a living missed the 4th step in a big way(and admits to it). skip to main | skip to sidebar.

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Peter Stark

APRIL 28, 2019

A C-Level leader asked me once, “Why would you share the results with the employees. The only person who is usually surprised by the severity of the results is the C-Level leader. Each of the five highly technically skilled team members who shared with us they were seeking employment with another company earned over $100,000 a year.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2017

Neasden Control Centre for HBR. Many of the most successful people had to fight tooth and nail for opportunities to learn new skills and advance up the corporate ladder. That’s often because what they wanted to learn and achieve wasn’t in sync with what their bosses wanted for them. You’re not a data scientist. Here’s how.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

For the 2016–2017 season, thousands of constraints needed to be taken into account related to travel, player fatigue, ticket revenue, arena availability, and three major television networks. Many conversations about data and analytics (D&A) start by focusing on technology. Insight Center. Putting Data to Work.

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Henman Performance Executive

APRIL 26, 2012

To give a frame of reference, most successful professional football players are big guys, but beyond a certain weight, you don’t see increased skill or excellence. Like the size of NFL players, intelligence has a threshold. Executive blog Contact Us. Are You Smarter Than a Termite? by Linda Henman on April 26, 2012.

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Melissa Agnes

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

ReputationDefender’s new offering, ReputationGrower, offers a strategic and proactive way to help professionals—from solopreneurs to C-suite executives and everyone in between—ensure that their online reputation : Properly represents them; and Is strong enough to sustain negative online attention in the event of an online attack.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

paul Garbett for HBR. A global pharmaceutical company was about to lose the strategic advantage of several blockbuster drugs coming off patent. In five years, the revenue shortfall would be significant. The hope was that the diversity of brainpower and perspectives would yield imaginative ways to outgrow the shortfall.

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2016

We have all seen or heard of high-profile cases where M&A deals didn’t work out. AOL–Time Warner, HP-Compaq, Quaker-Snapple — these are just some of the big ones. An analysis of 2,500 such deals by our firm shows that more than 60% of them destroy shareholder value. This, in turn, leads bidders to overpay.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 12, 2016

Everyone loves it when a small competitor takes on a Goliath and wins. To understand how brands can accomplish that (and do so profitably), we’ve examined various streams of research and identified a few moves that are nicely illustrated by Leicester City FC’s rise to the top of the English Premier League (EPL) last season.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Still, Schnatter’s comments about NFL players who knelt during the national anthem and the accusation that he used a racist word in a conference call drove down the company’s sales and its stock price. But they can also be dangerous. And then all each company had to deal with expensive, distracting problems their star created.

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Harvard Business

MAY 14, 2018

David Ryder/Stringer/Getty Images. Amazon came under fire last week after its board opposed a shareholder proposal to increase the diversity of the board. ” Currently, all 10 of the directors on Amazon’s board are white, and seven are men. First, this suggestion misinterprets my findings with coauthors David Hekman and Elsa Chan in HBR.

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Management Consulted

JUNE 12, 2016

Combining the strengths of these two entities enables the firm to advise C-suite and organizational leaders on full-scale solutions to a variety of problems. In the subsequent two decades, EY became a major player in the implementation consulting game, becoming known as one of the Big 4 alongside Deloitte, KPMG, and PwC. PARTHENON-EY.

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Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2017

But that story seems at odds with the view from the C-suite. In the 1980s and 1990s, Blockbuster modernized the movie rental business. It offered far more movies than its smaller rivals, used computers to better manage that inventory, and designed its stores to be bright and family friendly. Instead, he argues, the U.S.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

2 key players were former Booz Allen Hamilton partners, Alex Oliver and Bill Wyman, who creatively (or not so much) named the firm after themselves. Does Oliver Wyman really offer a “different kind of consulting”? Today, we are digging into a firm that prides itself on its entrepreneurial spirit. KEY STATS FOR OLIVER WYMAN.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2017

At some point in your career, even if you’re not a salesperson, you’re going to have to sell something — whether it’s your idea , your team, or yourself. So how can you improve your sales skills, especially if you don’t pitch people often? What should you focus on first? And what should you do if you lose a sale?

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 9, 2019

I applied to nine firms, and I had networked heavily with the four major players here in Germany, which are McKinsey, BCG, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants (which are huge here!), I additionally applied to Booz, AT Kearney, Oliver Wyman, Siemens Management Consulting, and OC&C. And here is what happened.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

In pairs, we were throwing kicks and punches at each other, with the kickboxing instructor yelling, “C’mon, harder!” “Take a football player. “Take a football player. For many in today’s knowledge economy, this feeling is elusive. Here, all are equal before the law of the squat rack.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Those who excel on these criteria are your A players, your outstanding performers. The strong but not exceptional contributors are your B players. And the few who fall below expectations on one or more of these are your C players. And the few who fall below expectations on one or more of these are your C players.

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