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Why CEO’s Hire Consultants and Coaches: The REAL Value They Bring with Brad Rex

Consulting Matters

Today, Brad Rex shares the real reasons why executives hire consultants and coaches. Tune in to hear Brad's incredible journey and get the real reasons why executives hire consultants. He talks about his exciting career journey, which started at the Naval Academy, then to British Petroleum, and finally to Disney.

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6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team

Rick Conlow

3 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team. The following six proven turnaround tactics come from my consulting practice. If employees could operate as a well – oiled machine without training and coaching, you would not be in the mess you are in. These kinds of actions can swiftly turnaround a failing team.

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6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team

Rick Conlow

3 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team. The following six proven turnaround tactics come from my consulting practice. If employees could operate as a well – oiled machine without training and coaching, you would not be in the mess you are in. These kinds of actions can swiftly turnaround a failing team.

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4 Types of Consulting Firms

Tom Spencer

If you’re trying to get into consulting, it can be more than a little confusing trying to understand the various types of firms and their practices. In this post, you will learn about the 4 major types of consulting and the firms that are typically associated with them. Strategy Consulting. Implementation Consulting.

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A Bread and Butter Method for Identifying the Right Organizational Structure

Steve Shu Consulting

Suppose you are trying to design a company whose strategy is to provide broadly accessible, lower-cost, optical glasses to customers within quick turnaround times of one hour. Turnaround times might be much longer. Consider a very stylized example. It may also require a wider geographic structure.

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The Perils of Internal Disruption (Part 2)

Markovitz Consulting

But when it comes to internal operations at least, disruption is often both bad for business and for employees, because it causes unevenness in work. The former president of Wiremold, Art Byrne, explains in his book The Lean Turnaround that he eliminated volume discounts and incentives for sales to book the largest possible orders.

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Student Consulting ? Does it deliver?

Tom Spencer

Student consultants certainly mean well: for their CVs if not the organisations they consult to. But whether student consulting organisations deliver for clients or the students who take part is questionable. I finish with some questions prospective student consultants should ask themselves before starting any project.