Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 19, 2018

To win business and deliver results - all consultants MUST cultivate their political savvy. While we may think that executives hire consultants for economic reasons - the reality is that more often that not, we're brought in for political reasons. Politics is not necessarily a bad thing. DEFINING THE REAL CORPORATE CULTURE.

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2023

Research conducted by nonprofit organization JUST Capital highlights the importance of public opinion in determining corporate behaviors. JUST Capital’s methodology involves gathering public input through focus groups and surveys to define and assess justness in corporate behavior.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2023

In today’s world a host of issues are eating away at our connections with each other: Lack of focus, high-speed interactions, political polarization seeping into professional interactions, lack of trust.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Skill #2: Political Savvy. In episode 52 – I went over the secrets to consulting excellence and mentioned that accepting politics is one of the secrets. It's not enough to accept politics; you have to master your ability to navigate politics if you're going to be effective in influencing executives.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In June 2021 at the annual G7 summit in Cornwall, major western powers committed themselves to the idea of a global minimum corporate tax. The first one seeks to implement a principle for taxation of corporate revenues based on location of sale rather than place of manufacturing. The BEPS initiative has two main pillars.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The most prevalent case is when goods or services are being exchanged between different departments of the same corporation, or subsidiaries belonging to the same holding company. For multinational corporations operating in multiple jurisdictions and tax regimes, however, transfer pricing offers an opportunity for tax-optimisation.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 17, 2020

You don’t need masters’ degree or unique certifications to break into corporate consulting or coaching. Political Savvy. Recognizes and understands organizations as dynamic, political, economic, and social systems which have multiple goals. Knows how the various functions of a business work and relate to each other.

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Consulting Matters

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

More and more people want to leave corporate to start their own consulting or coaching businesses for so many reasons: They want control over their career, time, and earning power. If your marketing messages and strategies aren’t getting you in front of the corporate buyers you want, let’s work on this.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Do You Have a Broken Corporate Culture? If you think you have a broken corporate culture that is getting in the way of where you want to go, then this article is for you. Corporate Culture Defined Corporate culture, in its essence, is the collective expression of beliefs, values, behaviors, and team norms within an organization.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 6, 2018

I'll never forget the moment when I first fell in love with corporate politics. What I discovered through this experience is that politics when managed right isn't about power struggles with winners and losers. Overcoming understandable yet negative assumptions that you might have about corporate politics.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 1, 2018

“Whenever there are two people in the same room, there’s politics.”. One of my former professors made the argument that anytime there are two people in a room, there’s politics. Normally the term "corporate politics” has an enormously negative connotation. Politics = Bad. It’s politics in either case.

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Successful Independent Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2022

Sure, it sounds fabulous—the ability to be selective about the work you do, have a flexible schedule, escape office politics, make good money—but there are drawbacks. Corporate payment terms are typically “net 45” or longer. Being self-employed is hard, so go in with your eyes open. Being a self-employed solopreneur isn’t for everyone.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 14, 2022

This virtual political skills training session for NASA focused on Having Strategic Influence – Especially When the Stakes are High. 91% Job Relevance 94% Satisfaction 133% Knowledge Gain.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Discussion on management consultancy often reduces the clientele of strategy firms to multinational corporations. Although both private corporations and national ministries seek to extract the greatest return on investment, be that the shareholders’ or taxpayers’ money, companies typically measure these ‘returns’ as profit.

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Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Related: Five Reasons to Love Corporate Politics. If organizations do not intentionally develop leaders who have greater personal power, the default position will be the power over model, which is the prevailing perspective of corporate America. The Bottom Line.

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LSA Global

JULY 6, 2022

Can a Corporate Culture Be Too Nice? At a recent HR Strategy Retreat , the Chief People Officer asked her team, “Is our corporate culture too nice to execute our growth strategy?” Certainly, treating your colleagues politely is a good thing but can you and your workplace culture take “niceness” too far?

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 7, 2022

What distinguishes the most up-to-date corporations is their outsourcing of many of these functions to cloud computing providers. At this point, nearly all companies in whatever sector have incorporated digital solutions into their business models and everyday operations. In order to do this successfully, soft skills are a must.

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Rick Conlow

JANUARY 17, 2023

This radical transformation germinated from the dead works of corporate ignorance and political fat cats that do not care for people. It is not about profit, promotion, or political gain. This means a better DNA of leaders in organizations. Servant leaders are out there. Are you one? Revolutionary change is brewing. Pay fairly.

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Successful Independent Consulting

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Sure, it sounds fabulous – be selective about which jobs you take, have a flexible schedule, escape office politics, make really good money – but it definitely has some drawbacks. Corporate payment terms are typically “net 45” or longer regardless of the size of your invoice. Corresponding worksheet here. )

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Women in Consulting

APRIL 7, 2022

Those organizations are not organized for profit and they may, occasionally, make political statements. We can accomplish this with volunteers, with grants, with corporate sponsorships, or other creative means. Payments to those organizations are not tax deductible.

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LSA Global

MARCH 17, 2022

Strategic influence skills are required because, whether you see it or not, a corporate version of survival of the fittest does exist ? No one likes to admit that a company has destructive politics or gamesmanship, but good people can become marginalized if the way things get done becomes “overly political.”.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

our client confronted an unexpected new challenge, which we need your help with ASAP, we will refresh our corporate software system on Friday, and. A typical top-to-bottom email might look like this: Dear Jeff, I would like you to finish off your data analysis project a day earlier, because. I hope you will understand.

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Martinka Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness – and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself. It gets to the point I don’t even want to go on LinkedIn because all I seem to see are corporate ads and people telling others how great they are without offering anything of value. Adam Grant.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 20, 2021

Felix, Rebecca, and Mihir debate the role of corporations in politics and the rise of special purpose acquisition companies.

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LSA Global

APRIL 20, 2023

Are You Leveraging Your Corporate Culture Mechanisms for Change? Are you leveraging the power of your corporate culture mechanisms for change? In some cases, major changes are required to approach their desired corporate culture. Organizational culture matters. Whether major or minor, culture change can be challenging.

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Rick Conlow

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Negative politics has become an art and a weapon. Unfortunately, horrible bosses are like dinosaurs that still stalk the halls of the corporate world or other organizations. While there are many despicable traits of a bad boss, the biggest complaint is that they are persistent purveyors of negative vibes. Pulling It All Together.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

At Stanford, I took a class called Power & Politics. My professor said, “If you put two people in a room together, there’s politics.”. Politics occurs when different people with conflicting needs try to each get what they want. This is one of several aspects of borrowing power and being politically savvy.

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Consultants' Consultant

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Read about the high percentage of psychopaths in senior corporate life here. Then if you’re interested on dealing with it: read my article on the things your CEO won’t tell you about corporate politics here. Consultants Consultant: So you thought your boss was difficult. Is he or she actually a psychopath?

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Competition authorities put a time-cap on how long an auditing firm can work with a corporation to make sure that auditors don’t become too cosy with clients. In 2019, the Big Four accounted for over 75% of the global accounting market share , audited 495 of the companies in the S&P 500 and all the FTSE 100. Image: Pexels.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 16, 2014

In 1967, Harvard Professor Francis Aguilar wrote a book entitled “Scanning the Business Environment” in which he identified four important factors – Economic, Technical, Political, and Social – that a business can use to better understand the big picture. PESTEL: Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental, and Legal.

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Consultants' Consultant

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Have you learnt valuable lessons in your career on dealing with clients, running meetings or managing corporate politics more effectively? Consultants Consultant: Want to build your personal brand, evangelise your personal insights on how to live a productive life, share your productivity hacks?

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Rick Conlow

MARCH 17, 2021

Is it who you know and office politics? These are proven steps that Rick applied in his career to gain six job promotions within the three corporations. In this career training video learn six keys to getting a job promotion faster. So, how do you get ahead in your job? Granted there is some of that in companies.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 28, 2021

I personally made a habit of scheduling at least two virtual coffee chats with different people every week, which really helped me build my network and better understand the company’s structure, methods of working, and corporate politics.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 15, 2021

Being incredibly savvy at navigating corporate politics doesn’t actually take that much time. So much of being politically savvy involves having an extra conversation or making a well-timed comment that the less savvy person wouldn’t know to do. The time needed to build good relationships in industry isn’t time-consuming.

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Rick Conlow

OCTOBER 29, 2019

According to research, it’s not the issues that matter to most people but the social identity , particularly in politics. In fact, democracies worldwide are slipping into a “political autoimmune disease. Of course, this fuels the dark web political hackers. Global polarization on opinions is the growing norm.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Much of corporate politics (not to mention governmental politics) is based on this principle. "I I firmly believe a solutions-oriented corporate culture outperforms the "blame first" culture in the long run. Third, when choosing employers and where you build a long-term career, pay attention to the corporate culture.

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LSA Global

JUNE 24, 2023

Most Companies Need to Develop Better Leaders Unfortunately, most corporate leaders are not ready to lead their teams or to make effective decisions when the stakes are high. They don’t allow the pressures of workplace politics , time, or money to affect their judgment. Do What’s Right The best leaders always try to do what’s right.

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