LSA Global

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Business sales training studies of both buyers and sellers report a recurrent theme – the importance of value. That means agreement on target clients, value proposition, success metrics, sales processes and methodologies, barriers to success, and a realistic action plan to execute your sales strategy and overcome the key barriers.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

In a Deloitte study of 7,000 organizations this year, 89% of executives rated “ strengthening the leadership pipeline ” an urgent issue. To explain why, I’ll share some findings from a study my colleagues and I just completed at Deloitte. Paul Garbett for HBR. They talk about it, and they live by it.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

One large media organization faces large incumbent players and operates in a market that is growing quickly. Rather than using traditional top-down management practices, the company organized itself into small business units, each of which operates in a local geography. We call this operating structure the “network of teams.”

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

After working closely with over twenty large US and European-based global companies during the past ten years, we have concluded the problem is not in the fundamental design of these operating models. They have grown up moving through jobs that take them across regions, cultures, functions, and business models.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

A recent study by Comparably found that 42% of workers across every gender, age group, and function rated “having unclear goals” as their top source of stress – almost three times higher than having a “bad manager.”. Methods of operation. Creating a Culture of High Accountability. Goals and Accountabilities Matter.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Bernstein studied assembly-line performance at a company he called “Precision.” Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2017

Other firms have ventured down this path, including the conglomerate Wesfarmers , with its 200,000-plus staff, and the global hospital operator Ramsay Health Care. Corporations are now taking a further step beyond objective metrics, which can be financial and nonfinancial, to include subjective measures — tagged as “soft.”

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Practitioners and pundits alike have long debated which metric is best for assessing the performance of a service organization. It’s not surprising that the metric figures prominently on a service rep’s scorecard. Why is average handle time such a bad metric for service? AHT is a culture killer.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 29, 2016

But, according to a study by one of us (Christopher) of C-suite executives from India, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, the U.S., But, according to a study by one of us (Christopher) of C-suite executives from India, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, the U.S., Cross-cultural differences. We tell ourselves that we would never do those things.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2017

We live in a culture of “yes.” But here’s the trouble with having a corporate culture built around likability: When people are afraid to turn down noncritical projects, good ideas get smothered. PlayPump’s downfall lay in its failure to measure by those metrics, leading them to run headfirst toward catastrophe.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

A recent study of VC firms found that more-diverse teams had higher financial returns than their homogenous counterparts. To look into this question, I conducted a case study as part of my dissertation research involving 23 women of color at a Fortune 500 company. What made their ascent possible? They confidently seize opportunities.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 18, 2022

A recent MIT study revealed that wages in the U.S According to a study by McKinsey & Company, you are justified in this thinking. Selfless love cultivates an organizational culture where healthy and caring leader-follower relationships break down the adverse effects of our differences.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2017

While some have invested significantly in technology, operational, and cultural changes, others are lagging behind. Other financial and operating indicators showed similar disparities. The broad deployment of digital technology requires rethinking both business and operating models. What Digital Leaders Do Differently.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 23, 2018

Power, as my colleague Ena Inesi has studied, can cause leaders to become overly obsessed with outcomes and control, and, therefore, treat their employees as means to an end. Take for example a UK food delivery service that I’ve studied. Unfortunately, many leaders lose sight of this. Jungkiu changed the nature of these visits.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 30, 2016

In addition, Economics degrees are highly theoretical – which often doesn’t equate to the very specific, actionable and data-driven consulting culture. If all you have is trading, investment, and financial experience on your resume, the firms will wonder how interested you are in business operations.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Among the findings: On average, HR leaders lag far behind other professionals in their ability to operate in a highly digital environment and use data to guide business decisions. Such internal collaborations may not only help HR attain new skills, but also help to foster a data-driven culture across the organization.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2016

Since then, improving health care outcomes has become a central goal in everything from clinical training and research studies to government initiatives and political debate. Nearly 65 million surgical operations were performed last year in the U.S., Older procedures required cutting large openings to operate on a patient (e.g.,

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

The challenges of big firm–small firm collaboration are considerable: different cultures, different attitudes about sharing intellectual property, different concerns about risk sharing, and others. Only 14% of the companies we studied were in the active management category. They used the right metrics to measure success.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

These kinds of statements speak to a leader’s choice of values, and a failure to understand the relationships between a safe work environment and operational performance. The reality is that virtually all workplace injuries are preventable, and safety management and operational excellence are intimately linked.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 7, 2023

An Examination of the Importance of Leadership Behaviors and Attributes on Shaping Culture Executive Summary Organizational culture is a critical factor in financially successful companies. But culture change is often overwhelming and elusive. Section three focuses on proven approaches to architect organizational culture.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. This takes time. Create small, talent-rich teams working outside the hierarchy to address your most important priorities.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 19, 2016

As police expert and criminology professor Geoffrey Alpert recently said , “We know what needs to happen next but we just keep studying the question instead of doing something about the answers we’ve arrived at.” Departments blame “rogue cops,” not organizational culture. Beginning with James Q.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. In the largest study on climate change data and corporations, 8,000 supplier companies (that sell to 75 multinationals) reported on their level of climate risk. ” Improving risk management. ” Improving risk management.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 16, 2016

BTS GROUP INTERVIEWS AND CULTURE. However, the firm operates in five main practice areas: Assessments, Business Acumen, Leadership Development, Sales Training, and Strategy Execution. BTS GROUP CULTURE. The culture at BTS Group is described by employees as fun, tight-knit, and quirky. BTS GROUP KEY STATS.

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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2018

We investigated this topic when we studied how Nokia executives dealt with the company’s severe strategic challenges between 2007 and 2013. Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system. ANTTI AIMO-KOIVISTO/Stringer. Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

HDP is a third-party administrator with expertise in the development and management of travel surgery programs, providing strategic and operational management of this program. Administrative leaders experienced with their hospital’s operational network are needed when the necessary new care pathways and processes are disruptive.

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Management Consulted

JULY 19, 2015

So I’m kind of looking at Bain, but I’m looking to decide between what office I would prefer to work in, and so knowing more about the office culture, and what it’s like, and what industries you all work with would give me a better understanding of where I would like to work this summer, and potentially full-time as well.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

We recently completed a study for the CEO of a very well known, global sports-apparel brand company. At a glance, the study revealed these themes: There is no common pattern for a ‘best organization design’ regardless of size, strategy, or industry. Let’s look at each of the five as they played out in our study companies.

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QEmploy

JUNE 28, 2019

This idea needs to be implemented not only from a social point of view but also from a cultural aspect. The HRC Foundation provides studies aimed to make the LGBT inclusion methods and policies a significant part of any workplaces’ everyday practice. The firms show commitment to diversity and cultural competency.

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LSA Global

APRIL 16, 2021

In fact, a study in the International Journal of Sport Physiology and Performance asked 93 U.S. Once your go-to-market sales strategy is clear enough, your next step is to ensure that your sales culture is healthy, high performing, and aligned with your sales strategy. elite marathoners who qualified for the U.S.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The CEOs in our study were adept at telling their company’s story. Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. Adopt a Both/And Performance Mindset.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2018

More recently, a study compared the commonly used crime risk analysis tool COMPAS against recidivism predictions from 400 untrained workers recruited via Amazon Mechanical Turk. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Combine traditional machine learning metrics with fairness measures.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The more calls they received, the more operators they needed, and the more their margins eroded. They would continue tracking their normal metrics but, for the next few weeks, these metrics wouldn’t impact teams’ compensation. ” Yeah, ouch. What did it take to make employees feel safe asking for help?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Our study of the actions and impact of 411 leaders of UK academies found that only 62 of them managed their turnaround successfully and sustainably transformed their school. We studied them over eight years, using 64 investment and 24 performance variables to identify what they did, when they did it, and the impact they had.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2017

I responded that even if it is the norm for this company’s culture — and potentially many others — it is not acceptable universally, nor should it be. A classic 1998 Stanford University study accurately predicted that by 2020 advances in technology will have eliminated many lower to mid-level jobs.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Instead, translators play a critical role in bridging the technical expertise of data engineers and data scientists with the operational expertise of marketing, supply chain, manufacturing, risk, and other frontline managers. Additionally, knowledge of common use cases (e.g., in their domain is important.

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