Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 7, 2022

Strategy and Leadership Team Alignment energizes an organization and increases the stock price by 170%. A multinational biopharmaceutical company brought in a new CEO to improve operational efficiencies and accelerate growth. Brimstone led the executive leadership team through our Strategy and Leadership Team Alignment process.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 29, 2020

In the past you operated in a compensation model where you do work and then get paid. Now you're operating in a return on investment model where you invest your money, time and talents in your business with the expectation of a return. Sure they may ask for a training program to develop their leadership talent.

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 12, 2020

Brimstone worked side-by-side with an early-stage consumer goods organization to pursue its vision, build a strategic plan, develop roles and operating mechanisms, and to drive sustainable growth at a challenging inflection point. By: Brimstone In Case Studies Posted August 2, 2019 Reigniting Leadership. Revenue increased by 34 times.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Are Leadership Gaps Threatening Your Strategy? Are you willing to let leadership gaps threaten the success of your strategy? Predict Where Leadership Is Needed Most. Bold strategies require bold leaders who operate at many levels, deliver on challenging goals and inspire the best from their colleagues. The Bottom Line.

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LSA Global

MARCH 22, 2017

The research around talent management has uncovered some surprises. We had thought that the best performing companies had the most star talent. Instead of spreading them equally across the organization, Bain found they focused them in the most critical business operations…the functions most crucial to business success.

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 27, 2023

CASE STUDY Telecom Leader Accelerates Business Growth Through Coaching A global telecommunications provider engaged Brimstone to design and facilitate leadership development cohorts, build an inclusive global Sustainability Plan, and coach leaders across the US and Europe.

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LSA Global

MARCH 7, 2024

Smart acquisitions can provide immediate access to valuable new products, technologies, talent, intellectual property, clients, and geographies. Successful culture integration requires the same thoughtful due diligence that is applied to the legal, financial, technological, and operational aspects of the deal.

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Nash Consulting

MAY 21, 2024

According to John Kotter, a top thought leader on leadership and change, a whopping 70% of change initiatives fail due to inadequate buy-in and insufficient communication. This isn’t exclusive to the most senior leader or the senior leadership team, although it absolutely needs to start with them. This all starts with a clear vision.

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Brimstone Consulting

APRIL 4, 2023

The coachee was the head of the US Operations group; we will call him “Bob.” Having partnered with Brimstone in the past on creating a strategy for the Operations group in Europe, Bob’s manager reached out to us, and Bob agreed to enter into a 6-month coaching relationship with one of our executive coaches.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 2, 2022

Technology disruption, the war for talent, inflation, and recessionary pressures are creating the perfect storm for many businesses. Empower your teams to operate more efficiently and effectively and break down silos that impede open communication and collaboration.

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Brimstone Consulting

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Define Your Leadership Model. Take the time to define your leadership model and to make it explicit. Articulating and codifying your leadership model will help you better understand where you excel, your focus, and what you enjoy as a leader. How do you fix operational problems, political conflicts, interpersonal issues?

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LSA Global

JUNE 2, 2023

Whether you face an unexpected threat from competition, a disruption in technology, economic headwinds, or talent drain, your strategy needs to be regularly evaluated. To succeed, leadership teams need to test their strategy to ensure it makes sense within the overall market, culture, competitor, and talent realities.

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LSA Global

MAY 11, 2023

To us, it feels like leadership malpractice to create an organizational structure that negatively impacts the loyalty, discretionary effort, or intent to stay of your top talent. Just remember that each organization has a unique mix of strategies, cultures, and talent that must be treated accordingly.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

While you may not directly use the 7 S Model in the consulting case interview, it will give you a deeper understanding of how to examine the inner workings of an organisation, identify strengths and sources of competitive advantage, as well as weaknesses and reasons why an organisation may not be operating effectively.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Most companies take it for granted that their top leaders can operationally handle the day-to-day leadership pressures required to meet short-term targets, establish a high performance culture to engage and retain top talent, and simultaneously be masters of their area of expertise. Here is what we mean.

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LSA Global

APRIL 20, 2023

Our organizational alignment research found that workplace culture accounts for 40% of the difference between high and low performance in terms of revenue growth, profitability, customer loyalty, employee engagement , and leadership performance. This sends a clear message about the actual team norms and creates a leadership trust gap.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 22, 2018

Download this podcast. We’re discussing a new Deloitte report around leadership in a diverse new world. This report makes the point that people in leadership roles are facing new demands because the context for leadership is changing. How do you define inclusive leadership? Angelia Herrin, HBR.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 30, 2019

19% lower operating income. While managers and management practices matter to a certain degree, our employee engagement survey data from over 500,000 employees per year over the last five years tells us that company leadership and opportunities for development matter more. The Importance of Company Leadership. The Bottom Line.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 14, 2020

Finding top talent, even when the job market is not tight, is not easy. Even though companies count on new hires to make their growth plans happen, there never seems to be a deep enough or wide enough talent pipeline. And leadership teams may not be operating in an easily detectable aligned or healthy manner.

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LSA Global

MARCH 20, 2020

While many pundits believe that people can’t perform both roles well, corporations continue to believe that high performing and high potential employees can, at the same time, operate as an effective individual producer and people leader simultaneously. Talent – Build Skills. How to Set Up Your Player-Coaches for Success.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

If you want to really improve manager competence and confidence, we recommend you take a highly customized action learning leadership development approach. High performing managers operate as an effective individual producer and people leader simultaneously. Because we measured over 800 successful (e.g.,

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

“Change” Has Changed Over three-quarters of CEOs acknowledge that their organizations need reinvention to compete for customers and talent. Actively Involve Stakeholders The old ways to manage change focused simply on better change communications from leadership to employees. And the results speak for themselves.

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LSA Global

MARCH 16, 2018

During change, operational approaches, decision making boundaries, social norms, risk tolerance levels, go-to-market approaches and beliefs about customer and employee centricity can weaken or become misaligned. There is a change in leadership. Employee attrition of top talent increases. Six Times When Culture Becomes a Crisis.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

A healthy culture creates the foundation to attract, engage, develop and retain top talent that works well together. Trust in leadership or the company is weak. To learn more about how to strengthen the weak links in your corporate culture , download The 3 Levels of a High Performance Culture. The Cure for Cultural Weaknesses.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Flexible talent-access platforms are enabling many of these companies, making it easier than ever before to bring in the right skills for the right project at the right time. But making the most of flexible talent-access platforms is not as simple as adding a solution into an existing organization.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 21, 2018

High growth helps set the stage to dominate market segments, to win big clients, to make strategic investments and to provide opportunities to attract and retain top talent. How can we keep our top talent engaged and reduce the stress as greater demands are made of them? Most companies want to rapidly grow revenues and profits.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Culture’s Impact on a Company’s Success A healthy, high performing, and aligned corporate culture is an emotional energizer and makes talent and business strategy execution easier; an unhealthy and misaligned culture is a drag on performance. But it is not enough to define, you must live your desired workplace culture.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 22, 2018

Decision-Making Approach Example: Imagine the difficulty of making effective and timely decisions in the field if the predominant organizational culture values all significant decisions be made by top leadership (a centralized approach) versus allowing individuals to make decisions at the front line (a decentralized approach).

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LSA Global

MAY 5, 2020

First, smart sales leaders ensure that the sales culture is healthy in terms of sales leadership, trust, capability, and norms. Until you can answer these questions, your sales team will not be operating as the high performance team you desire. Do not underestimate the importance of how sales-related work gets done. The Bottom Line.

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LSA Global

JUNE 20, 2017

Our organizational alignment research at more than 400 companies across eight industries found cultural factors account for 40% of the difference between high and low performing companies in terms of growth, profitability, customer satisfaction, customer retention, leadership effectiveness and employee engagement.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

To download a customizable version, visit the Visual Library. Companies wind up in trouble and squander the time, talent, and energy of their workforce when they lose focus, spend money on things that don’t make a difference to employees or the future of the business, and use operating models that are out of whack.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2017

Download a customizable version in Subscriber Exclusives. Effective leadership isn’t generic. To achieve great performance, companies need a leadership profile that reflects their unique context, strategy, business model, and culture—the company’s unique behavioral signature. Related Video.

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LSA Global

JUNE 5, 2019

Every organization needs to operate with some common standards and procedures. For example, one client made their HR function a shared service center which defunded a leadership development program that was essential to building their talent pipeline. When Standards and Uniformity Matter.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Companies like Google operate simultaneously in multiple ecosystems, as do their competitors. Instead, it has just focused on the mobile-operating-system market. When different suppliers provide the required functionality for each layer, the leadership of the stack is divided. Apple), the industry stack is vertically integrated.

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Kates Kesler

AUGUST 29, 2012

We long have been fascinated by the overlap between leadership and organization development. One of the most difficult challenges for new general managers, who have been promoted after leading functional teams in marketing, sales or operations, is to make their leadership impact scalable across and multi-dimensional organization.

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Cheryl Cran

JANUARY 18, 2016

In my book The Art of Change Leadership I interviewed a number of leaders in organizations where meaning and purpose are a focus and these companies are thriving not only in business growth and customer happiness but also with employee happiness and engagement. Change leadership that includes flexibility, agility and adaptability skills.

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