Cheryl Cran

DECEMBER 8, 2014

What does it take for leaders and teams to be ready and to have the skills needed to match the speed of change and the speed of technology? Leaders and teams need to rewire the brain and to apply new evolutionary ways of thinking and doing things in order to morph to the fast changing business reality.

System 20

System Operations Agile Tools 20

Management Consulted

MAY 25, 2014

The Gallup Consulting practice is a unique place – easier to break into from non-targets than MBB, but outrageously globally competitive and totally unique in its assessment process (you have one chance, in your life, period). This is definitely not your typical interview process. KEY STATS FOR GALLUP CONSULTING.

Interviews 181

Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 181

Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2018

So, you set out for early wins in what seem like obvious areas to fix — on the cost side, perhaps the speed of processes within production, and on the revenue side, the size of the sales force. How to Slow Down in a High-Speed Job. That’s why you were brought in.

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Journal Leadership Operations Company 41

Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2018

When algorithms replace consumer emotions as the prime force shaping purchase decisions, consumers could easily forego their customary brand choices in exchange for the speed and convenience of whatever is offered by the self-interested, digitally empowered parties now taking control of consumer choice. Redefine your target market.

Retail 28

Retail Data Marketing Productivity 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Studies show that our brain and body have trouble distinguishing between the kind of stress caused by real danger (our house is on fire) and perceived danger (a boss with too many demands). In response, they release hormones and chemicals to speed up our heart rate, increase blood pressure and stimulate our muscles.

Exercises 28

Exercises Chemicals Pharmaceuticals Journal 28

Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

When the alarm rings, our bodies go into high alert, adrenaline and hormones course through our veins, muscles tighten so that we can move quickly, hands sweat, and breathing and heart rates speed up. We don’t thrive physically, we are disengaged and unhappy at work, and our brains don’t work properly. We pick fights.

Emotional Intelligence 28

Emotional Intelligence Resources Development Management 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

We found that the algorithmic recommendations drove a 25% increase in the number of products viewed by consumers and a 35% increase in products purchased. But removing personal decision-making from the process entirely, as Google and many automakers have decided to do, might be met with skepticism among customers.

Study 28

Study Productivity Research Advertising 28

Nash Consulting

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

If meetings are accomplishing their goal and helping people to better manage their work and work relationships, people stop seeing meetings as an assault on their precious and finite time and begin to view them as an opportunity for better performance, increased productivity, and most importantly, greater workplace satisfaction.

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Meeting Case Interview Groups Energy 52

Nash Consulting

JULY 2, 2020

In the first one-fifth of a second, your brain can’t tell the difference between physical danger and what we call “social danger.” Brain science shows us that we process everything as a threat or a reward and that our “avoid” (“It could hurt me!”) All of this is happening in the brain unconsciously and at lightning speed.

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Groups Culture Research Leadership 52

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Moreover, after reading the book “The Lords of Strategy” by Walter Kiechel, my passion for consulting only increased as I realized the critical role that corporate strategy and consulting firms played in historically shaping the modern world.” The process is vital for long term improvement on one’s personality.”

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

Machine-reengineering is a way to automate business processes using machine learning. Although machine-reengineering is new, companies are already seeing striking results with it, particularly in boosts to speed and efficiency. Arria has found that the process changes can increase knowledge workers’ productivity by 25%.

Efficiency 28

Efficiency Company Data Engineering 28

Cheryl Cran

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

What’s a leader to do but increase ability to build disruption tolerance in times of intense uncertainty. The level of change and uncertainty that is happening seems to be increasing in tempo and pace. The level of change and uncertainty that is happening seems to be increasing in tempo and pace.

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How To Agile Retail Training 25