Remove lip-service
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Lip Service

Alan Weiss

Here’s some heresy: At executive level in larger companies buyers are not trolling web sites to choose advisors. They may assign their assistants to find venders.) They choose advisors based on peer-to-peer referral, no different from you asking someone you trust for the name of a good doctor or designer. (Do

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7 Things to Consider When You Set Your Strategy…

Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

This gets a ton of lip service, but the customer is the start and finish of where your attention needs to be. That got me thinking about sharing a few ideas about what we should all be considering when we think about strategy. What does success look like? This is the core question. Focus on the customer. You might call this your USP.

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Better Managers Isn't Enough for Higher Engagement

Markovitz Consulting

Now, it’s not always easy to connect an organization’s product or service to something “meaningful.” Unfortunately, too many organizations pay lip service to the notion of improvement without creating mechanisms to make it happen. We’ve all heard the maxim that workers don’t leave companies; they leave their managers.

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The Non-Profit Problem

Alan Weiss

” • Diversity and inclusion have to be apparent, not just lip service, in board composition, staff, performers, and audience. • The organization has to adapt to the times and not just perpetuate the past. There has to be innovation and diverse appeal. • The leadership of the organization and its messaging should be apolitical.

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How Leaders Maximize Corporate Culture

LSA Global

If your corporate culture needs even a small adjustment, you need more than your leadership’s lip service to the behaviors required to live your desired corporate culture. While change communication is an important component of any change management plan , communication alone is not enough to maintain or change corporate culture.

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Intentional design (and complicated systems)

Seth Godin Blog

Take this simple product found at a Hilton hotel, designed and sold by a division of Sysco, the giant food service company. It turns out that the top doesn’t even screw off, there’s a tiny sharp lip that has to be popped up. And now we get to the system problems. The user didn’t purchase this.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms in the Middle East

Management Consulted

Ask any consultant about the Middle East, and Booz (now Strategy&) will be the first name on their lips! BCG in the Middle East has focused on the following industries and sectors: government, financial services, energy, industrial goods, telecommunications, real estate, healthcare and private equity. Here we go! bravo Deloitte!).