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Why CEO’s Hire Consultants and Coaches: The REAL Value They Bring with Brad Rex

Consulting Matters

About the guest: About the guest: Brad Rex is an accomplished senior executive and corporate officer with proven experience growing businesses and driving results in start-up, turnaround, expansion and multi-site situations.

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Avoiding Costly Business Mistakes With Consultants

Business Consulting Agency

These inefficiencies hinder productivity and hamper the ability to adapt to market dynamics. In the rapidly evolving business landscape, missing the right moment to pivot or innovate can lead to a loss of market share. Informed Decision-Making: Consultants base their recommendations on data, market trends, and industry best practices.

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Coronavirus: Analysis, Conclusions & Takeaways

CaseInterview.com

With the media, stock markets, and social media going crazy over the topic, I spent a lot of time digging into the data to develop my own conclusions. It turns out that there is an actual metric that measures this. The closest proxy metric that’s easy to measure is # of NEW cases today vs. yesterday.

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To Grow as a Leader, Seek More Complex Assignments

Harvard Business

against the average scores for those metrics from all the executives in our worldwide database. This company, which stretched into all sorts of industries and markets, offering numerous strategic challenges, should have been an ideal training ground for executives. What we found was an incredible paradox. You and Your Team Series.

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How Avaya Turned Around Its Customer Ratings

Harvard Business

In 2011 Avaya had a major likability problem, and the according market performance you would expect. And adding input and throughput metrics to the measurement of output means team leaders can see where they are in relation to the efforts of other parts of the company. Any large company should be able to do what Avaya did.

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Private Equity’s New Phase

Harvard Business

These buy outs shifted agency from owners to managers; “corporate raiders” worked with high-yield debt to fund these turnarounds. These “buy, fix, manage, and then sell” PE firms were essentially umbrella holding companies while the acquired firms would become better managed before returning to the public market.

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How to Pass the McKinsey Problem Solving Game

CaseInterview.com

In ecosystem-type games, there are often local minimums and maximums, or rules regarding how certain metrics used in the game must be greater than or less than some specific threshold. How do you produce the fastest turnaround time for new orders given a certain number of employees in a work shift?