The Management Centre

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Of course, like everywhere, at first there was a lot of change, disruption and upheaval. But even though things are much more settled than they were, I’m really struggling to get through my work in the same way or at the same rate. I’m at home but the kids are in school again, and they spend some time at their Dad’s each week too.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Over the past year, we’ve been struck by how many times we’ve heard C-suite leaders use these words, or very similar ones, to describe the strengths they believe are critical to transforming their businesses, and to competing effectively in a disruptive era. We’re too decentralized. You can guess the solution.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

“Digital is coming and it’s coming fast”; “No industry sector is immune to disruption”; “One thing is certain about digital transformation: It will be a big change for your entire organization”; “Digital will disrupt your industry.” Complements are not substitutes. Not so fast.

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Rod Burkert

MAY 23, 2018

These are all things that we would want if we were paying for an expensive valuation project. How to differentiate yourself : Design a report that is client facing. 6 – We take too long to deliver our reports. I am talking about disrupting negative aspects of the BV profession. Why not stand out for them?

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Organizations, processes, and cultures will be integrated for weeks and months after the organizations come together, causing disruption and uncertainty. Their sense of normal is disrupted. And, the merger or acquisition won’t be the last change they are facing. It makes the culture too risk averse and squelches momentum.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 3, 2021

At the time of writing this article, many firms are not meeting candidates face-to-face due to COVID-19. They understand that, if you were to have a better camera, you’d be fine with a client. So, don’t be too worried about the camera. What would you do if the interviewer were a client? They see the logic.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

And maybe you should jump on the platform bandwagon too. After all, platforms, including disruptive ones, are nothing new. And many platforms today, such as 50-year-old MasterCard, were started back when a browser was someone thumbing through magazines at the local newsstand. If it worked for Airbnb, why not you?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

Success was measured quantitatively by the firm’s performance (profit and growth) vs. that of its competitors, and also qualitatively by interviews with senior executives who were involved, but not deeply invested, in the efforts (typically the CFO). But the commitment to advanced analytics disrupted this equilibrium.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2017

health care system is begging for disruption. It costs way too much ($3.3 trillion last year) and delivers too little value. And while better care for complex patients is clearly part of the solution to our cost and quality problems, it may not be the systemic disruption that some are hoping for. Paul Taylor/Getty Images.

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Women in Consulting

APRIL 10, 2014

There would be a lot less bad marketing in the world if executives were forced to read all the ineffective, sometimes downright awful, content their organizations produce. No one recommends a product to a friend because it contains “disruptive, game-changing technology.” By: Kathy Klotz-Guest. Marketers know this. Outward Focus.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 6, 2020

At the time of writing this article, many firms are not meeting candidates face-to-face due to COVID-19. They understand that, if you were to have a better camera, you’d be fine with a client. So, don’t be too worried about the camera. What would you do if the interviewer were a client? They see the logic.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Due to improved technology and rising productivity, the Federal Reserve has been able to juice the money supply for more than 70 years without it showing up too much in the price level. If inflation were calculated the same way today as it was in the 1970s, the inflation rate would currently be running at close to 15%.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

Most of us don’t oversee huge IPOs, but sooner or later, every team faces an unexpected crisis: technology breaks, a competitor makes a disruptive move, a promising project fails, a key employee quits, consumers have a negative reaction to a new product—the list goes on. Here are three of those lessons. Learn to stop.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2018

Yet, time and again, they have struggled to innovate with new and disruptive technologies. Incumbent firms struggle when they stray too far from investor expectations. In effect, the financial markets were heavily discounting the digital ventures of these firms. Simon McGill/Getty Images. Thus it is with transformation.”

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

In the face of errors, most people’s natural reaction is to correct such errors in the data they need — after all, when you’re dealing with a mountain of day-in, day-out demands, that seems the fastest, most efficient way to complete the task at hand. All of us depend on data created elsewhere to do our work.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 27, 2017

If you’re too quick to react, you can end up with short-sighted decisions or superficial solutions, neglecting underlying causes and create collateral damage in the process. And because Jenna’s conversations were all rushed and impersonal, she failed to deepen relationships and establish trust within the team.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

Some companies that made the list were obvious choices; for example, the biggest online retailer now gets most of its profit from cloud services (Amazon). But others were surprising, given their states before embarking on transformation. Core r epositioning. Financial performance. For more on our methods, see the sidebars below.)

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Billable Percentage

MARCH 21, 2017

Supply chain disruption. ” These managers were so good at doing their job as a “doer” that they were noticed by upper management and got promoted to a manager level. Too focused on putting out daily fires. Think about all of the factors they have to consider: Rapidly changing technology.

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Nash Consulting

JULY 14, 2021

When something in our environment threatens to disrupt the status quo, we tend to get up in knots about it. Add to this the fact that nearly half of the organizations on the 2018 top 100 list by revenue were not on that list in 2008. It’s the seemingly small ones, too. What barriers are you facing to making this change?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2016

Business school faculty often bemoan how their students place too much importance on economics and finance courses and not enough on more humanistic ones, such as human-resource management. Typically, most students choose to take the course online, and there is almost no face-to-face interaction with instructors.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Reeling from the growing pains of a $475 million merger with Nortel, the business communications company faced lingering customer disillusionment and falling profits. When facing a reputation problem, most organizations simply rebrand. In 2011 Avaya had a major likability problem, and the according market performance you would expect.

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2016

There are many reasons that founder-led companies are so good at disrupting industries and making life miserable for slow-moving incumbents. Incumbents, on the other hand, very often see the future as a threat: As leaders invested heavily in the status quo, innovation and disruption are not good for them. The future is not better.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Newcomers like Harry’s still represent only a fraction of the overall market , but they’ve captured the majority of the growth in that time—a defining feature of disruptive innovation. Of these companies, 29 were incubated from the ground up by Xiaomi, and four were already unicorns worth over $1 billion.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2016

To estimate on-demand spending, respondents were queried about whether they purchased on-demand products and services in a monthly period, the categories of the purchases, and the amount spent. Results were projected to the U.S. How online marketplaces are changing the face of business. The Platform Economy. billion in spending.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

“If there ever were an antitrust case where the parties had a dramatically different assessment of the current state of the relevant market and a fundamentally different vision of its future development,” Judge Leon began his decision, “this is the one.”

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

While some banks and insurers were known for their service or products, most have long focused on operating as efficiently as possible. Digital disruption is rewriting job descriptions too, especially for the CIO. Internal departments and employees were once seen as the CIO’s customers.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 7, 2016

Were the month to close here (charts below captured yesterday), this would be the lowest monthly close dating all the way back to December 2003. They now are stuck with being far too short the market at a level they don`t even like being stuck short. " " This entire move in equities and oil was already preplanned at the beginning of the year.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Census Bureau shows that these businesses were more likely than the average business to close permanently after Hurricane Katrina, for example. Young firms face many existential threats related to managing internal financial and human resources and external relationships with customers, suppliers, investors and competitors.

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2018

Managing an employee who is going through a stressful period is “one of the real challenges all bosses face,” says Linda Hill, professor at Harvard Business School and author of Being the Boss. They may be too overwhelmed, or embarrassed that it is causing them to be late repeatedly or to miss deadlines.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

It is not too late for incumbents to reverse the digital curse and re-create a more profitable growth path if they are willing and able to invest more in digital than their peers and take the offensive by reshuffling their activity portfolios and beefing up remaining activities with new business models. They are, in order of importance: 1.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Unfortunately, too many leaders want transformation to happen at unrealistic speeds, with minimal effort, and everywhere but within themselves. During times of disruptive change, all sorts of feelings are heightened — loss of control, the interruption of power, fear of failure.

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Harvard Business

JULY 21, 2017

For years, when I spoke with CEOs or senior leaders, it was because they were interested in how my consulting firm could help their employees become more engaged, or innovative, or sustainably high-performing. Here’s what happens, for example, when we overuse or rely too exclusively on the strengths on the left. Self-control.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 8, 2014

Participants were most concerned about the marginal cost of additional asset purchases arising from risks to financial stability, pointing out that a highly accommodative stance of monetary policy could provide an incentive for excessive risk-taking in the financial sector. The incentive for excessive risk-taking has been operative for years.

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

Sometimes these designs work well; however, research shows that this collaborative push may be too much of a good thing. Many were opting to work from home or elsewhere, and the company had a fair number of employees working remotely across the globe. Boundaries that delineate among activities and teams were still important to them.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Stiglitz : As I said in my talk the reality is, if the reforms I described were made, Germany would not have to write large checks. SAo my advice would be along the lines of what you are hinting at: They should probably face the reality that there is not going to be political reform that will make the euro viable for the periphery.

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Successful Independent Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2020

in pretty much the same way I would have if they were next to me or down the hall. There's a subset of the team members that like to use the little icons that come with Teams where they click either a thumbs up or a smiley face to acknowledge that someone posted something and they’ve read it. Liz) Trust your instincts!

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 25, 2015

This transformation has been under way since the late 1980s, when monetary discipline broke the back of inflation and the Fed was faced with new challenges. The crisis and recession of 2008-2009 was far worse than its predecessors, and the aftershocks were far more wrenching. The "Draghi PUT" is at least as big as any PUT by Greenspan.

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