LSA Global

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Do Employees Understand Your Desired Culture? If you ask your employees to describe your corporate culture, you may be surprised by their answers. The larger the gap between your current and desired workplace culture, the larger the gap between your ability to execute your business and talent strategies.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 9, 2021

Your Preferred Workplace Culture Most leaders, especially those with new teams or at early growth stages, work hard to create a meaningful organizational culture they want for their organization that makes sense to them and their teams. But they then ask, “How do you reinforce your preferred workplace culture?”

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2018

How do you help your team develop their creativity? In our study, we split up a team of 10 people into a meditating group and a control group. To start, we gave all 10 people a creative task: to brainstorm as many unusual uses for a brick as they could think of. You and Your Team Series. Thinking Creatively. Emma Seppala.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

What Corporate Culture Is. Do you know how to design a high performance culture? Culture is your organization’s unique approach to how it executes strategy. If strategy is “what” you want to accomplish and “why”, then culture is “how” you execute it on a day-to-day basis. What Corporate Culture Is NOT.

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LSA Global

MAY 31, 2021

Employers understandably want to gather feedback from their workers , so they learn where best to focus efforts to improve leadership behaviors, business operations, and corporate culture. Survey participants weary of answering questions when they are not privy to the summary report and see no concerted action to effect change.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

The Process of Culture Change Needs to Be Faster. Any organizational change can be difficult. At best, the process moves forward slower than the challenge of your strategic objectives would like. But there are ways to speed up the process of culture change. Culture and strategy are inextricably linked.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 14, 2022

You have the vision to be an effective leader and grow your business. But, no matter how often or how directly you ask, your request for feedback to help you improve gets lost in translation. Developing good habits for getting constructive feedback improves your ability to grow your career and business. Ken Blanchard.

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LSA Global

JULY 10, 2018

A Misaligned Workplace Culture Creates Problems. Once you accept the fact that workplace culture matters (and matters a lot) when you are trying to build a high performing organization, then you can focus your attention on what culture gaps might exist. The Definition of Workplace Culture. Why Culture Matters.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Known as an interesting and challenging place to work – and with legitimate compensation to boot – come explore with us whether or not Cornerstone Research should become the foundation of (or next step in) your consulting career. Corporate and Government Investigations. How exactly does the firm help, though?

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 17, 2020

Navigating Uncertainty: Six Resources to Prepare for Change. Six resources for preparing for change–particularly change that is ever in flux and unknowable at the same time. Build Your Resilience in the Face of a Crisis. Here’s how you can get unstuck and build your resilience. Leadership. Communication.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 27, 2018

According to a recent Harvard Business Review Study and research by McKinsey, the most enduringly successful companies, those delivering a 10-fold return to investors over a ten year period, excel at management practices. Four Steps to Improve New Manager Training. Begin with a clear and compelling corporate strategy.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Strategic alignment occurs when your business strategy is clearly articulated, fully understood, and consistently executed across your organization. The steps to create strategic alignment set you and your team up to be collectively firing on all cylinders. Customer Satisfaction 3.2-to-1. Leadership Effectiveness 8.71-to-1.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 9, 2014

You’ll have to read on to hear our opinion (see Culture section in particular). The Advisory Board Company Employees: 2,400+ employees The Advisory Board Company Locations: 3 countries, 10 offices The Advisory Board Company Chief Executive: Robert W. and around the world, with a premier niche in the healthcare space.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 24, 2017

Improve Corporate Learning to Improve Performance. As a business leader, your goal should be to develop a workforce that knows how to out-think, out-relate and out-learn the competition. You need to develop a true learning culture. Four Ways to Improve Corporate Learning. Fifty Percent of Jobs Will Be Automated.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

Additionally, among the top 10 consulting firms, Oliver Wyman has been the fastest growing over the last 5 years, growth that happened both organically and through an impressive line up of mergers and acquisitions. In 2011, Oliver Wyman ranked 7th in Vault’s Consulting 50 (combining “best to work for” and overall prestige).

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LSA Global

AUGUST 6, 2021

We know from experience and from a recent IBM survey that less than 10% of carefully crafted strategies are being successfully implemented. If your strategy is not clear enough, not agreed to, not perceived to be equal to the challenge, or not supported by adequate resources to truly succeed, it won’t. The question is why.

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LSA Global

MAY 27, 2017

Employee engagement training teaches that, when hiring, you must try your best to match the candidate’s skills to the job. The job seeker’s fit to your corporate culture. Employee engagement training experts know that the first step is to use a valid tool to measure level of employee engagement. What to Do?

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Confessions of a Consultant

JANUARY 27, 2019

“Without the spur of a crisis or a period of great stress, most organisations — like most people — are incapable of changing” John F. The roadmap chosen to explain the change process had to be comprehensive yet simple to understand. A change strategy implies choice. The Approach: We presented 6 possible ‘change options’.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

In the corporate world, business strategy design serves as the guide to win over the competition; it considers all the influencing factors of the business and outlines the way to secure future success. Once they are fully answered and clear to all key stakeholders, your teams can fire on all cylinders. Designing a Business Strategy.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

Booz & Company Interview and Culture. Where prestige, pay, exit opportunities and culture are concerned, Booz & Company ranks number 4 behind MBB. We call what eventually became Booz affectionately, “the firm” because it went through so many name changes till it became what it is now. We want you to nail it. In the U.S.

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Management Consulted

JUNE 12, 2016

A household name in the consulting world, Ernst & Young (EY) has gone through some dramatic changes in the past few years. But is it where you want to start your career? Or where you want to climb up the corporate ladder? And is it a good stepping stone for you to get to MBB firms? Let’s investigate. Technology.

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Management Consulted

JULY 3, 2016

If you are one of those econ fanatics (ahem: nerds) who dig economics, statistics, and antitrust policies, Bates White may be the firm you’ve been searching for your whole life. Stick THAT in your pipe and smoke it, everyone else who’s written a not-so-cited piece of peer-reviewed economic literature!

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 140

LSA Global

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Are You and Your Leadership Team Aware of the Top Cognitive Biases that Affect Strategic Planning? The Top 10 Cognitive Biases that Affect Strategic Planning. We are all subject to cognitive bias. The term refers to the way that the framing of information and its context can influence our decision-making and judgment. Anchoring Bias.

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LSA Global

JULY 1, 2017

A study by IBM found that less than 10% of well formulated strategies are effectively executed. A study by IBM found that less than 10% of well formulated strategies are effectively executed. The first step toward successful strategy execution is making sure everyone knows the plan and how their job fits into it.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

Ron and his partners at Navalent help companies that are in pursuit of a substantial transformational change, whether it be strategic formulation, organizational design, cultural shifts, or executive leadership behaviors. Ron has over 25 years of experience, and he has worked hard to position himself as a truly successful consultant.

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Martinka Consulting

JULY 6, 2015

The acquirer wants to or has to double sales in five years, in a competitive market, and exceed industry trends (a trend where whiskey is on the upswing, and which could change at any time) to cover their debt. This takes me back to what must be about 10 years ago when Seattle supermarket chain and institution Larry’s Market went under.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Empathy has never been in more explicit demand from corporate leaders — particularly after a divisive U.S. The Empathy Index seeks to answer the question: Which companies are successfully creating empathetic cultures? companies and 10 Indian companies. This year’s index builds on the methodology of last year’s.

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LSA Global

JULY 1, 2017

A study by IBM found that less than 10% of well formulated strategies are effectively executed. A study by IBM found that less than 10% of well formulated strategies are effectively executed. The first step toward successful strategy execution is making sure everyone knows the plan and how their job fits into it.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Imagine that a temporary absence from your workplace could lead to 10 years of sustained high performance being forgotten. Imagine that your relationship with senior partners at your firm, with whom you had previously worked closely, significantly worsened.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 7, 2014

. BRIDGESPAN INTERVIEWS & CULTURE . Tierney came on board as the third co-founder in 1999 and stepped aside as Bain’s CEO in 2000 to focus on Bridgespan. Today we continue our firm profile series with an in-depth review of Bridgespan. KEY STATS FOR BRIDGESPAN. Bridgespan Website: www.bridgespan.org.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Getting this type of reorganization right allows business units from the merging companies to be brought together smoothly, corporate activities to be standardized and streamlined, people to be aligned behind desired outcomes, and integration synergies to be delivered quickly. Step 1: Develop a Profit and Loss Statement.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 29, 2016

More often the dilemmas were the result of competing interests, misaligned incentives, clashing cultures. Companies can warp their own ethical climate by pushing too much change from the top, too quickly and too frequently. Cross-cultural differences. Wells Fargo. Volkswagen. and the U.K.,

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

As we were looking through your responses, we realized you were answering as if you were in an interview – and that’s smart. With that in mind, we categorized your responses and selected some Honorable Mentions before we identified the winner. What we didn’t expect was the diversity of responses! You wowed us!

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

Harvard Business

APRIL 10, 2017

” According to Lees, “you have more leverage” to shape your job description and improve your salary and benefits package “right after you are made an offer than you do in your first two years of employment.” Shift your mindset. Now for the hard part: deciding whether to accept it or not.

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Rick Conlow

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Since you are reading this article, we assume you are a good coach, and you are interested in elevating your approach. This means enhancing your career and team’s success. This means enhancing your career and team’s success. Transforming from a good to great coach equals turning disengaged employees into top performers.

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Harvard Business

MAY 14, 2018

” Currently, all 10 of the directors on Amazon’s board are white, and seven are men. Companies like Microsoft and Costco use this type of process for their board selection, as increasing diversity of candidate slates is an important step for increasing diversity of the board overall. David Ryder/Stringer/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2016

What needs to change? In today’s fast-changing, unpredictable environments, companies must simultaneously exploit existing profitable business models to run their core business and also explore new products, markets, and models to drive growth. Large, well-established companies in need of long-term growth often turn to M&A.

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