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Front-Line To C-Suite | Inside The Heart and Mind of Former Disney COO and Experience Steward Jim MacPhee

Consulting Matters

Today, I'm chatting with one of my favorite executives of all time, Jim MacPhee, recently retired Chief Operating Officer and self-proclaimed Experience Steward for Walt Disney World Parks and Resorts. In January 2018, Jim was promoted to the role of Chief Operating Officer/Senior Vice President, Walt Disney World® Resort.

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Embracing Selfless Love in the Workplace

Organizational Talent Consulting

Numerous studies identify failure as often tied to misalignment between the organization and its operational environment. The following short video from leadership guru Ken Blanchard provides some thoughts on the power of servant leadership in today's workplace. Selfless love brings out the best in how people think, act, and feel.

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Virtual Coaching is Inevitable but is it Effective?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Virtual coaching can include asynchronous communications, such as email and text messaging through a virtual coaching app, and synchronous such as voice and video communications, that provide immediate feedback with a coach. An excellent virtual coach has the ability to: Operate the tools and functions of collaborative technology.

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How Companies Are Already Using AI

Harvard Business

When Joseph Sirosh joined Amazon.com in 2004, he began seeing the value of AI to reduce fraud, bad debt, and the number of customers who didn’t get their goods and suppliers who didn’t get their money. Related Video. Disclosure: Microsoft is a TCS client.). Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time.

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Rush to Judgment Part II: Media Myths Shattered; Whodunit? Four Arrested

MishTalk

citizen and journalist with the Russian edition of Forbes magazine, in 2004. Putin shut off video cameras, and that makes Putin a prime suspect. Reality : Cameras were operative and that helped track the killers. Four Arrested Although two were the trigger-men, four have now been arrested. Media Myth : (as originally reported).

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ZS Associates Firm Profile

Management Consulted

In 2004, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) awarded Andy and Prabha the Marketing Science Practice Prize for outstanding implementation of marketing science concepts and methods, recognizing the sales territory alignment system they had developed and implemented through the work of ZS Associates.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business

Leaders who succeed at the job usually do so by combing through the company in search of noncore assets to shed, businesses to sell, activities to stop, functions to eliminate, and product lines to simplify, as Steve Jobs did when he took back the reins at Apple in 1997, and as Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, the CEO of Lego, did in 2004.

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