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Back to the Basics in Leadership and Life with former EVP of Operations for the Walt Disney World Resort Lee Cockerell

Consulting Matters

Today I'm talking with Lee Cockerell, the former Executive Vice President of Operations for Walt Disney resort and currently a consultant, author, and speaker. In this episode, you'll hear: How Lee evolved as a leader by shedding defensiveness and operating in trust. Why you need to create a system to be a person of your word.

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Architect Your Business Joy with Jodee Peevor

Consulting Matters

How to build your business by operating in joyful work. About my guest: I launched my web design agency Jigsaw, back in 2005, which established me as a Joomla and WordPress expert. If you are wondering how to have it all, as you define "it all," this interview will give you a boost of inspiration on exactly how to make it happen!

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How Tony’s Chocolonely Created a Purpose-Driven (and Profitable) Supply Chain

Harvard Business

In this article, the authors look at the experience of Tony’s Chocolonely, a Dutch chocolate brand founded in 2005, which set itself a mission to sell 100% slavery-free chocolate. In the cocoa industry, for example, the average farmer cultivates between three and five hectares to earn less than two dollars a day.

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Say Goodbye to Strategic Planning? What’s Next?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Leaders facing environmental conditions like today without scenario planning will likely either stop strategic planning and only operate in the short term or take too much risk and gamble on one specific future. Start by identifying what signals movement in each driver and scenario. References: Chermack, T. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.

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What does a Business Consultant do?

ConsultX

A business consultant is an individual who works closely with business owners and managers to improve operations and efficiency. The ConsultX ™ Method Since 2005, we have been developing our own structure of Business Consulting that differs in small, but critical ways from regular Consulting and Business Consulting. Accelo states: ?”A

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Top 10 Consulting Firms in the Middle East

Management Consulted

They opened their first office in the region in 2007 after beginning to consistently work here in 2005. Oliver Wyman has been a player in the Middle East consulting sphere for a while now, and has now opened three offices in the region: Dubai in 2005, and Abu Dhabi & Riyadh in 2010. Deloitte M.E Oliver Wyman. Roland Berger.

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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

In 1999, rock-and-roll legend Rikk promoted me within six months from sales associate and drum department head at Sam Ash Music to Operations Manager, where I not only led a warehouse crew, but I became the regional trainer on an Oracle-based POS system at the age of 23.

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