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How to Keep Your Pulse on the People Side of Organizational Change

Organizational Talent Consulting

Why you need an organizational change framework Benjamin Franklin suggested that the only certainty in life is death and taxes. I would add change. And as the world changes, leaders and businesses must change too. Leading change is more than communicating the features, advantages, and benefits of Change.

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2 Attributes of Great Change Leaders

Organizational Talent Consulting

In an environment of perpetual change, the enemy of great change leadership is good change management. Good change management involves minimizing disruptions, avoiding costly mistakes, and control. In contrast, great change leadership maximizes business speed, efficiency, and innovation. Winston, B.

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

Harmonious Workplaces

In 2006, after attaining my MBA, I answered the clarion call of entrepreneurship and started my own business, Behold! In 2021, Dr. Casey DeBruyn recommended, based on my interests and the content of my schoolwork, that I consider organizational development (OD) and change management as career paths in consulting.

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4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Communication Effectiveness

Organizational Talent Consulting

From being vulnerable to saying what others don't want to hear to endless Zoom meetings. The next time you find yourself in a meeting, and you don't know why you are there. Appreciative Inquiry is a positive, strength-based approach to change management that can bring new life to change initiatives. Solomon, A., &

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Your Organization Wastes Time. Here’s How to Fix It.

Harvard Business

The symptoms may seem to be minor annoyances and inconveniences that could be wiped out without much effort — too much process, too many meetings, meaningless goals, and time wasted on work that no one will ever care about. Now his inbox collects fewer than 40 daily emails, and meetings are more focused and efficient.

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Research Shows That Smaller M&A Deals Work Out Better

Harvard Business

The giant German publisher made a decisive move from print to digital by making 67 mostly small acquisitions from 2006 to 2012, while launching 90 publications organically and divesting eight. You meet the bar on this lever if you are among the top 20% in your industry in your ratio of capital spending to sales.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

Established as a separate division in 2006, AWS ultimately addressed a long-standing analyst complaint about Amazon — that its core was only barely profitable. Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy has been with the effort since it began as an internal challenge to scale IT infrastructure.