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The Lockdown Unlocks Real Work

Markovitz Consulting

Low-value travel? By now it’s practically a business fable, but when Alan Mulally took the reins at Ford in 2006, senior management actually had “meetings week”—five days each month in which executives held non-stop meetings. Long commutes? Four-hour meetings? Elaborately defined, documented, and monitored processes and procedures?

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3 Steps to Cultivate an Innovation Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

Space travel alone is challenging, but reusing a rocket by landing it on a drone ship takes the complexity to another level. Innovation Culture Step 3: Leadership The role of leadership is to encourage, guide, and empower innovative behaviors. Competing values leadership: Creating value in organizations. Bishop, D., &

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A Commercial Pilot’s 2-Year Plan to Break into Consulting

Management Consulted

in business, clearly have a love for aviation and were a professional in the aviation industry from 2006 to 2010. Were you involved in leadership at all when you were there? Not at the school, just at the church level, just doing different leadership level stuff for our college ministry. 2004 to 2006? Awesome, okay.

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Thinking Like a Consultant – Communicating Core Values

Management Consulted

A 2006 study at Princeton found that it takes just one tenth of a second for people to make judgements about you based on first impressions. Including the time I showed up at the Ritz-Carlton for the sell weekend in a pair of grimy jeans, wearing the same backpack she’d taken with me as I traveled the world.

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Serving on Boards Helps Executives Get Promoted

Harvard Business

When Warren Buffett retired from Coca-Cola’s board in 2006, he said he no longer had the time necessary. When you consider all of the retreats, travel, reading, meeting prep time, transactions, and committee meetings involved, it is a wonder anyone serves at all. It was an incredible leadership school for me.

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Why GE, Boeing, Lowe’s, and Walmart Are Directly Buying Health Care for Employees

Harvard Business

HDP is a third-party administrator with expertise in the development and management of travel surgery programs, providing strategic and operational management of this program. In 2006 Geisinger embarked on a broad care delivery reengineering initiative around cardiac surgery called ProvenCare.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

The list includes a health care company that was once near bankruptcy (DaVita), a software firm whose stock price stagnated for a decade (Microsoft), a travel website that faced overwhelming competition (Priceline), a food giant that seemed to lose its focus (Danone), and a steel company that faced new pressure from lower-cost rivals (ThyssenKrupp).