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What's Servant Leadership?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Have you ever wondered what servant leadership is? Maybe you already understand the basic concepts but have questions about how servant leadership differs from other leadership styles or if a servant leadership approach is appropriate for your team. For example, consider two employees walking down a hall.

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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

Do you want to know what executives in world-class companies think about leadership and why they hire consultants and coaches? 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.

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4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Communication Effectiveness

Organizational Talent Consulting

Effective leadership is communication. A few things about effective leadership communication are proven based on several studies over the past two decades. With these recommendations, you can focus on the critical few proven leadership communication solutions that create business results. Why Leadership Communication Matters.

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How to Use Reflection to Bring Out Your Best in the New Year

Organizational Talent Consulting

Leadership is about recognizing and leveraging the gap between stimulus and response to make a choice rather than a knee-jerk reaction. Like a computer operating system governs the computer's processing capability, our internal traits and attributes influence our external behaviors and habits. References: Densten, I. & Gray, J.

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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. McKinsey works relentlessly towards promoting gender diversity in the Gulf, and empowers their women in leadership. Knowing the local language is an added advantage, and in some cases may be a requirement to apply. Roland Berger.

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Book Review – “How the mighty fall” by Jim Collins

Tom Spencer

Leadership was also at fault with the head of the group, Vijay Mallya, exhibiting undisciplined extravagance in the low-margin aviation industry leading him to borrow heavily from the banks. Kingfisher’s acquisition in 2007 of Air Deccan, a lowcost airline, fits the quote perfectly. Conclusion. Image: Flickr.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

After building a successful model in financial services, Oliver Wyman expanded to offer pure strategy consulting services to non-financial services groups and now has 2 internal divisions that operate relatively independently. Strategic Information Technology and Operations. Oliver Wyman became own firm again. Mercer buys Oliver Wyman.