Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2020

To take advantage of this opportunity place focus on building agility, aligning the organization, operating as a team of teams, and developing your people. At the core was building an agile organization – shifting mindsets, creating processes, and developing capabilities. Develop a Team of Teams. Build Agility.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2017

But I’ve learned key lessons to help managers turn lofty goals — such as making learning and development a central pillar of the workday — into real actions that mitigate damage to, and even help strengthen, the bottom line. Here’s how. Learning and development are also a responsibility of the employee.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2017

Every organization has a slightly different framework of expected experience, but I like to look at this through the lens of strategy and operations. You can be stronger at one of them, but you need to know how to manage both. Likewise, I know numerous chief HR officers who have done tours in business, operations, HR, and elsewhere.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 28, 2016

Booz developed a theory that businesses could be more profitable and more successful if they could garner advice from impartial outsiders. In 2008, after months of negotiations, the commercial side broke away and became Booz & Company, with the governmental side keeping the name Booz Allen Hamilton. BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON HISTORY .

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Management Consulted

MAY 21, 2015

Booz developed a theory that said businesses could be more profitable and successful if they could garner advice from impartial outsiders. In 2008 however, after months of negotiations, the commercial side broke away and became Booz & Company, with the governmental side keeping the name Booz Allen Hamilton. In 1914, Edwin G.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Case Study #1: Be thoughtful about how you position yourself to the hiring manager. In 2008, after the global economy took a nosedive, the company that Lauren McAdams was working for went belly up. Lauren, who had several years of professional experience, a background in development, and a degree in business, was out of a job.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 17, 2013

Nearly 40% of car factories in North America now operate on work schedules that push production well past 80 hours a week, compared with 11% in 2008, said Ron Harbour, a senior partner with the Oliver Wyman Inc. But we don''t know how to do that yet.". Please consider Open All Night: America''s Car Factories. Who is Buying Cars?

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2016

As if that weren’t tough enough, another challenge for corporate leaders is how to make sense of strategic alignment at both the team / business unit level (or division or department, however it is classified) and at the enterprise level. And yet it is possible.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

They might focus on how incumbents cope with the rapid obsolescence of their old capabilities, say, or with internal resistance to inevitable change. In the traditional model of electricity generation, large power plants produce power at a centralized location, which operates at a considerable distance from the points of consumption.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

The blizzard of conferences, initiatives, articles, and reports on how to prepare for the changes technology will bring to our economy is important. Developing Skills that Will Matter in the Future. But at good jobs companies, these very skills are already demanded, developed, and put to use. Here’s why.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 7, 2014

In 2000, the group launched its first website, www.bridgespan.org, and started operations from a Boston-based office. In 2003, Bridgespan created the “Bridgestar” initiative to focus on leadership development and to help professionals transition into nonprofit careers. Strategy Development. Youth Development.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2018

But over and over again in our three decades of experience as talent development and retention specialists, we’ve seen that companies consistently overlook half of them. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When a private equity firm adds a new company to its portfolio, analysts rigorously size up its financial, operational, and competitive condition. Selectively developing top team members to accomplish the strategy. Not seeking CEOs who value talent development. In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2017

Because organizations are increasingly focusing on early talent development to attract and retain young talent, it’s important to understand the best way to accelerate their growth as leaders. We examined data from 72 executive coaching engagements we conducted from 2008 to 2014.

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Consultant Ninja

JUNE 26, 2009

I work for a boutique operations consulting firm and we (as well as our competitors) sell potential clients with the tagline of "we will actually IMPLEMENT the changes with you!" " I've recently wondered how true it was that the strat firms actually do just provide a fancy binder or ppt slides and hit the road.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2017

One luxury leader, LVMH, provides a great example of how to build a robust sustainability program. It was part of a larger overhaul that included automating some distillery operations, which gave it better data and helped slash energy and water use. Like many luxury brands, Krug was struggling after the 2008 financial crisis.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

While I was working with them, the focus of my PhD gradually shifted toward how economic integration and various factors (domestic, international, political, economic) have impacted Japanese companies’ corporate strategy and operations over the past couple of decades. This next one was submitted by the father of a premium client.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Through my leadership development work with the United Nations (UN), I’ve been privileged to work with professionals who operate in some of the world’s most challenging contexts. Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure. How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 22, 2015

I started at Yale in 2008. That project was really interesting to me because one of my first tasks was to lay out the space for the client and explain what types of trends they should be watching as they develop their product roadmap. Yeah, definitely. I can’t speak for my team, but I can give you some background on myself.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2017

This gave us a list of 33 traits that help leaders in four areas: developing inner resources, connecting with others, setting the tone, and leading the team. Stress tolerance, self-regard, and optimism help leaders develop inner resources. We asked survey recipients what inspired them about their colleagues.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

In this post, I’ll use a series of simple plots to explain how to tap the potential of predictive analytics, sidestep the perils, and bring both the data and your good judgment to bear. Algorithms only operate on the inputs they’re provided. The obvious answer is employ both computer-based programs and your own intuition.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 7, 2023

HOW TO READ THIS WHITE PAPER This white paper is divided into five sections. The purpose includes creating value for customers, investing in employees, dealing fairly with suppliers, and supporting the communities where corporations operate. Leaders must be able to operate both within and upon the organization's culture.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2016

But by the 1990s it had run aground: It hadn’t properly developed systems to implement its growth strategy internally, and so that strategy broke down at dozens of points of execution on the front line—with customers, crew, staff on the shore and the company’s travel agent partners. Codify best practices.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Learning and development opportunities are integrated into day-to-day duties. Employees appreciate Accenture’s phenomenal opportunities to develop key skills, especially in technology-heavy areas. Career progression is linear, with a focus on developing young talent. BAIN & COMPANY. Employee Satisfaction. women and 49.6%

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Consultant Ninja

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

But a couple of defaults that really annoy me, and I dont know how to fix them. Ive come across many of the same limitations but Ive not been able to find a way to overcome them whilst making it appear as native operation of MS Excel. but you may find yourself morphing into a VBA developer over time. Develop a template.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. Case closed (until engineers develop an algorithm that does the job better). That quality made him (arguably) the quintessential HBR author.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 17, 2013

The latest proposals could see up to 126 people being consulted on how to wind up a bank, even though agreement might need to be reached over the course of a weekend while financial markets are closed. A big bank collapse would dwarf the available resources; some €473bn of capital has been pumped into EU banks since 2008.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Class migrants (white-collar professionals born to blue-collar families) report that “professional people were generally suspect” and that managers are college kids “who don’t know s**t about how to do anything but are full of ideas about how I have to do my job,” said Alfred Lubrano in Limbo.

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