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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

A controlled study involving leaders across different markets found a positive correlation between the leader's effectiveness and employee retention, sales, margin, labor costs, and net profit. Executive leadership and organizational performance: Suggestions for a new theory and methodology. & Lord, R. Collins, J. HarperBusiness.

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The Best Approach to Decision Making Combines Data and Managers’ Expertise

Harvard Business

.” Rather than reducing reliance on intuition, the advanced methodologies of big data require managers to use even more intuition to make sense of the growing number of outputs and recommendations being generated by data models. The ABS recommended launching the new model six months earlier than the client had planned.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. Or they may even put the entire company up for sale. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Then it wasn’t. (In

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ZS Associates Firm Profile

Management Consulted

Today’s emphasis is on ZS Associates (pronounced Zee S in the USA) – a premier boutique firm focused on sales force and marketing optimization. Upon realizing that their findings were highly applicable to the problems of sales force sizing and resource allocation, they decided to investigate further. sales force teams.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

” “I was working in a wine shop during my undergrad and started to realize that I was able to close more sales by being a trusted advisor to my client rather than acting like a sales rep. I studied everything I could about wine and became very knowledgeable in that field in a relatively short time.

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60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed

Harvard Business

Cross-border flows of digitally transmitted data have grown manifold, accounting for more than one-third of the increase in global GDP in 2014, even as the free-flow of goods and services and cross-border capital have ebbed in the aftermath of the 2008 recession. We always urge you to read the methodology carefully.

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The Mindset That Wins Consulting Work With Fortune 500 Companies with Mindy Millward: Podcast #24

Consulting Success

We have a set of consultants who work with us off and on since 2009 or 2008, that we would pull in when we’ve all of a sudden sold too much work. We’ve invested a fair amount of time getting to know each other and getting aligned around methodology and how we think about clients. How do you do that?