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

Harmonious Workplaces

I did this while attending UChicago and picking up extra cash cleaning industrial carpets, being a production artist for GES Exposition Services during the summer, or working a Blockbuster. In 2009, the recession from 2008 forced me to pivot, sell the business, and reenter consulting full-time. That’s a lot of bending!

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3 Tactics for Accelerating Company Performance Despite an Economic Downturn

Organizational Talent Consulting

Change management should be presented in a way that leads to different ways of thinking and acting. Organizational Development can support the implementation workshops with change models and activities for the workshops. link] Performance Accelerator 2: Organizational Change Resiliency. 2009, July 22). Beatty, K.

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Consultant Ninja: Consultants = Big Strategy, Little Execution. Client.

Consultant Ninja

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Friday, June 26, 2009. June 26, 2009 at 2:18 PM. June 26, 2009 at 2:46 PM. June 27, 2009 at 3:50 AM. June 28, 2009 at 1:02 AM. NumbaJockey.

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6 Organizational Culture Change Strategies

Organizational Talent Consulting

The Journal of Product Innovation Management, 30 (4), 763-781. Diagnosing and changing organizational culture: Based on the competing values framework (Third ed.). Organizational culture and innovation: A meta‐analytic review. Cameron, K. & Quinn, R. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. Gregory, B. Harris, S. Armenakis, A.

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The Critical Skills for Leading Major Change in America’s Health System

Harvard Business

health system, change management is an essential skill for public and private leaders alike. For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system?

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The Challenges GM Is Facing, and the Reasoning Behind Its Plant Closures

Harvard Business

While the job losses are a terrible blow to those workers and the families they support and the local economies where the factories are located, the decision could prevent the kind of crisis that resulted in it seeking bankruptcy protection in 2009 and a $50 billion bailout by the U.S. government. When and how are the best ways to do it?

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Samsung, Shame, and Corporate Atonement

Harvard Business

The UK’s Financial Services Authority declared that it would be unjust to single out individual wrongdoers for punishment; that the bankers’ actions around the financial crisis were the product of a pervasive culture; and that a one-off symbolic punishment would be of little significance.