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4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Communication Effectiveness

Organizational Talent Consulting

From being vulnerable to saying what others don't want to hear to endless Zoom meetings. 18% reported a failure to close a sale. Your degree of self-awareness , self-management, motivation, empathy and interpersonal skills make up your emotional intelligence. Too often, change processes begin with what is wrong.

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Research Shows That Smaller M&A Deals Work Out Better

Harvard Business

Our data shows that from 2004 to 2014, WPP made a staggering 271 acquisitions — which averages to more than one every two weeks — 60% more than the next busiest acquirer during that decade, Google (now Alphabet). While nearly doubling its labor productivity, PCC managed to reduce its overhead ratio by three percentage points.

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Why So Many High-Profile Digital Transformations Fail

Harvard Business

GE also went to work on transforming internal processes like sales and supplier relationships. Nike halved the size of its digital unit in 2014 by discontinuing its Nike+ Fuelband activity tracker and some other investments. Some performance indicators, including service margins, began to improve.

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

Consulting Success

They pre-sell us to clients saying, “You have to meet these people. This was 2014. Us not meeting the businesspeople doesn’t add value. For most of those large firms, an add-on is, “Can we get a change management person in here and on the team too? They’re not consultants.” Click To Tweet.

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A Transformation Is Underway at U.S. Veterans Affairs. We Got an Inside Look.

Harvard Business

In 2014, the U.S. On July 30, 2014, exactly 13 months after retiring as P&G’s Chairman and CEO, McDonald was sworn in as the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. billion, its budget in 2015 was slightly higher than the total gross sales of General Motors. Department of Veterans Affairs was in crisis.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

Satya Nadella, for instance, joined Microsoft in 1992 and worked his way up to running its cloud computing effort, building that business unit into a viable new growth platform before becoming CEO, in 2014. They Use Culture Change to Drive Engagement. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen.