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4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Communication Effectiveness

Organizational Talent Consulting

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. Appreciative Inquiry is a positive, strength-based approach to change management that can bring new life to change initiatives. Denning, S.

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How SMEs can welcome the decade of Organizational Culture

Asamby Consulting

A researcher wrote in the Journal of Organizational Behavior "Overall, department culture was found to consistently predict higher subsequent levels of customer satisfaction ratings and […] sales, with no evidence obtained for a reciprocal performance-to-culture feedback loop. Interesting, right?

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The Right Way to Use Analytics Isn’t for Planning

Harvard Business

In July 2015, Novartis launched its new heart failure drug, Entresto, which Forbes in 2014 predicted would be a blockbuster — with expected sales of $10 billion annually — as the potential market in the US exceeds 5 million people with a heart failure condition. billion sales in India. Laura Schneider for HBR.

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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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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. Microsoft is a case in point.

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

Consulting Success

This was 2014. For most of those large firms, an add-on is, “Can we get a change management person in here and on the team too? If we’re not at the epicenter of the sale and where the change needs to take place, it’s unlikely it’s going to happen. I said, “Do you mean the proposal I wrote in 2010?”