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Mergers & Acquisitions: The Importance of Creating a Shared Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

Culture is acutely critical during notable changes, such as M&As, which offer an opportunity for a renewed start on culture. When two organizations combine through mergers and acquisitions for economic reasons, it is doubtful that the two cultures will remain precisely the same.

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Want a Data-Driven Organization? Start with Your Talent Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

Talent Strategy Step #1: Identify the right analytical skill sets After establishing your data-analytics strategy that is tightly aligned with the mission and culture of the ogranization you need to determine the roles and the knowledge, skills and abilities of the talent most critical to meeting the needs.

Talent 79
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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

Yet, their work cultures produce 85% disengaged employees. By not dancing, CEOs cost their companies billions of dollars of lost employee innovation, productivity, and customer service. to 17.9%, from 1980 to 2015. CEOs focus on data, facts, figures, and metrics. Consider GM as a case study. We know everything.

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies, 2016

Harvard Business

As the newly released 2016 Empathy Index demonstrates, empathy, which is about understanding our emotional impact on others and making change as a result, is more important to a successful business than it has ever been, correlating to growth, productivity, and earnings per employee. This year we added a carbon metric.

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Why There’s No Such Thing as a Corporate Entrepreneur

Harvard Business

Real entrepreneurs constantly worry about things that could prove fatal to their company: cash crunches, technical problems with the product, the emergence of a well-funded rival. In March 2015, Target hired three outsiders as “entrepreneurs-in-residence.” Fear of failure. Finding new ways to fuel growth is essential.

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BTS Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

BTS GROUP INTERVIEWS AND CULTURE. Most recently, in 2015, BTS acquired AVO Vision, a company that develops tools and curriculum with a focus on communication to help boost performance and team morale. Household Products. BTS GROUP CULTURE. The culture at BTS Group is described by employees as fun, tight-knit, and quirky.

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Marketers Need to Stop Focusing on Loyalty and Start Thinking About Relevance

Harvard Business

But his framework also offers a model for rethinking the traditional four P’s of marketing: product , price , place , and promotion. Pride: Customers feel proud and inspired to use the company’s products and services. Consumers typically associate big food companies with mass-production methods and plastic packaging.