Organizational Talent Consulting

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Great leaders achieve great results and create great company cultures. 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. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93(6), 1438-1446. Kouzes, J., &

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2017

As Netflix and other streaming platforms continue to grow and emphasize exclusive content, we risk losing pieces of our cultural memory — forgetting about some of the classic films that define a generation. And we appreciate that Netflix is reportedly spending $6 billion on original content in 2017.

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1 to 1

MAY 10, 2021

These centers are often where customers interact with a brand more directly, and their experiences can bring swift consequences: positive experiences can lead to sales and repeat business, while negative ones can turn customers off a brand for good. These days, more is expected of service and sales associates than ever before.

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Martinka Consulting

JULY 15, 2017

On May 25, 2017, the Wall Street Journal’s tech column was about how almost all of us have personal information exposed online, much more than we realize. Job search – wouldn’t it be nice if prospective employees knew about the company’s culture before accepting the job? The June 1 column had more on how to reduce information exposure.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2017

HEB, Costco, Trader Joe’s, and QuikTrip all made Glassdoor’s 2017 “Best Places to Work: Employees’ Choice” list , released in early December. But they also score higher on culture. What is it about their cultures that makes them such good places to work?

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2018

This was a key finding in a 2017 report we coauthored for the Ascend Foundation ( “The Illusion of Asian Success” ), analyzing EEOC data on Silicon Valley’s management pipeline. We have found that in many companies throughout the country, Asian-related programs are geared toward cultural inclusion, not management diversity.

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2017

Drucker Forum 2017: Growth and Inclusive Prosperity. This article is one in a series related to the 9th Global Peter Drucker Forum, taking place in November 2017 in Vienna, Austria. By being both intensive and nurturing, this kind of culture helps sustain an insider mentality on the team. Foster competition and collaboration.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

Drucker Forum 2017: Growth and Inclusive Prosperity. This article is one in a series related to the 9th Global Peter Drucker Forum, taking place in November 2017 in Vienna, Austria. To protect auto dealerships in the 1920s, direct sales by an automobile manufacturer were made illegal in most U.S. to stifle competition.).

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Cheryl Cran

JANUARY 2, 2018

2017 was a big year! We could say that 2017 was the year where all that was hidden or underground came to light. The disruption that we will see even more is to do with ‘people’ – how people are treated, how people are judged, how people are dealt with depending on their culture, their gender or their financial status.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The Empathy Index seeks to answer the question: Which companies are successfully creating empathetic cultures? We break down empathy into categories: ethics, leadership, company culture, brand perception, and public messaging through social media. How do you go about infusing your company culture with more empathy? Methodology.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

.” Fast forward to 2017, and things are improving after three years of work. These goals include aiming for Yelp’s sales teams to match the composition of the diverse communities in which they operate, increasing its proportion of female engineers, and making its culture more inclusive. has increased from 10% to 18%.

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Harvard Business

JULY 28, 2017

In PwC’s 2017 Global Digital IQ Survey, 52% rated their digital IQ as strong. The word “digital” used to mean your company’s investments in IT, and perhaps social media readiness, but now it’s bigger, touching on your company’s overall culture. Jump ahead to 2017, and that same metric is just 18%.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2017

And the impact on Manizales’ culture has not gone unnoticed: “Manizales-Más has opened our city to the world,” was how one young university student put it to me. The criticism came quick, but the seed of the new culture had been planted: growth, not start, was the goal. 1 – Quickly demonstrating new growth.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Brocade, a data and network solutions provider, created a “customer first” program by identifying their top 200 customers, who account for 80% of their sales. Like many retailers, Macy’s has traditionally spent 85% of its marketing budget on driving sales. These members are 2.6 The results?

Marketing 41

Marketing Agile Fashion Sales 41

Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2017

As a free-standing enterprise operating under its own brand, FirstBuild is decidedly not another attempt to transform a traditional company’s corporate culture. The FirstBuild community does everything from product concept through design, engineering, manufacturing and sales on a micro scale. Separation is the key.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

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. In June 2017 the board “retired” Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. Then it wasn’t.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 21, 2015

Tom: LEK offers a range of services including Strategy, Marketing & Sales, Operations and Mergers & Acquisitions. Janine Clifford: We believe our culture is a big differentiator from other firms. Where does LEK do the bulk of its work? Are graduates able to gain exposure to more than one service line?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

During my years at OSHA, where I served as the Assistant Secretary of Labor from 2009 through the beginning of 2017, I received several reports of safety system failures at DuPont facilities. It is a fundamental component of their operating culture. One example of this sticks in my mind. Use the right incentives.

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Operations Chemicals Metrics System 54

Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2018

For example, while it is true that search advertising can be correlated with purchase because customers are in a motivated state to buy, it does not follow that ads caused sales. and 2017 (Mean 3.7, For example, a request to assess how marketing promotions affect sales should also account for the effect of promotions on brand equity.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2017

There’s a meme on the internet, which speaks truth about a dilemma for young people entering the hypercompetitive workforce of 2017. If, at the end of a group meeting, your department head requests more feedback from sales reps on a product line your team has been discussing, volunteer to track down the information.

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Tsavo Neal

APRIL 13, 2017

McKinsey’s homepage, as of April 2017, is clean, modern, and responsive. Their design is based on the history of their culture, their work, and their people. Unless your consultancy is exactly like McKinsey’s, copying their design won’t help fill your sales pipeline. It establishes credibility and trust.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 18, 2017

Completed in February 2017, it is eastern Africa’s largest shopping venue, housing grocery chains, restaurants, and luxury boutiques. Proxy indicators can help companies better understand people’s dominant sources of income — and forecast sales more accurately.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Sales & Marketing: The Elements of Value. Organizational culture: How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics. Have a restful holiday, and we’ll see you in 2017. Finally, here are the most popular articles of the year in eight of the most important topics HBR covers. Managing people: Let Your Workers Rebel.

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