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Reach Business Success with Consultants

Business Consulting Agency

By tapping into consultants’ expertise, clients gain access to valuable insights, benchmarking data, and proven strategies that drive informed decision-making and operational excellence. A survey by Deloitte found that 63% of executives view risk management as a strategic priority.

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How to De-Risk Working with a Freelance Management Consultant

Comatch

More than ever, organizations are using independent experts and freelance management consultants to address critical challenges. In a recent webinar, I addressed some of the typical issues that arise when working with a freelance management consultant. Independent consultants aren’t likely to have benchmark data on hand.

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Effective Governance: Overcoming Bias and Inertia

Tom Spencer

To overcome this challenge, senior managers should set the tone by encouraging employees to think beyond established boundaries, challenge conventional wisdom, and propose new ideas. Organizations can also adopt agile governance practices that allow for iterative decision-making and faster adaptation to the changing business landscape.

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Mastering Change: 8 Steps for Aligning Top Leadership for Change

LSA Global

The data on successful organizational change management is pretty bleak – by most accounts 70% of all organizational change efforts fail to deliver expected results. We know from change management simulation data that most leaders do not have the skills needed to successfully lead change. That is a shame.

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How to Think Differently About a Flexible Workforce - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CATALANT

Harvard Business

In today’s rapidly changing business environment, companies that rely solely on full-time employees are finding they have neither the skills nor the agility to sustain success. Winning in the future will require a rigorous approach to accessing and managing independent workers. For instance, 40 percent of U.S.

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As AI Makes More Decisions, the Nature of Leadership Will Change

Harvard Business

Meta-analytic studies reviewing 50 years of research suggest that personality traits such as curiosity, extraversion, and emotional stability are twice as important as IQ — the benchmark metric for reasoning capability — when it comes to predicting leadership effectiveness. Insight Center. The Risks and Rewards of AI.

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The First Step to Fixing U.S. Manufacturing

Harvard Business

Many of the small and midsize manufacturers that did manage to survive kept going by cutting costs, which has led to stagnant wage growth. They already report that the domestic supplier base is hollowed out, depriving them of the agility they need to respond quickly to new market opportunities. manufacturers are taking notice.