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How to Lead Employees through Cultural Change

LSA Global

Southwest Airlines) and some strong cultures hurt performance (i.e. Use company-wide forums, one-on-one meetings with key stakeholders, team meetings, and anonymous pulse surveys to gather feedback and keep track of how the change is progressing. We believe that organizational cultures exist by design or by default.

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The Barriers Big Companies Face When They Try to Act Like Lean Startups

Harvard Business

” And yet the lean startup methodology, born in Silicon Valley as a way for startups to tune in to customer needs with limited resources, has been gaining major momentum inside big companies like General Electric, Alaska Airlines, Telefonica, 3M, and W.L. ’ Sometimes you need to be reminded of that.”

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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business

This situation exists because, believe it or not, a lot of organizations lack any mechanisms to help them actively manage the evaluation, selection, monitoring, and adjustment of digital investments to achieve clearly defined business results while meeting clear risk and return expectations. Implementation criteria.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

For instance, we examined predatory pricing in the airline industry and illegal product tying by Apple, Microsoft, and AT&T. Consultants get to travel quite a lot and meet different kinds of people and this makes them diverse and enables them to have insights, which others can only strive for. Nothing beats experiential learning.