Martinka Consulting

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

The July 29, 2015 edition of the Wall Street Journal featured an article titled, “The Cost of Germany’s Graying Managers.” One example in the WSJ article was about Autohaus Ochs GmbH, a Volkswagen dealership. My final example (from the article) is about the Brockhaus Group.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Many pro services firms still use fragmented systems or analog methods like spreadsheets to manage projects. It prevents you from generating reliable cash-flow forecasts and makes it incredibly difficult to manage resources. Does your culture enable problem-solving/exploration? How often do you release new products/services?

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 26, 2019

It is an approach I developed that is tailored for answering these questions in job interviews for management consulting, as well as interviews for senior executive positions in industry. For the purposes of this article, I will describe the PARADE method from the perspective of the job-seeker. A nticipated Consequence. E nd-Result.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2018

When promoted to his new role, he inherited a group of district sales managers responsible for selling to hospital systems in their respective geographies. Role Models: shape the values, behavior, and culture of the organization. The result: wasted time and unnecessary frustration. In Nicolas’s case, it was the former.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2017

Most of the LCPs we studied began with the task of ensuring the PE firm itself had the right talent, culture, and leadership, and then moved on to do the same for portfolio companies. Many LCPs are either conducting this work themselves, or they are responsible for vetting and managing external due diligence consultants to oversee this work.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

Analysts say that Sears may still have time to stage a turnaround. Its brand still has clout; its name is as steeped in American culture as Coke and Levi’s. It should start with its internal culture. The company says it is taking action to ensure its future viability. So what should Sears do now?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

In a PWC survey of more than 2,000 global executives, managers, and employees, only 54% of respondents said their change initiatives succeeded — and the most frequently cited problem (by 65% of those surveyed) was change fatigue. ” And she restored the company’s profitability — the turnaround was a success.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

You accept your first job as a manager in a fast growth tech company, thinking: “How much different could this be from my former company—a financial services firm? Management is management, right?” How talent management is changing. A tenure of two years makes you an “old-timer.”

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

I found that the companies that survive and thrive are good at aligning their organizations around three critical but competing activities : Box 1: Manage the present at peak efficiency and profitability. One effective way is to work on culture. Box 2 muscle requires a culture where honest Box 2 questions are encouraged.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2017

” The management literature is overflowing with advice on becoming the boss. With transparency in succession planning becoming a priority, career management for senior executives becomes easier. You can be stronger at one of them, but you need to know how to manage both. Most companies have a distinct culture.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2016

The types of private equity firms and the approaches to managing these firms has evolved over the last 40 years through three general phases. These buy outs shifted agency from owners to managers; “corporate raiders” worked with high-yield debt to fund these turnarounds. Large private equity firms (e.g.,

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Disclosure: Although Avaya currently has no ties with Innovators International, my interest in Avaya’s remarkable turnaround was initially kindled by the dozens of conversations I had with many people at Avaya when the company was a partner with our organization.). Avaya embraced innovation as a risk management exercise.

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2016

Contrary to popular belief, cultivating a high-trust culture is not a “soft” skill — it’s a hard necessity. This clear manifestation of respect powers huge inflections in organizational culture. Put another way, it’s the foundational element of high-performing organizations. But he listened to them.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Volvo’s turnaround over the last decade offers a great example. ” Sallstrom had a second reason for looking outside the company: He and Jacoby believed that only an infusion of fresh talent could transform Volvo’s culture into an entrepreneurial one. For years, Volvo was a brand stuck between a rock and a hard place.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The pattern is clear, and diligent leaders often devote countless resources to planning out the perfect change management initiative. One study found that when it comes to decision making, coordination, and conflict management, teams that have a low degree of self-awareness are less than half as effective as teams that are highly self-aware.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co. He was very smart and polished but didn’t see how his pointed words and micromanaging ways were affecting his management team. He quickly recognized that he had to institute a new strategy and culture. Morale was terrible, and important initiatives were flagging.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2016

While the focus in recent years on giving more support to onboarding managers and executives unquestionably has produced excellent results – such as reduction in new-hire failure rates from 40% to 10%-15% in many companies – the problem of ineffective inboarding has been ignored. Why dangerous?

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

An office environment reflects and reinforces a business’s core values, through the placement of different teams and functions and design elements that reflect culture, brand, and values. The scrappy functionality of the space culturally constrained their evolution from start-up to mature business.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 5, 2016

We were given full access to the academies’ management information systems, leaders, staff and students so we could see how they worked, the decisions they’d made and the impact they’d had. Like any turnaround, there is no magic bullet — a series of remedial steps need to be taken. So what did we find?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

The idea of boomerang employees — workers who voluntarily leave a job at an organization and then rejoin that same organization at a later date — is gaining more and more acceptance from hiring managers and in the labor force. You might have “realized the culture was wonderful and you miss it.” ” Onboard.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Ambitious women may be hesitant to self-promote, driven more by a sense of purpose and a desire to contribute value and shape culture. Nearly one-quarter said creating a positive culture was one of their most important accomplishments. ’ I went anyhow.” I really just wanted a good job with a good company.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

In the end, a combination of unattainable objectives, an environment that lacked transparency, and a culture where failure was not perceived to be a viable option, led some VA administrators and clinic staff to manipulate data to make it appear as though the wait time goal was being achieved.

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

I led the global management appraisal practice of our own executive search firm, Egon Zehnder. Japan’s educational institutions and cultural work ethic give its managers a jump-start in their careers, but most companies don’t continue the development process as far as it could go.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

As a school leader sets off on this journey, how do they know what to do, when to do it, who to listen to, and how to manage critics along the way? Our study of the actions and impact of 411 leaders of UK academies found that only 62 of them managed their turnaround successfully and sustainably transformed their school.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

He developed a three-year plan for his turnaround vision, which was translated into annual and quarterly operating plans, and biquarterly responsibilities for his executive team. .” The challenge faced by all our study CEOs was how to instill that both/and mindset throughout the entire organization.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2016

How talent management is changing. Leaders must have the vision and forward-focus to anticipate how technology could disrupt the business model and the skill to mobilize the organization for change and drive a culture of collaboration. Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

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