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Avoiding Costly Business Mistakes With Consultants

Business Consulting Agency

A single misstep, whether in product quality, customer service, or ethical considerations, can tarnish a brand’s image irreparably. These inefficiencies hinder productivity and hamper the ability to adapt to market dynamics. The tangible impact of consulting services is reflected in case studies and quantifiable metrics.

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5 Entrepreneurship Skills You’ll Get from an MBA

Tom Spencer

Appreciating the importance of ethics and reputation. The most valuable asset of a business is not its products, cash in the bank, computers, or proprietary data, but its reputation. An MBA also allows you to sharpen your hard skills in areas such as finances, operations, strategy, planning, supply-chain management, and legal.

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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

By not dancing, CEOs cost their companies billions of dollars of lost employee innovation, productivity, and customer service. Consider GM as a case study. A finance executive said this of the decades-old corporate attitude, “We are GM. Here are three reasons why CEOs let this happen: CEO priorities upside down.

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2024 Events for Project Managers, Business Leaders, and Industry Professionals

Epicflow

2024 Healthcare Project Delivery Conference January, 30-31, San Diego, USA This year’s conference will focus on implementing developments in procurement, design, financing, and O&M in healthcare projects. The program of the symposium includes case studies, lessons learned, academic research, actionable tips, and more.

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Want Less-Biased Decisions? Use Algorithms.

Harvard Business

” Lastly, by looking at historical data on publicly traded companies, a team of finance professors set out to build an algorithm to choose the best board members for a given company. This is what economists call a Pareto improvement , where one policy beats out the alternative on every outcome we care about.

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Resolving Executive Conflict: Finding a Path Forward

Confessions of a Consultant

Conflict Downsides : While conflict around ideas can actually be a sign of organization health, Interpersonal conflict can be enormously destructive to individuals, damaging productivity and lowering confidence. Derogatory: “Finance: where ideas go to die”. Case Study: I worked with a financial services client on a strategy project.

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Make Sure Your Team’s Workload Is Divided Fairly

Harvard Business

” There are real risks involved in not distributing the workload in an equitable way, says Julie Morgenstern, productivity expert and author of Never Check E-Mail in the Morning. “It’s important to make sure your employees understand you don’t equate hours with productivity,” according to Davey.

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