Brimstone Consulting

APRIL 4, 2023

Recently, Bob had hit a ‘slump,’ a period of several months where he had missed some significant deadlines and had shared with his manager that he was feeling a ‘bit lost’ in his most recent role. Operating out of fear of being fired or on sheer adrenaline is unsustainable. Was he working efficiently or just working hard?

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Recognizing client’s needs for help managing IT operations and resources, IBM Vice President Robert M. Those divisions are IT Services, Global Business Services, Outsourcing Services, Training, and Additional Services – because it’s super clear to have an amorphous Additional Services bucket, right?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Two of the civil engineers that Hari had been managing—Preeti Das and Tuli Khanna—had stepped up. “Why is he calling you on Holi? .”

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

To increase diversity at senior executive levels, more must be known about one group in particular: women of color in midlevel leadership, who successfully developed and progressed beyond individual contributor and first-line management. How did (or didn’t) managers play a role? They pursue management challenges.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Founded in 1989 by three former consultants of the MAC Group (a boutique sales and distribution consulting firm), Cornerstone Research was established to be very different than the general management consulting firm it was birthed from; focused on unique clients, managing delicate client relationships, and offering specialized work.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Do you sweat when nervously thinking about how Disney can expand its operations in Brazil? Master fit questions, conquer case studies, and become the smartest interviewer in the room. Do you stumble when asked why you’d be a great consultant? We know you said yes to at least 2 of those questions.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Once I graduated with my Bachelor’s, I was a financial analyst by day and managed a bar a few nights per week. A year after graduation, my rugby career started to show promise and I quit my analyst job to focus on training and competing. As luck would have it, I was able to take an ownership role at the bar I was managing.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 9, 2015

OC&C Strategy Consultants Chief Executive: Chehab Wahby (Worldwide Managing Partner). This firm was birthed out of the frustration they both felt with their employer, who they believed devoted too much time to operational issues while neglecting strategic analysis. Operational Strategy. Practice Areas . Industries .

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2017

But our experience shows that achieving this requires planning and training prior to launch, as well as good communication and rapid learning in space. Training crew members to manage their care. Before launch, all astronauts are trained to use the medical assets that will be on board.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 3, 2016

As a prospective consultant, one of the things that can seem the most mysterious in the case study prep process is wondering what the interviewer is going to ask you next. Many of you have heard about interviewer-led and interviewee-led case interviews and are wondering how to approach each one appropriately.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 2, 2015

Kearney is a leading global management consulting firm with offices in more than 40 countries. This will be of particular interest for students and recent graduates who are looking to pursue a career in the management consulting industry. Tom: What kind of training and mentoring can graduates expect to receive at A.T.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 9, 2014

The Advisory Board Company is perhaps best known for its membership platform which provides information, research and tools specifically targeted to companies pursuing operational and strategic organization improvement in the U.S. The Advisory Board Company also offers technology, management, and consulting services. Supply chain.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2016

Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. Underlying this notion was the lack of tangible results that could be attributed to management training.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Organizations can encourage managers to talk with their direct reports about what aspects of work they find meaningful, and get managers to share their perspectives with employees, too. increase in annual operating profits. increase in annual operating profits.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

If your company offers internal finance training, take advantage of it. The most important concepts to grasp are “how to measure profitability, EBITDA, operating income, revenue, and operating expenses,” he says. Case Study #1: Partner with a colleague in finance and experiment with numbers. .”

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.”

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2018

Healthcare is a high stress environment, where, understandably, information security training is often not the top priority. Without adequate security awareness and training, people will recklessly open email messages from strangers, click on suspicious links, and take other needless risks.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 17, 2017

Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time. See More Videos > See More Videos > In order to understand how firms have systematically enhanced trust in applied AI, my colleagues Monika Hengstler and Selina Duelli and I conducted nine case studies in the transportation and medical device industries. Related Video.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Self-described “recovering consultant” Blair Enns is the CEO of Win Without Pitching, a sales training organization for creative professionals in the design, advertising, and public relations fields. It’s a sales training organization to creative professionals. I was hired as an account manager, and I grew in those positions.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

“Managers have to learn to de-bias their practices and procedures.” When it comes to biases and hiring, managers need to “think broadly about ways to simplify and standardize the process,” says Bohnet. To begin, you’ll need to understand what hiring prejudices are and how they operate.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2018

” Even if you cannot change your circumstances, “you might be able to change the microenvironment in which you operate.” Case Study #1: Make small adjustments to your environment, and look for ways to enhance your job description. ” With this in mind, over time, Joel changed his management style.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2018

You should first speak to your manager since it’s best if this discussion is “instigated by leadership,” Burkus says. ” As a team, your collective goal is to come up with “agreed-upon norms that you’ll all operate within,” says Burkus. Align team expectations. Can you help?”

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2017

But don’t assume your impressive résumé will guarantee you an offer, says Berrin Erdogan, a professor of management at Portland State University and the lead author of a recent study on the subject. “Hiring managers are not always eager to bring on someone who is overqualified.”

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Particularly at startups or small, private, family-owned companies, employees who don’t get along with their managers are “as good as dead,” Fernández-Aráoz says. Lees suggests trying to have a good and lengthy conversation with your prospective manager “about their vision for the organization.”

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The Nonprofit Consultant

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

After many years as Executive Director for a regional non-profit, Christina created Sage Strategies, a management consulting firm (www.SageStrategies.org). The firm specializes in strategic planning, board development, financial management, program planning and evaluation and grants management. An old non-profit. Slogging along.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. Listening, Derek Melis, his friend and CFO, was relieved. Vera’s Perspective.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2016

How can you reset the expectations of your manager and coworkers? But when you give all your attention to work, you eventually pay a steep price, according to Stewart Friedman, professor of management at the Wharton School and author of Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and Life. What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 29, 2018

“You’re not in control; you’re putting yourself in the hands of your manager to be judged — and you might be judged not worthy.” “The more senior you get, the more likely it is that your promotion is not the sole decision of your manager,” she notes. ” The past is precedent. .

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 18, 2016

Being on great terms with your manager helps you “stay aligned with the priorities of the organization, understand its constraints, and get access to the resources you need to get things done,” she says. Manzoni suggests talking to manager about topics beyond work. ” But it also matters for psychological reasons.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2018

News of this kind is “hard to hear, and it’s hard to deliver,” says Joseph Weintraub, a professor at Babson College and the coauthor of The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business. Because the topic is so unpleasant, it’s a “conversation that many managers have a tendency to want to avoid.”

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Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2016

When your manager is also your parent, sibling, or another relative, how do you keep things professional? You’ll get invaluable training, improve your business judgment, and build your confidence. Case Study #1: Work elsewhere before climbing the family ladder. Working in the family business can be fraught.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

Check out our selection of events for project/resource managers, business leaders, and industry professionals, which will provide you with valuable insights into recent trends and challenges, networking opportunities, and contribute to your professional development.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

A stark reality recently crept up on Zipcar: It had designed its entire customer experience as a desktop-and-laptop experience, so it didn’t have a way to sign up, service, and help members manage their memberships from their phones. Doing so helps spread the value of innovation into areas responsible for the broader operating model.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

Case studies. Examples: How to Scale a Coaching and Training Firm with Mary Ann Samedi. Give it a shot — create a very simple page on your website with nothing more than a little bit of text to manage expectations (what to ask, when they can expect an answer) and your comment thread. Case Studies.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2017

As a manager, you probably wish you could give all the people on your team more attention. How do you balance being a responsive manager with the need to get your own work done? And how should you manage your frustration? More training? “Does he require more training ? What the Experts Say. More education?”

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2017

” The experience might, for instance, “cause you to lose your train of thought” or “suppress what you originally planned to communicate.” If upper management isn’t on board, it’s going to fall apart. ” Case Study #1: Underscore the importance of your message and follow up in writing.

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