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How Etsy Found Its Purpose and Crafted a Turnaround

Harvard Business

CEO Josh Silverman’s purpose-driven turnaround at Etsy made the company profitable and improved its social and environmental impact.

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The Journey from Underdog Athlete to Turnaround CEO w/Mike MacDonald Ep#155

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

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Your Consulting Niche vs Jack-of-All-Trades Myth

Successful Independent Consulting

My company represents self-employed professionals across the country, and over the last seven years I have interviewed, coached, or worked with more than 200 independent management consultants. I know a highly talented professional with over 20 years of experience with several Fortune 500 companies. The exact opposite is true.

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Small Steps or Big Steps: What’s the Right Way to Begin Improvement?

Markovitz Consulting

He describes his “shock and awe” approach (my terminology) in his excellent book The Lean Turnaround , where he takes the company through several week-long kaizen events. To be sure, there is some up front training, but the emphasis is on starting the lean journey with kaizen events.

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Leaders Who Get Change Right Know How to Listen

Harvard Business

Take Anne Mulcahy, who stepped into the CEO role at Xerox in 2001, during a particularly tough time in the company’s history. Yet she chose to spend her first three months talking with employees, understanding their concerns, and testing their reactions to potential solutions to the company’s problems. Hope rekindled.

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How Agile Teams Can Help Turnarounds Succeed

Harvard Business

Agile — the management approach that relies on small, entrepreneurial, close-to-the-customer teams — has a reputation that reflects its rapid adoption in software development. It is most definitely not for big, old-line companies that are facing an existential crisis and require a full-scale turnaround.

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List of strategy consulting firms in Hong Kong

Tom Spencer

Bain & Company. Booz & Company. McKinsey & Company. Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Bain & Company. Bain & Company (Hong Kong). Founded in 1973 when Bill Bain and others left BCG to form Bain & Company.