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

Successful Independent Consulting

Here are some excerpts from their résumés and profiles: PROFESSIONAL SUMMARIES Organizational change expert with 16 years of experience in large-scale technology implementations for the Fortune 500. Translation: change management for IT projects. Translation: turnaround expert. What problems do you solve?

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Leaders Who Get Change Right Know How to Listen

Harvard Business

What she learned informed her strategy for the turnaround, which she then communicated through a series of town halls, roundtables, and memos. In fact, she logged nearly 200,000 miles that first year as she traveled to each site to share the strategy and reignite enthusiasm about the future of Xerox. Hope rekindled.

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How Volvo Reinvented Itself Through Hiring

Harvard Business

But when some CEOs in this position look at the people they employ, they discover a problem: a swath of their existing team doesn’t have the necessary skills or metabolism for change to meet the new challenges. Developing what we call an “M&A strategy for talent” is one way to overcome this.

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