Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

Sadly, evidence suggests that 50% to 85% of mergers fail to deliver on shareholder returns despite leadership's best intentions. The leadership challenge is to figure out the best way to manage the formation of a blended new shared culture. Influence the leaders’ leadership style.

Culture 52

Culture Resources Tools Leadership 52

Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

For organizations seeking to become more adaptive and innovative, culture change is often the most challenging part of the transformation. Innovation demands new behaviors from leaders and employees that are often antithetical to corporate cultures, which are historically focused on operational excellence and efficiency.

Culture 53

Culture Company Enterprise Leadership 53

Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2017

Change management can be a test for any organization. Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. Change management certainly tested us. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.)

Management 33

Management Change Management Culture Leadership 33

Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. And yet black women’s advancement into leadership roles has remained stagnant , even as the number of them in professional and managerial roles has increased. What were the critical events, and what lessons did they learn? How People Get Ahead.

Management 39

Management Leadership Culture Development 39

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.

Industry 52

Industry Automotive Pharmaceuticals Management 52

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

A total of 8 Managing Directors over various regions and issue areas help him lead the widely respected firm. The practice areas at Towers Watson reflect the operational nature of consulting projects at the firm: Communication and Change Management. Corporate Risk Management and Risk Financing. Practice Areas.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Developing leaders to drive financial performance and operational excellence has always been important. Yet these same executives questioned whether their current leadership is up to the challenge: Only 17 percent of those surveyed were confident their organizations have the right leadership to deliver on their strategic business plans.

Development 28

Development Survey How To Leadership 28

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

To infuse change agility into your culture, mid- and front-line leaders — who are closest to the markets, customers, and daily operations — need to be encouraged and incented to see opportunities in what they do every day. They are shifts that need to be made at all levels of leadership. Advertise successes.

Agile 52

Agile Efficiency Culture Trends 52

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Using a metaphor that he called “Mount Sustainability,” Anderson visualized his strategy by drawing a person climbing a mountain with multiple trails on its face, each representing discrete initiatives designed to tackle all the technical, operational, and cultural challenges that Interface’s movement faced.

Turnaround 28

Turnaround How To Survey Enterprise 28

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

Today AWS accounts for just 10% of Amazon’s $150 billion in revenue, but generates close to $1 billion in quarterly operating profit. As any manager knows, a generic-sounding list of values won’t move the culture needle unless leadership brings it to life.

Methodologies 49

Methodologies Culture Metrics Company 49

Harvard Business

AUGUST 19, 2016

These events have left many in despair, wondering why the violence keeps happening and whether anyone knows what to do about it. To understand how this works, it’s important to understand how the legal rules operate. Police officers are not judged with 20-20 hindsight.

Culture 28

Culture System Training Training 28

Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

They came up with incredible solutions in change management and supporting tools for the human resources side of marketing and sales. Business Operations. The career levels in each of these are: Associate Consultant/ Associate Engineer-> Consultant/Software Engineer-> Manager-> Associate Principal-> Principal.

Case Interview 100

Case Interview Interviews Sales Pharmaceuticals 100

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

To effect actual change, they need to understand how biases — their own, and their employees’ — can shape behaviors and decisions, and prevent them from achieving what they set out to achieve. CEOs need to be especially aware of how the subtle forces of bias can operate in our subconscious and influence our choices.

Leadership 28

Leadership Operations Groups Company 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2017

health system, change management is an essential skill for public and private leaders alike. For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system?

System 29

System Change Management Healthcare Government 29

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

We found the Architects sustainably transformed a school by challenging how it operated, engaging its community, and improving its teaching. And we interviewed the leaders and their teams to understand the challenges they faced, when they occurred, and how they overcame them. They took nine key steps over three years, in a particular order.

Research 28

Research Study Education Recruiting 28

Confessions of a Consultant

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Through a range of ‘shake the tree’ events, they systematically produce crop after crop of new ideas. Many people will already be familiar with the system in operation at 3M where people are allowed to devote 15% of their time and budget to any project that they wish. A similar technique can be used to good effect in managing.

Energy 40

Energy System Advertising Management 40