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Change Readiness?—?Essential but Oft-Omitted

Harmonious Workplaces

During the month of October, I had the pleasure of learning Organizational Development (OD) and Change Leadership from The Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. I found this experience not only enlightening and a delight but also pragmatic and extremely helpful in the way I think about organizational change.

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How to Figure Out Your Consulting Bill Rate

Successful Independent Consulting

Note, while this is true in more established areas like supply-chain expertise, the reverse may be true when it comes to new areas like social media strategy or bitcoin mining. ;-) Years of experience in consulting — Consultants just starting out are unproven in the market and can’t charge as much. Typical rates vary by industry too.

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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. Were you involved with the strategy, planning, implementation, or all of the above?

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Oliver Wyman Careers

CaseInterview.com

The General Management Consulting practice most resembles that of a traditional strategy consulting experience. Unlike the major strategy consulting firms, however, Oliver Wyman consultants tend to specialize into a given practice area earlier in their career. Customer relationship management. Leadership Development.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

An investor-owned hospital executive whose company had acquired major nonprofit health care enterprises compared the proliferation of contracts to the growth of barnacles on the bottom of a freighter. Eliminating layers of management. In some larger nonprofit hospitals, there may be six. cancel or rebid them).

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Making a Big Pivot — While Staying True to Your Original Mission

Harvard Business

How your organization can find new ways to fulfill its core purpose.

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Samsung, Shame, and Corporate Atonement

Harvard Business

Lee is accused of donating $36 million to nonprofit foundations operated by a friend of the former president in return for political favors. Following the arrest of Lee Jae-yong, Samsung decided to disband its Future Strategy Office , considered the family’s most loyal body — and that’s a good start.