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4 Autopsies of Big Change Management Failures

LSA Global

To perform and thrive, you have to be able to adapt to an ever changing environment. If you resist and defy change, your company is not long for this world. Here are a few examples from decades of change management consulting projects of now-defunct organizations that, in order to avoid disaster did not.

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All Management Is Change Management

Harvard Business

Change management is having its moment. But many of these indicate that change management is some occult subspecialty of management, something that’s distinct from “managing” itself. This is curious given that, when you think about it, all management is the management of change.

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Changing Business Practices to Change Culture

LSA Global

Culture is actually changed when leaders not only communicate the importance of culture and behave in a way that is aligned with that culture but when they manage the policies, processes, and organizational structures that support the culture they want to best execute their business and people strategies.

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Selling Your Competitive Advantages in Consulting

Tom Spencer

Any professional sales pitch should be based on reality. For example, you may have a competitive advantage in government change management, but since you are not in the government consulting practice, it is not relevant. The sincere truth. This could be professionally disastrous. Going beyond the cookie cutter.

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What is consulting?

Tom Spencer

Strategy Consultants: Within management consulting, Strategy Consultants operate at the highest level of the consultancy market, focusing on strategic topics like corporate and organizational strategy, economic policy, government policy and functional strategy. Sales, Marketing, Production) and secondary functions (e.g.

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Why you need a COO or operations manager

Asamby Consulting

Check out our privacy policy. You have to transition into the new organizational structure: This is not only onboarding, but rather a change management process. Today you'll find a variety of "functional operations managers". Examples are sales operations or revenue ops. You can unsubscribe at any time.

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The Management Ideas That Mattered Most in 2016

Harvard Business

Diversity Policies Don’t Help Women or Minorities, and They Make White Men Feel Threatened. The Organizational Reasons Police Departments Don’t Change. Managing Police Departments Post-Ferguson. Managing people: Let Your Workers Rebel. Sales & Marketing: The Elements of Value.