Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2017

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. Translation: turnaround expert.

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Consulting Turnaround Exercises Technology Implementation 150

Management Consulted

JANUARY 25, 2016

AlixPartners is an international business advisory firm based in Southfield, MI known for its work in corporate turnarounds, bankruptcy assignments and restructuring. Generally regarded as turnaround market leaders, AlixPartners is doing a killer job at taking up more room in the consulting space by strategically hiring a plethora of gurus.

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Markovitz Consulting

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Do I even need to tell you that the company is struggling with both productivity and quality? I’ve been working with this company to improve performance on the shop floor, but progress has been incremental. Or small issues that don’t necessarily make it to the radar screen of leadership even if they’re important to the employees.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2017

Making these shifts requires increased attention to organizational governance around three domains: talent, capability , and leadership. To focus that attention and transform the companies in their portfolios, PE firms are establishing a new role that we call a leadership capital partner (LCP).

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

“It’s natural for companies to look for employees who have a track record,” he says. “You’re choosing to come back, which means the company wants you back,” she says. “No one wants to hear about how bad the company was when you left,” Dillon says. Network around the company.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

It was hard to be more of an insider at The Walt Disney Company than COO Thomas Staggs. The 26-year company veteran had been widely seen as the heir apparent to CEO Bob Iger — that is, until Staggs abruptly stepped down this month. “We’ve spent a lot of time with companies that are worried,” Nielson says.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 1, 2018

This book tells the story of a successful sales executive who, after leading an analytics-driven turnaround (in Data Driven, this book’s predecessor), faces a new turnaround challenge as chief human resources officer. Boost HR and company productivity and performance with metrics that matter. Realistic and Actionable.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

A staggering 88% of companies listed in the 1955 Fortune 500 are nowhere to be found in the same list today. If we want our companies to last, we must excel at the “ Three Box Solution.” If we want our companies to last, we must excel at the “ Three Box Solution.” Now it’s less than 15 years.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2018

Consider the example of Nicolas, a regional sales vice president at a medical devices company. Catherine, a senior marketing director leading a cross-functional product development team at the same company, provides a contrasting case study. The result: wasted time and unnecessary frustration. SOURCE Michael Watkins. ©

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Peter Stark

JANUARY 30, 2018

So focused on his and his own team’s results that he was willing to throw others in the company under the bus. Meet with the leader to discuss how they perceive their leadership and what they believe others would say about their leadership, communication, and performance management style. Unappreciative of other’s contributions.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

The tiny company brought major changes to the presentation of technical courtroom evidence using computer models built with a simple yet powerful goal in mind – to help jury members understand the technical merits in law cases. 1999: FTI Consulting began trading as a public company on the NYSE. companies by Fortune Magazine.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When a private equity firm adds a new company to its portfolio, analysts rigorously size up its financial, operational, and competitive condition. Yet even with all that knowledge and effort, many private equity companies still don’t do a good job when it comes to deciding whether to keep the CEO in place or select a new CEO.

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Peter Stark

OCTOBER 13, 2019

In the nine months I endured this toxic environment, three of my good team members quit the company. This is not a toxic environment, but an example of great leadership and doing the right thing. Most often, they’re going to need additional help in developing the strategies and actions to make a positive turnaround.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

My experience with even the most successful global companies is that they’re between average and poor at developing future talent. Leadership & Developing People Book. Both of those leaders are now CEOs — one of a $10 billion retail chain and another of a specialty eyewear company. franckreporter/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

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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ConsultX

AUGUST 10, 2021

A one-stop turnaround plan, Conquer the Chaos lays out a complete path to make your business run smoothly and provide you with the freedom you desire. Focus - Al Ries Summary: If your company has lost the focus it once had, here are clear solutions for moving your organization back to its key service and discarding everything else.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 26, 2019

EXAMPLE #1: The date was November 22, 2000 for XYZ company -- one of the leading start companies in the eCommerce software services market. The company was on pace to grow sales by 600% for the year. In addition, we had an IPO scheduled for Q1, and if the company failed to deliver, our IPO would be in jeopardy.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2017

With that luxury in our hands now, here are some critical leadership lessons we can draw from Mayer’s tenure as CEO of Yahoo. Too often when we evaluate leadership performance, we fail to distinguish between the leader’s personal success and the success of their companies.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

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. IMS Health.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2016

From 1996 to 2015, the number of publicly traded companies in the United States alone dropped nearly 50%. A major catalyst for this shift has been private equity firms, which take companies private and incorporate them into their own portfolios. Three Phases in the Evolution of Private Equity Investment.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 16, 2016

No one who listens to Alan Mulally describe Ford’s remarkable turnaround escapes his rendition of One Ford , One Team , and Working Together. Leadership is changing — fast. At one well-regarded web services firm, the new CEO wanted her company to become more customer-focused – indeed “customer-obsessed.”

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

Sales reps are most effective when they have the right amount of support staff, but exactly how much support staff does a company need, and how should it be structured? And these top performers have a 30% higher level of sales support than the rest of the companies. Sales efficiency can benefits from high levels of support in two ways.

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Harvard Business

JULY 9, 2018

In fact, we have seen many companies waste considerable sums by assigning coaches to managers who just aren’t ready to be coached, no matter how effective the coaches may be. One CEO we worked with was known for his smart turnarounds of a large media company. manufacturing company.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

. “I wanted to highlight some of the progress we have made in mobile, which is another big strategic area for us,” he told listeners , noting that Google Maps was becoming popular for Blackberry users and later adding that it was critical that the company make sure all its content worked on phones.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Bain & Company. Booz & Company. Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. A&M specialises in turnaround and interim management, performance management and business advisory services. APT provides software and consulting services for consumer-focused companies.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

” But being isolated at the top can compromise your decision making and leadership effectiveness, both of which require having as much firsthand information about a situation as possible. Two years later, the board dismissed the CEO because his plan for the company wasn’t working.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

You accept your first job as a manager in a fast growth tech company, thinking: “How much different could this be from my former company—a financial services firm? Half of your colleagues worked above, below or alongside each other in previous companies. Management is management, right?”

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Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2016

He had spent his entire 14-year career at the company, had worked hard, and had rapidly climbed the ranks in sales and marketing. The culmination was his promotion to business unit leader for Plastic Resins, one of the company’s best-performing units. He inherited a strong team with a proven track record.

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2018

Brad was leading a difficult turnaround of his company and had decided to fire his head of sales, who was a nice guy but wasn’t performing. ” Which puts his challenge in perspective: His connection to his head of sales was at war with his commitment to the success of his team and company. Pat LaCroix/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

of Fortune 500 companies are run by female CEOs, and while there is incremental progress — there are 32 female CEOs this year, the highest percentage ever, compared with only 21 last year — the rate of change can feel excruciatingly slow. Harry Haysom/Getty Images. Women could be ready for the CEO role sooner.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2016

” This reflects an endemic lack of self-awareness in leadership, and the costs are significant. One newly appointed CEO I worked with was leading a massive overhaul of his company while he personally struggled deeply with indecisiveness. We later discovered that her impatience was symptomatic of deeper issues.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2016

This was validated in my most recent research into mindfulness and leadership, where it emerged as the number one skill. What Leadership Looks Like in Different Cultures. This is true in company cultures too, by the way, not just national or regional ones.). You and Your Team Series. Managing Across Cultures.

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Confessions of a Consultant

APRIL 30, 2017

While it’s not an exact science, see what you make of the following story… Doug Meyer: In North America, a pharmaceutical company manufactured and marketed Consumer Health Products. It offered a ‘turnaround’ challenge. In his own words: “ Where’s the fun in taking over a successful company.

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2016

This was the headquarters of Campbell Soup Company when one of us, Doug Conant, took the reins as CEO in 2001. ” These companies beat “the average annualized returns of the S&P 500 by a factor of three.” Weeds and overgrowth flanking the grim exterior. Was this a prison? How to Develop the Trust-Building Skill.

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

Smart companies understand that workspaces are a business tool. For example, we’ve seen an explosion of open office layouts, sn part because openness, transparency, and collaboration are some of the attributes companies strive for today. At the same time, the company knew they had some challenges.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

And on the rare occasions when you do land an interview, you stumble over questions about what you’d bring to the hiring company and why you’re the perfect fit. But the bullet becomes much more impressive because he placed it in the larger context of what his company’s overall challenges were.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2017

One CFO I know managed finance for a spin-off firm when it went public and then returned to the parent company in a corporate position. Getting on the C-suite shortlist requires having a demonstrable impact on the entire company. Most companies have a distinct culture.

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