Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

While I was researching my new book, How to Get a Meeting with Anyone , I asked the top 100 sales thought leaders in the world, “When you absolutely must reach someone who is very important but nearly impossible to reach, how do you do it? The Seven Imperatives to Keeping Meetings on Track. Secure the meeting.

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Kates Kesler

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Recently, The Wall Street Journal reported on how Procter & Gamble’s CEO is under scrutiny by investors and the board for a stalling turnaround effort. P&G’s Stumbles Put CEO On Hot Seat for Turnaround. At this meeting, seven to 10 executives met to discuss the state of the company and make decisions.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 2, 2015

A large American beverage company acquired a fruit juice company for $350 million five years ago with the goal to increase revenues tenfold. A large Korean electronics company is thinking about entering the market for tablet computers. A South Korean company is acquiring a U.S. What should the company do?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2018

Consider the example of Nicolas, a regional sales vice president at a medical devices company. Although his one-on-one meetings with these reports, which involved progress reviews, motivation, and coaching, were highly productive, his monthly team meetings weren’t. In Nicolas’s case, it was the former.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At any given moment, about 5%–7% of companies either are in free fall or are about to be. And here’s a sobering fact: Only about 10%–15% of those companies will ever pull out of it. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

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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

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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Martinka Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2017

John Martinka, as one of Seattle’s most successful, knowledgeable, & experienced buyer’s brokers, and I, as the President of IBA, the Pacific Northwest’s oldest business brokerage firm, have collaboratively completed a significant number of transactions involving the purchase & sale of privately held companies, including one already in 2017.

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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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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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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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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 26, 2019

Did you just show up at the sales meeting? 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. The servers we wanted had a two-week turnaround time.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

For all their shiny, architect-designed headquarters buildings with atrium acreage, companies are often slaves to the past. When Tata took over the ailing Jaguar Land Rover company from Ford, it had a simple message for the company’s workers: forget about quarterly results, make great cars. The first is the past.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 22, 2018

She was on her way home from two days in Arkansas visiting her company’s largest facility. It was a division of FB Holdings, a manufacturing company based in Aurora, Illinois, and it had the unfortunate distinction of being the group’s poorest performing unit for nearly a decade. ” Two Days Earlier.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

That’s demoralizing for employees, and a waste for companies, which badly need the full energy and commitment of all their workers. By attacking the root causes of organizational drag, companies can eliminate unnecessary work, reenergize the workforce and, at the same time, put the business on a better course. Related Video.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Managers rarely yell, coworkers try to help each other out whenever possible, and companies are organized to provide consultants support with training, expertise, etc. In addition, you’ll have limited exposure across the company to other groups, departments, etc – less ability to network across the company.

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ConsultX

AUGUST 10, 2021

You can meet the challenges, reclaim your life, and grow your business at the same time. 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. But take heart! Conquer the Chaos shows you how. Get started today! YouTube Video Summary: 4.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2017

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). Most of the LCPs we studied began with the task of ensuring the PE firm itself had the right talent, culture, and leadership, and then moved on to do the same for portfolio companies.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2018

Changing company strategies is another, including new strategic product/market priorities and shifts to e-commerce. Companies eliminate too many jobs when they let cost savings, not revenues, dictate how many salespeople to cut. But too often, companies cut a few sales jobs and hope for a market turnaround that never happens.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

He told me that he eventually learned to stray from his tour guides so that he could meet people who hadn’t been prepped for his visit, to see what was really happening. To help make his case, he assembled a brain trust of people with different opinions to help him develop positions on the challenges facing the company.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Many legacy companies would like to transform themselves into agile, talent-first organizations. 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.

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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. ” There are a variety of ways you can use this exercise beyond one meeting.

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Perhaps no single factor has a greater impact on a company’s future — for better or worse — than the selection of a new CEO. Companies should develop a dual focus that includes both preparing capable near-and mid-term leaders and identifying those deeper down in the organization who possess future leadership potential.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 29, 2015

I was just so aware of how privileged I was to be working at McKinsey and when you work there, you want to live up to the prestige of the company, you know? It’s rapid deadlines and very quick turnarounds. We’d have a meeting tomorrow, which meant we had to get all this stuff on pages tonight. That was typical.

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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. Suddenly, all was clear.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2016

Perhaps nervous about the meeting in the morning, you find yourself lying on the bed flicking through the TV channels for something to watch to keep you awake to offset the growing jet-lag. “We started meeting in each other’s homes every few months. How many nights have you spent in a hotel in a city many miles from home?

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The CEOs in our study were adept at telling their company’s story. Essential to the story is the company’s purpose. Fred Lynch, CEO of Masonite, a 92-year-old company that manufactures interior doors and entry door systems, created a long-term value creation thesis that he called the Masonite “blueprint.”

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2016

To meet these challenges, we see three priorities for developing the next generation of leaders in the “work-disrupted” age: Mastery of Digital. Voser was impatient for a new experience which attracted him to ABB and there he learned a whole new level of turnaround leadership.

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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. What were their biggest challenges, and how did you help meet them? But for the most part, recruiters aren’t calling. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround. With 365,780 employees, VA has a higher headcount than any Fortune 10 company apart from Wal-Mart, and at $152.7

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