How to Keep Envy from Poisoning Your Team’s Culture
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
Create a culture of compassion, not comparison.
LSA Global Adds New Director and Senior Director Assessment Center
LSA Global
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
Receive Assessment Results Certified professional assessors and smart technology score participants’ behaviors against research-backed and client aligned leadership competencies required for success in your unique workplace culture. Individual and group comparisons are available. Learn more about getting aligned.
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A.T. Kearney Interview & Culture
Management Consulted
JANUARY 18, 2015
KEARNEY INTERVIEW AND CULTURE. Their focus is on: structure and governance, processes, technology enablement, resource configuration and capabilities and culture. Culture, culture, culture. Kearney culture and what makes it stand out and embrace change as you’ll be in for a steep learning curve.
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Hay Group Interviews and Culture
Management Consulted
MAY 10, 2015
In 1954, Hay continued its trailblazing ways, started the “Hay Compensation Survey Comparisons”, a tool that allowed companies to remain competitive in terms of the compensation they offered their staff, and continued to see sustained levels of growth. HAY GROUP CULTURE. PwC Consulting Interviews and Culture.
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Comparison, escalation and the golf clap
Seth Godin Blog
JULY 6, 2015
Comparison and escalation are at the heart of what makes our culture work. This is risk-free, enthusiasm-free and easier to do than not. Okay, what does level two sound like? Can you take it up a notch?". And within a minute, she's created a level-ten tsunami of sound.
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Complacency – A Top Leadership Sign of an Underperforming Culture
LSA Global
JUNE 22, 2017
While being self-satisfied doesn’t sound so bad, it is one of the top warning signs of an underperforming culture. To avoid cultural complacency as a leader, ensure that you are always comparing yourself, your team and your company to something better. Comparisons are powerful. we are compared to others.
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Variety and the long tail
Seth Godin Blog
JANUARY 16, 2024
In a We Are All Weird universe, there are two sorts of cultural disappointments. There’s no comparison in the reach of M*A*S*H and the Crown. (In There are so many pockets of culture, it can’t help but feel a bit more lonely from a certain angle. In fact, it’s about 25:1).
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Virtual Interview Tips to Hire Top Talent: Unveiling the Secrets
LSA Global
APRIL 9, 2024
Our organizational culture assessment research shows that a behavioral-based and conversational approach to virtual interviewing works best for both candidates and interviewers. Maintain Consistency Across Interviewers Maintaining consistency in the interview process is essential for fair evaluation and comparison of candidates.
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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures
Harvard Business
AUGUST 29, 2017
Rather than assuming we’ll work in one location, in our native culture, we will need new skills, attitudes, and behaviors that help us work across cultures. What’s more, the subsidiaries operated more or less autonomously, each with separate organizational cultures and norms. Seeking commonality between cultures.
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LSA Global Adds New Frontline Manager Assessment Center
LSA Global
MAY 26, 2023
Receive Assessment Results Certified professional assessors and smart technology score participants’ behaviors against research-backed and client aligned managerial competencies required for success in your unique workplace culture. Individual and group comparisons are available. Learn more about getting aligned.
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36 People Don’t Want to Be Compared with Others in Performance Reviews. They Want to Be Compared with Themselves
Harvard Business
MARCH 22, 2018
We call those temporal comparison evaluations. We call those social comparison evaluations. Our findings demonstrate that employees consider temporal comparison evaluations to be fairer than social comparison evaluations. Another reference point is other employees’ performance during the same period.
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Retail Brands Harness Success Through Consulting Services
Business Consulting Agency
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
International Expansion : For brands looking to expand internationally, consultants offer insights into global markets, regulatory requirements, and cultural considerations. Cost Efficiency : Making cost-effective decisions is vital for profitability.
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Outsiders
Seth Godin Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2017
All it means is that when people begin to measure themselves only in comparison to others ("How did I rank?") But in a culture based on scarcity, it's often easier to award or deduct points and to keep a scoreboard instead. That doesn't mean that you're required to create insiders and winners.
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3 Ways Senior Leaders Create a Toxic Culture
Harvard Business
MAY 1, 2018
division was known for underperforming against revenue plans in comparison to its central and western division counterparts. The implications for an organization whose leadership team is poorly focused are serious: Wasted resources, wasted effort, and widespread confusion become the norm.
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Embracing Selfless Love in the Workplace
Organizational Talent Consulting
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
There is no serious debate that well-designed organizations with clear organizational strategies influence desired behaviors, culture, and performance. Developing and testing a measure for the ethical culture of organizations: The corporate ethical virtues model. Stop and think about the implications of that statement for a moment.
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52 Compared to what?
Seth Godin Blog
APRIL 17, 2017
Thanks to marketing, the media and our culture, we spend a lot of our time comparing before we decide whether or not we're happy. Comparison leads to frustration which sometimes leads to innovation. If a comparison isn't helping you get to where you're going, it's okay to ignore it. it's better than the alternatives.
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A Riff on the Padres/MLB/RSN and the Business of Sports…
Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog
JUNE 6, 2023
And, if I could come up with an apples to apple comparison, I’d guess we would see that the Premier League is also more popular than MLB. Ratings, ticket sales, attendance, and cultural impact have been declining for a decade or more. Four, know that there isn’t a quick fix for MLB. There are many more to take.
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Saving RadioShack
Tom Spencer
SEPTEMBER 14, 2014
By comparison, rivals Amazon and Wal-Mart have continuously adapted and maintain a significant competitive advantage in pricing these products due to scale. I believe the most applicable actions for Radio Shack involve a thorough examination of current product offerings as well as a transition in company culture.
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Interviews with Asian Leaders – what did we find?
Ben de Haldevang
MARCH 21, 2017
My friend Ben de Haldevang and I spent a fair bit of time over the spring and summer of 2016 talking to a number of Asian senior executives, across several sectors, about their views on how Asian business practices, decisionmaking, and organizations worked in comparison to those in the west.
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The pleasure/happiness gap
Seth Godin Blog
OCTOBER 1, 2017
Both are cultural constructs. Both respond not only to direct, physical inputs (chemicals, illness) but more and more, to cultural ones, to the noise of comparisons and narratives. Instead, they are things that are possible to get confused about in the short run, but in the long run, they couldn't be more different.
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Consulting or Banking
Tom Spencer
MAY 8, 2016
This post provides you with a high level comparison of management consulting and investment banking. Work culture: Consulting firms typically have a professional and collegial atmosphere where an intense client focus is combined with networking and professional development opportunities. Nature of the job.
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Steps to Redesign Your Customer Experience
LSA Global
APRIL 4, 2022
Done right, mapping the current customer experience assesses your current organizational culture and allows for a comparison between the experiences people have and the underlying operational processes and systems that substantiate those experiences.
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The Pitfalls of Absentee Ownership
Martinka Consulting
JULY 24, 2019
The above is part of a larger issue and that’s the overall culture. It is a state of comparison.” Given the owners are thinking of selling the business one would think they would spiff it up to make a good first impression. The saying, when the cat’s away the mice will play, is very true. As the saying goes, it’s always something.
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Focus Client Communications on Value, Not Rate
Women in Consulting
APRIL 23, 2018
My formal education focused on critical thinking and the social sciences — hello, Bachelors in Anthropology and Masters in Cultural Studies! But these formulas (and their many peers) pale in comparison to the real-life experience of asking clients for feedback about how my work had improved their businesses.
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Why Your Employees Aren't Committed to Your Company Strategy
Organizational Talent Consulting
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Ideas are tagged and compared through comparison sorts. Stakeholders are invited to prioritize the ideas submitted using pre-identified criteria such as culture alignment, cost, quality, and timeliness. Refinement. This phase also includes a checkpoint for leaders to ask for more information and accept, revise, or reject ideas.
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Quote Your Consulting Billing Rate with Confidence
Successful Independent Consulting
SEPTEMBER 16, 2017
Remember, even your higher rate will be cheaper in comparison.) If you have worked with that company before, you are worth a lot more to them than someone who is unfamiliar with the players, culture, structure, and politics. Ask if the budget has already been approved. What’s been done in this area so far?
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2016 Top 10 U.S. MBA programs for Management Consulting
Management Consulted
APRIL 20, 2016
In 2015, 168 students of the 748-person class went in to consulting, despite the strong interest in investment banking at Columbia as well its culture of encouraging entrepreneurship. Still, while Stanford may not emphasize teamwork like other top B-schools, it is an important part of the culture.
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Virtual Coaching is Inevitable but is it Effective?
Organizational Talent Consulting
JUNE 26, 2023
Virtual Coaching Benefit #2: Availability Virtual technology platforms enable the coach to be brought into just-in-time and rapid-response situations or situations like cross-cultural coaching goals. A comparison of face-to-face and distance coaching practices: Coaches’ perceptions of the role of working alliance in problem resolution.
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How to Bring Out Your Best in the New Year
Organizational Talent Consulting
JANUARY 8, 2024
These assessments typically gather feedback from their leader, peers, and direct reports allowing comparisons between themselves and others. Using a leadership 360 assessment is one proven tool to improve critical reflection. This is one leadership assessment you need to be using.
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Transitioning from Management Consulting to Corporate Strategy/M&A – the Decision Making Process
Tom Spencer
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
To inform your comparison of opportunities, it’s helpful to consider a range of factors. Work environment & culture. There’s a tendency to think about culture as soft, intangible, and therefore not important. In fact, I would personally place culture as one of my top criteria. Culture = your day-to-day experience.
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5 Signs Your Organization Might Be Headed for an Ethics Scandal
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 18, 2017
Their answers fell into a clear pattern, identifying five traits of organizational culture that correlate with ethical scandals: Urgency and fear : Following corruption scandals, leaders tend to describe events in terms of pressure, necessity, and what the company needed to do to ”survive.”
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How to Use Reflection to Bring Out Your Best in the New Year
Organizational Talent Consulting
DECEMBER 26, 2022
These assessments typically gather feedback from their leader, peers, and direct reports allowing comparisons between themselves and others. Using a leadership 360 assessment is one proven tool to improve critical reflection. This is one leadership assessment you need to be using.
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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story
Management Consulted
AUGUST 1, 2013
In comparison to many strategy consulting firms, Oliver Wyman consultants tend to specialize earlier in their career. This fits hand in hand with their culture of treating new hires as potential Partners, offering them opportunities early on to engage in important projects. OLIVER WYMAN CULTURE. Public Policy.
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When Corporate Philanthropy Makes the Recipient Look Bad
Harvard Business
AUGUST 24, 2016
And yet for cultural organizations such as the Royal Opera and for most NGOs or foundations, having access to and receiving corporate financial support is often a blessing. At the same time, as the BP example makes clear, for some of these cultural organizations, corporate benefaction comes with a cost.
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Want a Successful Agile Project? Start with Why Before How
Johanna Rothman
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Which is how these teams get to insufficient numbers of Scrum Masters, no product owners, and team comparison based on velocity. (See Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization for this and related problems and my recommendations.). That's not even cargo cult Scrum—that's not Scrum at all. What can you do?
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When One Person’s High Performance Creates Resentment in Your Team
Harvard Business
APRIL 21, 2017
That’s partly because high performance is relative and based on social comparison. In communities with frequent interaction, opportunities for such comparison increase. Managers should pay particular attention to these issues in workplace cultures that emphasize harmony and cooperation.
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How U.S. Health Care Got Safer by Focusing on the Patient Experience
Harvard Business
MAY 31, 2017
For every comparison, the clinical quality performance was better in the hospitals with the better patient experience performance. I could summarize many, many comparisons in these types of performance data, but readers probably already have the idea. There is good news for chief financial officers, too, in these analyses.
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How to Build Trust with Colleagues You Rarely See
Harvard Business
JANUARY 29, 2018
In addition, there are two types of knowledge — direct knowledge and reflected knowledge — employees must possess to make up for inevitable cultural and language differences that can hinder trust. It’s easy to develop cultural stereotypes about your colleagues who originate in a different culture. Swift Trust.
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28 The New Philanthropy: The Push For A Renewable Capital Innovation Fund
Tom Spencer
JULY 5, 2015
So where are the incentives to start new ventures in Australia’s vibrant University culture? With the level of imagination, commercial creativity and desire to innovate in Australia there are all the ingredients for a thriving startup culture and venture capital industry. Why does this matter? billion in tax revenues per year.
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60 Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis
MishTalk
AUGUST 3, 2013
World’s lightest and thinnest circuits pave the way for "imperceptible electronics"; Man vs. Machine Comparison. For comparison purposes, a Facebook video shows " Humans are Awesome ". World’s lightest and thinnest circuits pave the way for "imperceptible electronics"; Man vs. Machine Comparison. Zero Hedge.
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71 Can 10 Minutes of Meditation Make You More Creative?
Harvard Business
AUGUST 29, 2017
Leading a Brainstorming Session with a Cross-Cultural Team. Similar to the exercise with the students, these executives meditated for 12 minutes and then generated ideas individually on how to create a more inclusive culture in an organization. You and Your Team Series. Thinking Creatively. Emma Seppala. David Livermore.
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Why Being a Middle Manager Is So Exhausting
Harvard Business
MARCH 22, 2017
In a forthcoming paper in the Academy of Management Review , we present a theory of power that moves beyond a static comparison of high and low power actors to consider the full spectrum of organizational power dynamics. It may be especially challenging to negotiate vertical role transitions in hierarchical organizational cultures.
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52 Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Trends in Full and Part.
MishTalk
JULY 8, 2013
By this comparison only 2012 looks anything close to a normal recovery year. Wallace charts show non-adjusted numbers vs. the same month in prior years, and that is a valid statistical comparison. Lets also look at seasonally adjusted numbers vs. the prior month, also a valid comparison. Prior Year. Year Part-Time Employment.
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Leaders, Stop Avoiding Hard Decisions
Harvard Business
APRIL 13, 2018
As an executive, how you make hard calls shapes your organization’s decision-making culture over time. Whatever temporary pain you might incur from making a tough call should pale in comparison to the precedent you set that it’s important to put the organization’s success first.
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