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Agile Strategy Enables Significant Growth

Brimstone Consulting

The CEO of a family-owned construction company recognized that an outside, objective perspective would be valuable to the future and growth of the company. The STAP is Brimstone’s proven methodology to help organizations gain – and sustain – the coordination, collaboration, and clarity that deliver results. CASE STUDY.

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How to Design an Effective Sales Kickoff

LSA Global

Do you need to teach new sales skills , sales methodologies, sales processes , or sales systems? Do you have the right talent to execute your sales plan? Talent gaps could be caused by anything from their attitude, their activity level, their aptitude, or their fit. Do you need to shift your sales culture ? You get the point.

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The Biggest Obstacles to Innovation in Large Companies

Harvard Business

To be constructive, we also asked about the things that foster innovation.) But creating new places where people can gather to work on projects — subcultures within the larger culture — can be constructive. Inability to act on signals crucial to the future of the business (42% of respondents.).

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You Don’t Need an “India Strategy” — You Need a Strategy for Each State in India

Harvard Business

The country’s ranking in dealing with construction permits (181) and enforcing contracts (164) is particularly bad. Within the country, there are large — and often underestimated — regional differences in language, culture, talent, infrastructure, and wealth, all of which lead to wide variations in business landscapes.

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business

They have to decide where to adopt agile principles and mindsets, where to use agile problem-solving methodologies to dynamically address strategic and organizational challenges, and where to more formally deploy the full agile model, including self-managed teams. a 525-employee software company, began applying agile methodologies in 2005.

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Diversity Doesn’t Stick Without Inclusion

Harvard Business

Without inclusion, however, the crucial connections that attract diverse talent, encourage their participation, foster innovation, and lead to business growth won’t happen. ” Conventional measures would never flag this talented man for a flight risk; it’s up to the narrative to tell the tale.

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Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders

Harvard Business

How talent management is changing. In its place, switch to constructing self-directed experiences for participants that replicate the precise contexts they need to lead in. Sponsored by Korn Ferry. In practice, this mean setting up what I call “living laboratory” leadership development.