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Narrow Your Niche to Win More Work as a Solopreneur

Successful Independent Consulting

Here is a snippet from his resumé: Professional Summary and Services Jack Tradesmith is a senior consultant with professional experience in organization development and change, leadership and organizational communications, and coaching, as well as internal and external corporate communications, including global marketing initiatives.

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How to Evaluate Your Marketing Leader’s Performance

Prudent Pedal

I hope it eases your angst, provides a rubric to simplify your conversation, gives your marketing leader their do, and sets you on a course for a less anxious and more productive review next year at this time. Ask questions about production efficiency, turnaround times, collateral organization/dissemination, and costs.

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When Is Teamwork Really Necessary?

Harvard Business

The biggest difference between these two situations lies, of course, in the amount of interdependency among group members and the resulting teamwork necessary. So what he mostly needed was hub-and-spoke, one-on-one leadership, through weekly individual meetings, supplemented by periodic group get-togethers. SOURCE Michael Watkins. ©

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

FTI expanded into investigation and research capabilities as well as turnaround, restructuring, bankruptcy and forensic accounting with the moves. Restructuring/Turnaround Services. Key Learning Courses are: New Employee Orientation. Leadership Forums. Honored with Seven M&A Advisor Turnaround Awards.

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Marissa Mayer’s Departure from Yahoo and the Challenge of Drawing Lessons from an N of 1

Harvard Business

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. Experience (still) matters.

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Great CEOs See the Importance of Being Understood

Harvard Business

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. Entrepreneurial founders, of course, have both semantic and rhetorical advantages over their successors in this regard. Insight Center.

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To Grow as a Leader, Seek More Complex Assignments

Harvard Business

Over the course of my career, I’ve spent countless hours talking to and hearing from leaders around the world. Companies like GE, Unilever, and McKinsey do the same, exposing their highest-potentials to new sectors, new companies, new markets, new situations, and new functions, making themselves leadership factories in the process.