LSA Global

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a Leading Others Action Learning Program for Managers at a growing healthcare company.

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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. Numerous studies identify failure as often tied to misalignment between the organization and its operational environment. In-group favoritism results in actions that favor one group.

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Asamby Consulting

JULY 25, 2022

Leadership has developed a strategy, sometimes over months, and knows it in and out. This sounds obvious, yet is critical to understand: Just because you develop an ambitious strategy doesn't mean you change the way your organization operates. How do people collaborate, what's our culture like? Are my processes documented?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The two companies may have seen value in capitalizing on each other’s strengths, but they failed to investigate their cultural compatibility beforehand. When tight and loose cultures merge, there is a good chance that they will clash. Tight company cultures value consistency and routine. Loose cultures are much more fluid.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 23, 2015

Today we highlight tremendous business analyst and post-consulting leadership jobs at Tesla Motors. History & Culture. The company now employs more than 6,000 people worldwide, and still operates in 3 countries. Starbucks Jobs and Culture. ” Enjoy! Check out some of the other firms that we have profiled below.

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

long term vs short term investments, M&A activity, enterprise vs operating unit accountability). While Netflix relies heavily on leadership behavioral expectations, the automotive company relies on documented protocols owned and overseen by a person or committee. 1 Networked, Scaled, and Agile.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

One thing I have learned over my almost 30-plus years of consulting – while there are executive unicorns who will share your idealistic visions of a balanced approach to leadership, like Mark Johnson (in episode 42) or former Disney COO Jim MacPhee (in episode 40), the majority won't. All three create the culture and work environment.

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Asamby Consulting

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Examples include Standard operating procedures Processes documentation and policies Standing meetings around defined topics Predefined decision-making logic Forms and workflows Canned responses in customer support Many more. Also, this is never the same for any two companies, but is very much an expression of the company culture.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 10, 2023

Operations - improving customer service and identifying production errors and defects. Legal - drafting legal documents and answering questions from large amounts of legal documentation. Plan a team meeting with company leadership to discuss: What is AI? Being guarded promotes distrust.

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Effective Managers

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

When managing remote staff, it is important to engage the team and maintain a sense of wellbeing by creating an accountability culture. We need to learn new strategies for ensuring transparency and building trust through remote communication, to which an accountability culture is key. Communication is Vital. Lead With Accountability.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 2, 2022

No longer can leaders coast along the same old paths; you need to reimagine the journey forward and invest in the leadership capabilities required to create more innovative, agile , and resilient teams and organizations. The Bottom Line Strategic plans should be living and evolving documents.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2017

In phase 3, successful portfolio transformations require financial discipline that is not an event, but a pattern; strategic clarity that is not a direction, but a commitment; operational excellence that is not a tool, but a mindset. Evaluating leadership capital has always been a critical component of due diligence for deal teams.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The benefits of effective performance management are well documented beyond the obvious benefit of increasing revenue. The following are a few of the more common and dangerous symptoms of leaders and a company culture that tolerates poor performance: Doesn't let performers know how they are performing. Performance is contagious.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

CSFs can literally be anything — whether it’s improving customer satisfaction, increasing revenue, reducing operating costs, or something specific to a particular project or deliverable – making them somewhat difficult to identify – let alone define in concrete terms. Are project operations, sales, customer service, etc.

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

Relationship-heavy cultures are marked by inclusion, personal connection, and relationship-based decision making. In another case, an eight-person leadership team scheduled a session to establish email and meeting norms that would reduce the collaborative burden for the whole department. Document agreements.

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Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

Once fun and collaborative workplace cultures can easily become a drag of meetings. Their work trend index tracked the increasing number of documents, chats, emails, and meetings from February 2020 (pre-Covid) to February 2021. This is surely ringing alarm bells for CEOs, Business Managers, and Operations Managers.

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Comatch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Cultural fit – Project leaders should speak to potential consultants to understand how they will truly blend into their environment. Making sure pricing and daily rates are crystal clear and documented before the project begins. . Culture Fit: we encourage clients to seek a proper culture fit from the beginning.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 10, 2016

My friend likes to tell the story of what happened when she planned for a cross-cultural group of people to meet up to go to the lake when they were on holiday in Europe. But the earlier arrivals were a bit bemused by their colleagues, who apparently operated in a different time zone. Assume nothing but good intentions.

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Kraft Kennedy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Document design elements. How will this impact the business operations of the firm? Because there was leadership from the top, everybody showed up for the trainings, which helped to create a culture of learning and will enable everlasting engagement. Product Selection.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Consider that in India in 2016, nearly seven in 10 citizens reported paying a bribe to access basic public services such as public schools, public clinics or hospitals, access to official documents, and utilities, according to Transparency International.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

But I suggest that the problem at Uber goes beyond a culture created by toxic leadership. The company’s cultural dysfunction, it seems to me, stems from the very nature of the company’s competitive advantage: Uber’s business model is predicated on lawbreaking. But Archive.org kept a copy.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2018

What’s more, communication with the board comes in the form of a short, online memo that allows directors to ask questions and comment within the document. Executives can amend the text and answer questions in what is essentially a living document. Governance by Walking About. Governance by Walking About.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Through team-building exercises and the careful establishment of norms and processes, leaders aim to create a culture of trust, psychological safety, and good feeling. But should enterprise leadership teams also pursue cohesion? As he told us, “Creating a culture of performance and results is pivotal.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In larger and more sophisticated data operations, more fine-grained roles are necessary. Here are five key areas that contribute to data science operations. In larger operations, each may be a team unto itself. In small organizations, one person will do several of these things. e.g. running Kafka and a Hadoop cluster.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

” Why do companies get caught up in illegal behavior, harassment, and toxic leadership? Our research identifies an underlying cause: what we call a “masculinity contest culture.” Masculinity Contest Cultures. It produces organizational dysfunction, as employees become hyper competitive to win.

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Harvard Business

JULY 31, 2017

The failure of major transformation projects to deliver the expected benefits is a well-documented phenomenon : many change programs simply do not achieve their business goals. These intangible factors like culture, leadership, and motivation do not yield easily to empirical analysis. It’s time for that to change.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. Senior leadership teams that embrace agile do a few things differently. This takes time. Systematic Inc.,

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2017

Successful change requires strong leadership, working in lockstep with good people to move the rest of the organization in the right direction. We needed to foster a culture that tolerated risk and encouraged new ideas — concepts not readily found in government. Technology enables people and amplifies culture.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 22, 2021

When I was an organizational development consultant for Disney, I worked with the Imagineers and Operators. The Operators viewed Imagineers as people who had their heads in the sky, and Imagineers viewed Operators as so focused on day to day that they couldn't see the big picture. Be clear about who you are trying to develop.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 19, 2016

In fact, there is remarkable unanimity about the solutions as documented in countless reports , panels, and investigations of police brutality, stretching back nearly 100 years to the groundbreaking Wickersham Commission. Departments blame “rogue cops,” not organizational culture. Beginning with James Q.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 5, 2016

This provided us with the rare opportunity to look at a large number of organizations which all: Are regulated, documented, and measured in the same way. Operated in regions with different levels of competition and access to resources. Do improve governance, leadership, and structures first. Provide a similar service.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 19, 2012

(Guest post from John Scherer, Co-Director of Scherer Leadership International , with Billie Alban, President of Alban & Williams, Ltd. What are our operating assumptions and where did they come from? This is the second blog post in a six-part series about the history of OD.). Introduction to this Blog Series. Consulting.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 23, 2017

” People in industries as different as commercial real estate, pharma, biotech startups, hedge funds, and public school districts worried about how to transform a competitive, star-driven culture into a collaborative one when they had no power to juggle financial rewards and no influence over promotion decisions.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

In one case, two operational leaders at Kelly Services, a workforce solutions firm, created a Business Resource Group to promote leadership development and increase employee engagement. Use Tools that Promote a “Giver” Culture. Create Energizing Events. Receiving help creates energy in the form of gratitude.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. That’s why it’s imperative to ensure your strategy deeply resonates with your organizational culture. Along with Reed Hastings, Netflix’s founder and CEO, she wrote a PowerPoint presentation on Netflix culture.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 5, 2012

(Guest post from John Scherer, Co-Director of Scherer Leadership International , and Billie Alban, President of Alban & Williams, Ltd. What are our operating assumptions and where did they come from? This is the first blog post in a six-part series about the history of OD.). Introduction to this Blog Series. Consulting.

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