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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

An Examination of the Importance of Leadership Behaviors and Attributes on Shaping Culture Executive Summary Organizational culture is a critical factor in financially successful companies. But culture change is often overwhelming and elusive. Section three focuses on proven approaches to architect organizational culture.

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The Future Face of the Consulting Industry

Tom Spencer

Contrary to the more traditional consulting model, whereby the client hands over a brief and the consultant only makes subsequent contact to ask questions or to provide the finished product, consultants and clients increasingly work together to clarify the problem and identify possible solutions. Shift 2: Q&A Culture.

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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

Yet, their work cultures produce 85% disengaged employees. By not dancing, CEOs cost their companies billions of dollars of lost employee innovation, productivity, and customer service. A finance executive said this of the decades-old corporate attitude, “We are GM. Even today, GM has record recalls.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

They seized this opportunity to establish a firm that would help firms gain clarity about their business models, products, and clients and then advise them by creating long term strategies. Industrial Products. Retail and Consumer Products. Corporate and Finance and Advisory. Surface Transportation. Public Policy.

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The Economics of Why Companies Don’t Fix Their Toxic Cultures

Harvard Business

Over the last decade, industries, academics, and the public sector have turned their focus toward culture and ethics in response to the financial crisis as well as misconduct at a broad range of corporations. But what role does culture play in corporate misconduct, and why do these problematic cultures persist?

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PEST Analysis

Tom Spencer

If you are thinking about producing a strategic plan, developing a new product, entering a new market, engaging in a new venture, or financing a project then it probably makes sense to understand the big picture issues that could affect your success. Cultural and sporting events. Prohibitions, taboos, and ethical issues.

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A Leader’s #1 Task: Replicate Yourself!

Makarios Consulting

Leaders who express this complaint are often dominant personalities characterized by robust confidence, high intelligence, strategic brilliance, and a flawless work ethic. The problem is that such dominant personalities can easily influence the corporate culture. This leader-centric, follower-heavy culture is self-perpetuating.