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Gallup Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

GALLUP CONSULTING INTERVIEWS AND CULTURE. He developed research methods and programs for the television and movie industry to help clients determine advertising effectiveness and how to identify what the market wanted to watch in film and television. GALLUP CONSULTING CULTURE. In 2004, that’s just what Gallup did.

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Plan a Better Meeting with Design Thinking

Harvard Business

“Sometimes, when I sit in meetings, especially ones in which people don’t seem engaged, I calculate the cost in staff time. So many meetings are lost opportunities.” They should, according to these statistics on meetings: Organizations hold more than 3 billion meetings each year. Daniel Day/Getty Images.

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Why Do You Do What You Do?

Claris Consulting

Why does Jeff Bezos start his senior leadership team meetings in silence? Why does Tom Brady spend voluminous hours studying film of his opponents? Jeff Bezos starts his meetings in silence to create an environment that fosters laser focus and critical thinking. Why does Taylor Swift still take voice lessons?

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The True Spirit of Mr. Rogers

The Fearless Marketer

On Thanksgiving day, My wife and I went to see the Mr. Rogers film, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. This is one of those rare films that can create a shift in one’s perspective about life. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person. But it rarely lasts very long.

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Accountability + Psychological Safety = High Performance

Nash Consulting

The Anxiety Zone What might the culture in a workgroup look and feel like if standards/accountability are high but psychological safety is low? For a prime example of this zone, watch the film Office Space.) Edmondson’s research laid the foundation for world-class business leader Marie-Claire Ross’s four zones of team performance.

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Your Strategy Has to Be Flexible — But So Does Your Execution

Harvard Business

In the worst case, busyness can become an implicit goal or cultural norm, and the original strategic intent can be lost in a frenzy of detail and activity. Few would deny the importance of corporate culture, for example, even though it is not easily quantifiable. Insight center. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution.

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Dealing with Sexual Harassment When Your Company Is Too Small to Have HR

Harvard Business

This doesn’t just mean men and women who run large global enterprises, Fortune 500 behemoths, film studios, and media platforms. Among the group, 30 had a written sexual harassment policy, 14 had held a company-wide meeting, and 10 had conducted a training session on the subject. In the U.S.

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