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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. Be warned that their training is not as formal as most top firms.

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Accountability + Psychological Safety = High Performance

Nash Consulting

Evaluating Your Team's Psychological Safety In teams with high levels of psychological safety, you can observe certain behaviors and attitudes that contribute to a positive and productive team environment. For a prime example of this zone, watch the film Office Space.) Here’s how this works: The Four Zones of Team Performance 1.

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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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Set the Conditions for Anyone on Your Team to Be Creative

Harvard Business

Leading a Brainstorming Session with a Cross-Cultural Team. That goes far beyond the intermittent training that most organizations do. Employees need to constantly write six-page memos, even for introducing small product features throughout their careers at the company. You and Your Team Series. Thinking Creatively.

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Lots of Men Are Gender-Equality Allies in Private. Why Not in Public?

Harvard Business

In the last week, film producer Harvey Weinstein’s decades of sexual harassment — which many have described as an open secret in Hollywood — have exploded onto the pages of the New York Times. Cultural change requires a nucleus of organizational catalysts who are insiders with outsider cultural beliefs.

Film 51
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Why Western Digital Firms Have Failed in China

Harvard Business

Many leading American digital firms, including Google, Amazon, eBay, and Uber, have successfully expanded internationally by introducing their products, services, and platforms in other countries. The widely touted reasons for these failures include censorship by the Chinese government and cultural differences between China and the West.

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My First Nonprofit Job

The Nonprofit Consultant

After about seven years as an independent consultant, in January I began a regular, full-time executive director position with a local nonprofit organization, and spent the month fully immersed in learning the programs, the culture, and the needs. At the time, I was still planning a life in film production.