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Want to Conduct Organizational Assessments? Here's How to Get Started

Consulting Matters

You can look at the role of a consultant as someone who simply provides solutions to enhance leadership and business results. The insight you glean through interviews and focus groups provide you an independent and outside point of view - one of the key reasons why executives hire consultants in the first place.

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Save the silver bullet – a shameless piece of self promotion!

Ben de Haldevang

It very clearly makes the point that there is no silver bullet but equally sets the record straight for the ill-informed people who maintain that “every integration or transformation is different so why plan ahead or follow any form of framework or guidelines”. A cracking read, well done!!”

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Deciding How to Decide

Nash Consulting

A study conducted by author John Izzo found what’s intuitively obvious: If you want your workers to take a more active role in your workplace culture, you need to listen to what they say. Asking for input every single time or handing off all your decisions to employees is not an effective leadership strategy for many reasons.

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How to Help the Employees You Gain in a Merger Succeed

Harvard Business

Leadership teams and newly acquired talent alike typically and unfortunately overestimate their possession of those qualities. Newly acquired startups and their leadership teams largely think of themselves as entrepreneurs, not employees. The last point is less a guideline than an introspective impression. The decision?

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The Barriers Big Companies Face When They Try to Act Like Lean Startups

Harvard Business

GE vice chairman Beth Comstock spoke to the issues of speed and continual customer input in a 2014 interview, when she said, “We work in these very complex, deep industrial technologies. The first is that lean startup goes against the cultural grain for most companies, and it can threaten the authority of decision-makers.

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Younger and Older Executives Need Different Things from Coaching

Harvard Business

Our data included executives’ scores on personality and emotional intelligence assessments, interviews with their managers and HR, and our case notes. We examined data from 72 executive coaching engagements we conducted from 2008 to 2014. The average coaching engagement lasted six to 12 months.