Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Interestingly, last Thursday I attended a seminar on culture and one of the things the speaker said was that you can’t change your (bad) culture if you keep the same people. Don’t worry if they’re extremely talented, have solid customer relationships, have a wealth of product knowledge or anything else. Take action.

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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 25, 2014

Interestingly, last Thursday I attended a seminar on culture and one of the things the speaker said was that you can’t change your (bad) culture if you keep the same people. Don’t worry if they’re extremely talented, have solid customer relationships, have a wealth of product knowledge or anything else.

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Seth Godin Blog

MAY 19, 2016

Are you more likely to stay at a hotel that you've heard of as opposed to an unknown one, even if 'heard of' refers to the fact that they've run ads? There are more ways than ever to spread the word about your work, but we live in a culture where paid ads still have clout. "As Then consider running ads as if you don't need them.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

In pre-Big Data days, for example, a hotel chain used some pretty sophisticated mathematics, data mining, and time series analysis to coordinate its yield management pricing and promotion efforts. The projections worked fine for about a third of the hotels but were wildly, destructively off for another third.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Most started out as their company’s first salesperson, its first product developer, or both. Oberoi, founder of the Oberoi Group, a leading luxury-hotel company. That’s a powerful differentiator in the world of luxury hotels, of course, which is a high-touch consumer business. But it can help all sorts of companies.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2017

The tech sector, which has become as famous for toxic company cultures as for innovation, and as well-known for human resource headaches as for hoodie-wearing CEOs, could use a little of the mellowness and wisdom that comes with age. But I was an “old-school” hotel guy and had never used Airbnb. Sounded good.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

Close to the Capitol, its office serves dynamic clients in a mix of industries including healthcare, aerospace, defense, and consumer products. The DC office management pushes training programs and the culture is all about grooming employees into McKinsey-bred consultants; they do everything they can to stay on top. Cool, or not?

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Women in Consulting

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

As easy as it might seem, however, translating and producing a product brochure into a foreign language can be tricky business. For example, communicating in Spanish not only reaches those who do not speak English, but also ingratiates your company culturally. For example, a prestigious hotel “on Jones St.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2018

companies $450 billion to $550 billion per year in lost productivity. It wanted to be known for entertainment venues and hotels that were not gaming-centric — such as the Bellagio and MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Organizations spend over $100 billion annually to improve employee engagement. H for hear their story.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

When employees are engaged, they display high levels of enthusiasm, energy, and motivation, which translates into higher levels of job performance, creativity, and productivity. This means not only higher revenues and profits for organizations, but also higher levels of well-being for employees.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Innovative companies have innovative cultures. Think of Google, or of how GE has sustained an innovation culture that goes back to its founding father, Thomas Edison. As mysterious as it can sound, creating a culture of innovation isn’t rocket science. Develop Talent to Develop the Culture.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models? Instead of focusing on major hotel brands, they pursued the long tail, engaging with more than 1 million inns, B&Bs, and apartment buildings in 200 countries. They Use Culture Change to Drive Engagement. Core r epositioning.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2018

Judson Manor is a gracious former 1920s luxury hotel near The Cleveland Clinic, Case Western University, and many of the museums and arts institutions in Cleveland, Ohio. The partnership has been a triumph of efficiency — a win-win for the cultural climate of Judson and often-stretched student bank accounts.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Overall, we found two distinct clusters, which we have categorized as purchase brands and usage brands : Purchase brands focus on creating demand to buy the product, while usage brands focus on creating demand for the use of the product. The whole focus is getting you to buy the product with samples and professional makeovers.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

The culture is really crisp with very intelligent people around; in fact, some of the “best” longest-standing McKinseyites in the world are in NYC and McKinsey has significant support staff in the office as well. Accenture has a nearly-secret, much smaller, unofficial office on 11 Broadway.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

The country’s urbanized and large middle class has maintained a strong preference for foreign-made products despite restrictions due to U.S. There are some exemptions for humanitarian-designated sectors, such as agriculture, food products, health care, and civil aviation.). sanctions and a fragile economy. For non-U.S.-based

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 7, 2022

Innovation doesn't just happen in the workplace without a supportive culture. Company culture is the one thing that influences everything in the workplace. Leaders that focus on cultivating an innovation culture and developing innovative leaders outperform their competition. improved operational productivity.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

In her pioneering research on Silicon Valley’s advantage over Route 128 circa 1990, AnnaLee Saxenian identified some of the major differentiators, from cultural factors to state-level policies. Silicon Valley benefited from a more free-wheeling, less hierarchical, and more risk-taking culture than New England.

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2016

The question that needs to be asked is whether we are more productive and successful with fewer days, or whether work is getting in the way of our success. ” All of us are too steeped in a productivity culture to value doing nothing (which is why we, personally, struggle with our meditation practice).

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

They grow faster, make more money, and are more valued than companies organized around products and services. A production process turns inputs into outputs and distributes them through a tightly controlled supply chain. Value is in the products and services themselves. We normally think of people as something to be managed.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

” nodding towards a modern glass tower next to the Mandarin Oriental hotel. They aren’t looking for places to raise their families or to do productive work. But has it blunted those cities’ cultural creativity, as some have charged? “Some of the apartments cost £50 million or more. Across the U.S.,

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Intuitive decisions invite unconscious (and conscious) biases, creating a nepotistic and political culture where employees feel unfairly treated. For instance, although machines are starting to show signs of creativity , we are a far cry from seeing a robot being entrepreneurial or inventing a new product.

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Women in Consulting

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Build a strong sense of community; make every employee feel like they belong; your company culture should be based on an open-door policy; ensure that all of your employees’ questions are addressed. He had to train other workers, write reports, and attend meetings when wasn’t on the production line. Communication issues.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

There are other management fads like CRM, Lean, TQM, and ABC that are very productive, popular and good. It’s a long read on surveys, but of excellent use if you are planning to work for Bain or are in a leadership team that is focusing on shifting the culture of customer feedback in your organization.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In the age before the digital revolution, marketers used to tell customers about a product and then work through a traditional step-by-step purchase funnel. Fandom begins when customers find others who share the same interests and engagement with the product or brand. ” Read More from Microsoft. This isn’t always easy.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 17, 2016

Some were smaller but no less tell-tale: it took me five weeks on an assignment in Singapore to even realize the hotel overlooked a beach! This is far from easy, as it means confronting deeply held beliefs, many cultural as well as personal, that have served us well to date. The truth is, we are much more fragile than we think.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The closer to the left your products are, the more your managers might be open to changing their behaviors and the culture. TL; DR: “Stop making it harder” is a culture problem. However, note that the corporate Culture (Big-C-Culture) was that they could take advantage of women. The closer to the right?

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