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Narrow Your Niche to Win More Work as a Solopreneur

Successful Independent Consulting

Working within the intersection between these disciplines, Jack emphasizes leadership development, inter-cultural business communication, employee engagement, and customer focus. Exercise #2: Study Your Work History. This is not a service offering; this is a laundry list of skills. What is his sweet spot? What is he really good at?

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Case Study: Can You Fix a Toxic Culture Without Firing People?

Harvard Business

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. But culturally, it might be time for a purge,” Cam continued. ” “It’s not the people who are toxic,” Joss said, “it’s the culture.

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Leading Across Cultures Requires Flexibility and Curiosity

Harvard Business

Even without speaking the local language, you can learn a huge amount about a country’s culture from tuning into local television shows, especially comedy programs. When I was heading Organization and Management Development at Pepsi International, I would encourage our international executives to study local comedy shows.

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Small Steps or Big Steps: What’s the Right Way to Begin Improvement?

Markovitz Consulting

He describes his “shock and awe” approach (my terminology) in his excellent book The Lean Turnaround , where he takes the company through several week-long kaizen events. But I’m struggling to reconcile his success with everything I’ve seen and studied, which runs counter to Byrne’s experience.

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When Is Teamwork Really Necessary?

Harvard Business

When promoted to his new role, he inherited a group of district sales managers responsible for selling to hospital systems in their respective geographies. Catherine, a senior marketing director leading a cross-functional product development team at the same company, provides a contrasting case study.

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Are You a Toxic Leader?

Peter Stark

Of the many surveys our firm has conducted, we have learned that people may join an organizations,but they absolutely leave because of the relationship they have with their managers. Most often, they’re going to need additional help in developing the strategies and actions to make a positive turnaround.

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PE Firms Are Creating a New Role: Leadership Capital Partner

Harvard Business

Most of the LCPs we studied began with the task of ensuring the PE firm itself had the right talent, culture, and leadership, and then moved on to do the same for portfolio companies. A company turnaround focuses on costs and can often be done through financial reengineering and cost cutting measures.