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AlixPartners Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

AlixPartners is an international business advisory firm based in Southfield, MI known for its work in corporate turnarounds, bankruptcy assignments and restructuring. Generally regarded as turnaround market leaders, AlixPartners is doing a killer job at taking up more room in the consulting space by strategically hiring a plethora of gurus.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

FTI CONSULTING INTERVIEWS & CULTURE. FTI expanded into investigation and research capabilities as well as turnaround, restructuring, bankruptcy and forensic accounting with the moves. Restructuring/Turnaround Services. FTI CONSULTING CULTURE. 1999: FTI Consulting began trading as a public company on the NYSE.

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The Key to Campbell Soup’s Turnaround? Civility.

Harvard Business

You can shorten meetings in an effort to value people’s time and write personal thank you notes for jobs well done. ” One of the first things Doug did to address the dysfunctional, low-performance environment was to visibly set expectations for how he intended to create a more civil culture built on respect.

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

Harvard Business

Franklin had finally returned to profitability, but she and Cameron Koren, a turnaround specialist who’d been brought in as CEO five years earlier to right the ship, were still working hard to keep the business on track. She recounted her meeting with Marshall. But culturally, it might be time for a purge,” Cam continued.

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Leading Across Cultures Requires Flexibility and Curiosity

Harvard Business

Perhaps nervous about the meeting in the morning, you find yourself lying on the bed flicking through the TV channels for something to watch to keep you awake to offset the growing jet-lag. Being able to tune into a culture without pre-conceived biases or judgment is a skill all leaders need in complex, global organizations.

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How to Evaluate Your Marketing Leader’s Performance

Prudent Pedal

Preparation: Your marketing leader will do most of the prep for this meeting. Annual Review Questions: How did you perform in meeting the needs of our partner requests? Ask questions about production efficiency, turnaround times, collateral organization/dissemination, and costs. Culture and organizational effectiveness.

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When Is Teamwork Really Necessary?

Harvard Business

Although his one-on-one meetings with these reports, which involved progress reviews, motivation, and coaching, were highly productive, his monthly team meetings weren’t. So what he mostly needed was hub-and-spoke, one-on-one leadership, through weekly individual meetings, supplemented by periodic group get-togethers.