Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

People watch sports not just for entertainment, but also to be a part of a shared experience that provides a reliable and safe topic of conversation. In professional settings, presenting information in the ‘right way’ can also hold the key to success when pitching a start-up, advising a client, or giving a product demonstration.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 9, 2015

OC&C STRATEGY CONSULTANTS INTERVIEWS & CULTURE . Known for its incredible family-style and entrepreneurial culture, relaxed work style, and long retention of employees, OC&C competes not only on strategy but also on culture. Industrial Products. OC&C STRATEGY CONSULTANTS CULTURE. Business Services.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

FTI CONSULTING INTERVIEWS & CULTURE. The FTI Technology practice played a substantial role in the Major League Baseball steroids investigation that both news and sports casters covered religiously. Retail & Consumer Products. FTI CONSULTING CULTURE. All the while, the high-profile cases keep rolling in.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 24, 2021

McKinsey’s public sector work or BCG’s consumer product work) or expose you to boutiques whose functional or sector focus matches your interests. Conducting coffee chats to understand firm culture. Outside of his professional interests, Jawad enjoys playing and watching sports, and playing flight simulators. Image: Pexels.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 23, 2015

History & Culture. Tesla Motors first gained widespread attention following its production of the Tesla Roadster, the first fully electric sports car. Starbucks Jobs and Culture. The post Job Hub: Tesla Motors Jobs and Culture appeared first on Management Consulted. ” Enjoy! Prepare for interviews.

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Consulting Matters

JULY 7, 2022

First, I have been talking for the last few episodes about the importance of not just identifying your ideal client but getting in their hearts and minds so you can position yourself, products/services, and copy to connect with them. If you're an org looking for leadership, culture, experience, and transformation, connect with Jim.

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Leadership Vision Consulting

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Strengths help people, teams and cultures become more self-aware and productive. Having worked with numerous high level sports’ teams I know coaches would rather have this information than not have it at all. He has embraced a strengths based culture in his program. It is fun to be a part of.

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Rick Conlow

OCTOBER 2, 2021

The greatest leadership myth is not just about the American culture. Consequently, in business terms they create poor employee engagement, high turnover, lower productivity, and bad customer service. Many research reports demonstrate that higher employee productivity and innovation comes from greater employee satisfaction and loyalty.

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Seth Godin Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The chance to make a difference, to bend the culture. No guests, no fancy production, it won't remind you of NPR or sports radio either. Akimbo is a posture of strength and possibility. It's at the heart of my work. Your work too. The work of making change that we're proud of. And so, a new podcast. A different kind of podcast.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. The better the team learns together, the better the product is. See Product Orientation Requires Technical Excellence ).

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Conventional wisdom suggests that marketers should emphasize the novelty of new products to get people to buy them. Despite the fact that firms spend billions of dollars on developing and marketing new products, these products face persistently high failure rates — often up to 40% to 90%, depending on the product category.

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Rick Conlow

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success.” -Ted It’s like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there’s a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ.” Michael Jordan. Ted Sundquist. “A

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MAY 8, 2023

Studies reveal that a servant leadership style improves employee productivity and creativity. Employees are more likely to provide constructive criticism and engage in productive conflict without fear of exclusion or retaliation. Servant Leadership Quotes "Leadership is an extreme sport requiring both courage and humility."

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. The better the team learns together, the better the product is. See Product Orientation Requires Technical Excellence ).

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 30, 2023

No productive conflict? The reality of a volatile work environment is that it is impossible to train for every potential cross-cultural leadership situation. The effects of visualization and guided imagery in sports performance Kotter, J. What is the alternative to leadership pressure? No aligned goals? No board meetings?

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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2014

The big sports news in Seattle last week was that the Seahawks traded their $20 million (plus three draft choices) mistake, i.e. Percy Harvin. 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. Take action.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Here are some examples of common workplace systems and processes that can get tainted by class-based bias: Hiring, Onboarding, and Culture Fit. Many companies use some sort of “culture fit” criteria to judge whether a candidate would fit in. What is culture fit? For example, what are elite sports?

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Martinka Consulting

JUNE 4, 2021

Keep in mind, baseball players have the best deal compared to all sports as all contracts are fully guaranteed (thanks to Marvin Miller, head of the players association from 1966-1982). They live, eat, drink, and breathe the company culture. There is nothing better an owner can do than have happy and productive employees.

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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 25, 2014

The big sports news in Seattle last week was that the Seahawks traded their $20 million (plus three draft choices) mistake, i.e. Percy Harvin. 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.

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Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

While I can’t comment on the culture in all companies, I do know that many small family-owned businesses have owners who are coasting. By being larger you can reduce most or all of the following: Customers Employees Management abilities Product Owner. How you handle the cultural integration makes a huge difference.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

These ideas are the seeds of innovation : the intellectual foundation for any new products and services that enable some organizations to gain a competitive advantage over others. There is therefore a higher cost and productivity loss when your disengaged employees are creative; but the benefits of engaging them are also higher.

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Martinka Consulting

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Regular readers know that I like to make analogies between sports and business. If you read the sports page (paper and screen) you know this. I hear it’s huge on sports talk radio, which I don’t listen to. Perhaps your equipment is outdated and not productive enough.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Like a playbook in sports that plans for the most frequent and most important in-game situations, a sales playbook is a unique collection of sales scenarios, strategies, plans, tactics, and tools to help a sales team consistently win when the stakes are high. Sales Culture. What Is a Sales Playbook? Sales Talent.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

While there’s often increased pressure to be more productive in the office, it’s sometimes hard not to wonder, “What’s the point?” He’s the CEO and self-titled “Head Coach ” of Björn Borg, the Swedish sports fashion company named after the tennis star. “Take a football player.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 16, 2014

If you are thinking about producing a strategic plan, developing a new product, entering a new market, engaging in a new venture, or financing a project then it probably makes sense to understand the big picture issues that could affect your success. Cultural and sporting events. Buying patterns and consumer preferences (e.g.

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Peter Stark

MAY 1, 2022

In the business of sports, it’s common knowledge that you can’t consistently win without working as a united team. Improving cross-departmental teamwork creates change that deeply impacts the culture of your organization. Unfortunately, some executives and managers don’t feel the same concept applies to their work.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 2, 2017

Some recent projects include issues such as global energy solutions and large international sporting events. If these industries excite you, and you want to experience the exciting culture of the Middle East, A.T. Kearney’s emphasis in the region seems to be projects in Utilities and Oil & Gas.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2018

” Indeed, not just in business but also in politics, sports, and the arts, there is no shortage of real-world examples of successful partnerships that were fueled as much by the alignment of ideas as by creative tension or discord. Leading a Brainstorming Session with a Cross-Cultural Team. William Wrigley Jr., Emma Seppala.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 27, 2016

In 1968, The Ohio State Buckeyes football team started one of the most cherished traditions in American sports. Although leaders are concerned with collective success, most organizations—from sports teams to universities to global companies—still focus on rewarding individual performance.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Add in speeches, training programs, TV programs, online-products, coaches, yoga, and the like, self-help is a $10 billion industry per year , and that’s just in the U.S. These assertions are based on a diverse set of fields, including psychology, sports, arts, and leadership. It accounts for about 2.5% You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2017

Automated programs can recognize products, people, logos, and more. For example, advanced image recognition can be used to track the position of brand logos that appear in video footage of a sporting event, such as a basketball game. Lastly, don’t underestimate the cultural barriers. Measuring brand exposure.

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Martinka Consulting

MARCH 5, 2021

This is a contact sport; the more contacts you make the greater your chance of success and in a shorter period of time. Pay them a fair wage, have a good culture, and keep productivity high. You may think it sexy to make something but if you’re a sales type with no manufacturing experience it’s probably a road to disaster.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

The Lazy Project Manager: How to Be Twice as Productive and Still Leave the Office Early by Peter Taylor The Lazy Project Manager is based on the idea that lazy people always try to find easier ways to do what they have to. So, focusing on 20% of the most important work will result in 80% outcomes.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

What’s more, according to Wharton professor Adam Grant , solution-only thinking creates “a culture of advocacy instead of one of inquiry,” where each person comes into the situation locked into their way of solving the problem and lobbies hard for that particular solution rather than considering multiple perspectives.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The most common ways of doing this are to send executives to build personal relationships with international business partners and to hire local distribution partners — or independent, third-party intermediaries — to represent their products or services overseas.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 15, 2018

Here are three principles I’ve found to be effective in staving off isolation, maintaining productivity, and surrounding oneself with a stimulating cadre of colleagues. So before a meeting starts, ask your colleagues about their recent vacation, their daughter’s sports matches, or their upcoming nuptials.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

But according to data from industries including academia, health care, technology, manufacturing, retail, sports, and business services, people are actually “unconsciously incompetent” in a typical 20% to 40% of areas critical to their performance. Another strategy is to promote a culture of continuous improvement.

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