LSA Global

JULY 16, 2018

If you do not know how to deliver bad news as a manager, it is time you learn before it is too late. Unfortunately, too many new or inexperienced managers find it so difficult that they tend to avoid sharing bad news altogether. How to Deliver Bad News as a Manager. Whenever Possible, Deliver Bad News in Person.

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Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2017

My company represents self-employed professionals across the country, and over the last seven years I have interviewed, coached, or worked with more than 200 independent management consultants. Translation: change management for IT projects. Translation: turnaround expert. What situations do you know how to address?

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Consulting Turnaround Exercises Technology Implementation 150

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Bankers do some for roadshows, due diligence, etc but spend 90% of their time in one office until you’re partner-level (this is investment banking; you can expect more travel in private equity and investment management). Relationship with coworkers, managers, and firm. 3 SKILL DEVELOPMENT. 2) Heavy team interaction.

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Banking Boston Consulting Group Consulting Management 272

The Consultants Peer Group

APRIL 3, 2023

It doesn’t matter if the employer is the CEO, a manager, or a supervisor. One of the main lessons he taught me was about how to negotiate the timeline of a task or project so that both the employer and the employee are held accountable. Good leaders know how to listen and listen “until it hurts.” …The Courage of Knowing When.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Many pro services firms still use fragmented systems or analog methods like spreadsheets to manage projects. It prevents you from generating reliable cash-flow forecasts and makes it incredibly difficult to manage resources. How would that help employees improve client experiences – directly or indirectly? fusion development)?

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

FTI expanded into investigation and research capabilities as well as turnaround, restructuring, bankruptcy and forensic accounting with the moves. Records management. In 2005, the firm developed their first 5-year plan with a goal to double revenues from approximately $427M to $1B in 5 years. Restructuring/Turnaround Services.

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Markovitz Consulting

JULY 11, 2017

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. In the same way, I believe that you have to develop the organizational muscles required for continuous improvement through small steps.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

For example, when James Wolfensohn first became president of the World Bank, in 1995, he went on fact-finding trips to developing countries to understand the kinds of projects that the bank was doing. This forced them to go meet these customers and hear how they felt about the company.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

It’s easy to be confused about how to grow in your career. My experience with even the most successful global companies is that they’re between average and poor at developing future talent. They’re often not transparent about your real needs and vague about the most effective development options. Marc Effron.

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Confessions of a Consultant

APRIL 30, 2017

The same basic point applies to new managers joining an organization. New Managers: Almost all New Managers suffer from ‘joining anxiety’ and want to do things quickly. It offered a ‘turnaround’ challenge. Prior to Meyers’ appointment, a new commercial for Bayer Aspirin had been developed.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2017

The career question I hear most often from rising senior leaders is this: “How do I get on the C-suite shortlist?” ” The management literature is overflowing with advice on becoming the boss. With transparency in succession planning becoming a priority, career management for senior executives becomes easier.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Instead, I’ve been more successful with, e.g., ”turnaround specialist” or “business developer.” How to Manage Resistance in Consulting — Part 1 of 3: What is Resistance? Translate This. Read more.].

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Consulting Organizational Development Nonprofit Small Business 76

ConsultX

AUGUST 10, 2021

Gerber Focus - Al Ries How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - Robert B Cialdini Outwitting the Devil - Napoleon Hill Purple Cow - Seth Godin The E-Myth Revisited - Michael E. Conquer the Chaos shows you how. Conquer the Chaos - Clate Mask & Scott Martineau Crush It!

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 5, 2016

To understand how to turn around a failing school quickly, using as few resources as possible, we studied changes made by 160 UK academies after they were put into remedial measures by the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (OFSTED) up to seven years ago. Our findings challenge some of these beliefs.

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freshminds

MARCH 5, 2018

Different industries need to test different skills and therefore depending on whether you’re applying to management consultancies, strategy consultancies or investment banking, your case study will be slightly different. How to answer the case study. Associate Candidate Manager. Mike Okeowo.

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Harvard Business

JULY 9, 2018

But while executive coaches have improved the performance of many already-good managers and sanded the rough edges off many less effective ones, they aren’t a miracle cure. So how do those who control the coaching purse strings — HR, talent managers, and other buyers — avoid throwing money away on uncoachable executives?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Developing what we call an “M&A strategy for talent” is one way to overcome this. Volvo’s turnaround over the last decade offers a great example. Between 2011 and 2015, the company added 3,000 new people in engineering and development. Volvo offers a road map of how to pull it off.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

While the world of quarterly reports is the preserve of managers, the long term is the fiefdom of leaders. As managers deal with delivering short-term results to keep the stock price high and leaders evangelize on the long-term future of the organization, the medium term is all but forgotten. It is pleasingly limitless.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

You accept your first job as a manager in a fast growth tech company, thinking: “How much different could this be from my former company—a financial services firm? Management is management, right?” Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. How talent management is changing.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co. Selectively developing top team members to accomplish the strategy. The job becomes far more complex, requiring a deep understanding of how to make the parts of the organization function together. Not seeking CEOs who value talent development.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

” This is a framework I have developed over the course of 35 years of working with and doing research in corporations around the world. In the fall of 1981, [I challenged] the Elfun Society, an internal management club at GE… It was a networking group for white-collar types.”

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

How to Get the Most Out of an Informational Interview. Hiring managers will see what you have done — and can do for them. You’ll show how you’d improve their organizations, based on what you’ve done in the past. Then add the more detailed bullet points to fill in those stories. You and Your Team Series.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

McKinsey’s digital assessment game Solve is a video game in which candidates problem-solve to manage some form of ecological situation. Time management is certainly a factor. However, McKinsey is more focused on your critical thinking skills and what you display during that time rather than how quickly you can complete each task.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

They have to prove themselves 10 times over before they’re actually given the opportunity, so their development takes longer.” Throughout the study’s assessments of female CEOs, a combination of four traits and competencies emerged as key to their success: courage, risk-taking, resilience, and managing ambiguity.

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Asamby Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2022

This articles outlines how to build a company wiki: Understand if and why you need a wiki Define the goals for your wiki Choose the best tool to house your wiki Define the structure Start creating and compiling content Keep your wiki used and up to date Why do I need a wiki for my company? You need a wiki.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2016

The scope and complexity of the problems at the unit leader level made him uncertain how to allocate his time and he got overloaded. The study also looked at relative levels of support for executives vs. more junior managers. “So taking new roles is just part of their jobs and a core part of their development.”

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2016

Doug identified “Inspiring Trust” as his number one mission in his 10-year turnaround of Campbell Soup Company, where his efforts resulted in cumulative shareholder returns in the top tier of the global food industry, and among the highest measured employee engagement levels in the Fortune 500, particularly with his leadership team.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

The idea of boomerang employees — workers who voluntarily leave a job at an organization and then rejoin that same organization at a later date — is gaining more and more acceptance from hiring managers and in the labor force. If you’re one of these employees, how should you handle your comeback? Here are some ideas.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

After studying and working with hundreds of companies in free fall, we’ve identified concrete steps that leadership teams can take to engineer successful turnarounds and transformations. When a company is in free fall, it makes sense to replace the management team, for all sorts of reasons. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. Garvin generally got right down in the weeds, examining how managerial work really gets done.

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BCG

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Airlines have a tough time getting their arms around OTP and how to manage it—with good reason. OTP is also affected by decisions made in multiple areas, including fleet size and composition, flight crew composition, and flight turnaround times.

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Airlines Turnaround Operations Financial 40

1 to 1

DECEMBER 7, 2021

And this isn’t to say traditional brick-and-mortar shopping is dead, but brands need to be aware how to deliver a great hybrid experience of digital, physical, and everything in between. Retailers will face customers supercharged by digital centricity who are fighting product shortages, higher prices, busy schedules, and holiday craziness.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

As a school leader sets off on this journey, how do they know what to do, when to do it, who to listen to, and how to manage critics along the way? Our study of the actions and impact of 411 leaders of UK academies found that only 62 of them managed their turnaround successfully and sustainably transformed their school.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround. Measure performance carefully and manage with an eye on what’s most important to customers.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

” The challenge faced by all our study CEOs was how to instill that both/and mindset throughout the entire organization. He developed a three-year plan for his turnaround vision, which was translated into annual and quarterly operating plans, and biquarterly responsibilities for his executive team.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. To meet these challenges, we see three priorities for developing the next generation of leaders in the “work-disrupted” age: Mastery of Digital. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. How talent management is changing.

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Jerry Fletcher

OCTOBER 30, 2021

I’ll bet neither have managed to tap you on the shoulder so far. Not long after that I was trying to convince the man who has now been a client for a decade that moving from doing turnarounds as a CEO or COO to Leadership and Management Consulting was significantly different and that he did not have a team in place to handle the shift.

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