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The Lockdown Unlocks Real Work

Markovitz Consulting

Low-value travel? Elaborately defined, documented, and monitored processes and procedures? The preparation for that week, combined with the burden of having the leadership team unavailable for such a long period of time, hamstrung Ford’s ability to react to operational issues in a timely manner. Long commutes?

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Leadership Tip #13: For Innovation, Remove at Least One Policy or Procedure a Week

Johanna Rothman

During the three-day outage, they learned: Because the deployment team felt pressure to deploy, they didn't read the documentation carefully enough. Or, the person must adhere to onerous policies, especially for travel, to get reimbursed. This is a part of the series of intermittent leadership tips.

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Government Contracts Pricing Strategy – Ten Dynamic and Synergistic Pricing Practices

Granite Leadership Strategies

The proposal price is important enough to get much of the attention of most company leadership teams. A collaborative Government contracts pricing team has the strong encouragement of company and proposal team leadership as well as solid practices, particularly to get going earlier in the process than most of their competitors.

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Project Management Areas You Need to Rethink

PM Alliance

On-demand e-learning, for example, offers tangible value value for workers who prefer not to travel or who would feel hamstrung by the pace of traditional courses led by an instructor in real-time. It can also be a useful option to trim travel expenses and minimize downtime, further enabling cost efficiency and productivity.

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What is Executive Coaching?

Organizational Talent Consulting

The ultimate goal of executive coaching is a positive transformation in life and leadership for the client (e.g., The benefits of investing in executive coaching are well documented. Typically leadership coaching includes using a 360-degree assessment to improve feedback and awareness for the client. The Leadership Quarterly.

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Job Hub: Virgin Group Jobs and Culture

Management Consulted

Today we highlight tremendous business analyst and post-consulting leadership jobs at Virgin Group. This group has a startling 300 companies in its portfolio in sectors ranging from travel, telecommunications, health, financial services, leisure, music, space travel, and renewable energy. History & Culture.

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Job Hub: Airbnb Jobs and Culture

Management Consulted

Today we highlight tremendous business analyst and post-consulting leadership jobs at Airbnb. They sought to create this type of connection experience for people everywhere when they traveled, and the idea for the bigger Airbnb was born. Expect to be pampered and taken care of by this company because from day 1 your benefits start.

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