Consulting Matters

JANUARY 23, 2020

It’s a jungle out there Disorder and confusion everywhere No one seems to care, well I do Hey, who’s in charge here…” Randy Newman, It’s a Jungle Out There. As a consultant, I have exposure to the inner workings of companies of all sizes and in all industries. Over the past few years, I have noticed an increasing trend of excess stress experienced by employees at all levels, particularly at the executive level.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 23, 2020

I wrote about how to pick a driver in Part 1. In Part 2 , I wrote about how you might finesse some of the constraints and floats if you can release frequently. What if you're like this organization, Acme? Acme has been working towards agility for the last couple of years. However, they still have these problems: Their stories are too large to ship something every day or even every other day.

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On the Brink Podcast

JANUARY 23, 2020

Hear how women-owned businesses are kicking it! Today’s podcast is all about a topic that we here at SAMC are working on ourselves: how to help women create and grow their businesses. My conversation with Alicia Robb was wonderful. Alicia has spent ten years as a senior fellow at the Kaufman Foundation in St. Louis studying entrepreneurship and particularly women entrepreneurs.

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Martinka Consulting

JANUARY 23, 2020

It’s common knowledge cable and satellite TV companies have been losing customers to cord cutting, i.e., people using only online streaming services for their in-house viewing entertainment. So it has to have been a balancing act for these firms on how to keep customers, advertisers, and content providers happy. For years it seemed customers were at the bottom of the list with an example being watching recorded shows on a DVR.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 23, 2020

Do you wish you were more plugged-in at your organization? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Robin Abrahams, a research associate at Harvard Business School. They talk through what to do when you want to network at a company retreat, your manager is bothered by your schmoozing with their peers, or you want to know about plum projects before they get assigned to someone else.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 23, 2020

They may have served you well at some point, but they don’t anymore.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 23, 2020

In 2019, California showed us how costly a sustained power outage can be.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 23, 2020

Succession, compensation, and underperformers.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 23, 2020

Managers, it’s not as hard as you think.

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