David A Fields

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Narcissists. They attract admirers like trick-or-treaters to chocolate. Countless throngs buy their offerings—metaphorically or literally. As consultants, we don’t want to be narcissists; yet, narcissistic competitors can eat your consulting business alive. Narcissistic personalities have been very visible as of late. Many may be what Michael Maccoby calls “productive narcissists,” whose aggressive energy, engaging charm, and relentless self-importance power impressive business success.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Today, we highlight tremendous business analyst and post-consulting leadership jobs at Google. Google is a California-based company that many consider to already run the world! With over 70 offices and 30,000 employees around the world, Google has become THE major player in Internet products and services in only 15 years. Enjoy! ———— History & Culture.

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BCG

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Focus Thursday, October 27, 2016. Employee engagement is a critical indicator of a company’s success. Engaged employees feel a bond with their company, are proud to work there, and take steps to improve the company’s prospects. However, BCG’s latest research shows that some of the world’s biggest and best-known companies have lower engagement than they should among senior-level women.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 22, 2016

This is a guest post from Marguerite Arnold. I am a bit of a late bloomer in some ways – certainly academically. At the age of 48, I decided, after a life spent in business of all kinds, to go back to school, obtain my EMBA, and focus on an entrepreneurial career. It’s not really that delaying my master’s was a choice. When I was younger, I couldn’t get a school loan.

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Melissa Agnes

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In the DDoS attack that left some of the world’s online leaders in the dark last week, did Dyn, Inc. – the target of the attack – prove to be #crisisready? I explore this question in this week’s #crisisready video. Take a look: Related links you may find interesting: Dyn’s official response to the DDoS crisis. Dyn’s response to the incident on Twitter.

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BCG

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Focus Tuesday, October 25, 2016. Quietly, and to a surprising degree, new technologies are revolutionizing agriculture. A seventh-generation Indiana farmer, Kip Tom, described the farm-level changes this way: “A Midwestern crop farmer has 40 opportunities in his lifetime to produce a crop. If we fail, we risk losing it all. So we typically haven’t wanted to experiment with new ways of farming.

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Strategy+Business

OCTOBER 24, 2016

According to this year's Global Innovation 1000 study -- an examination of the 1,000 public companies that spend the most on researching and developing products for their markets -- the world's major innovators are shifting more of their R&D to software and services. The shift is being driven by the supercharged pace of improvement in what software can do, the increasing use of embedded software and sensors in products as varied as power turbines and cars, and rising customer expectations.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2016

It’s a common complaint among top executives: “I’m spending all my time managing trivial and tactical problems, and I don’t have time to get to the big-picture stuff.” And yet when I ask my executive clients, “If I cleared your calendar for an entire day to free you up to be ‘more strategic,’ what would you actually do?

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 28, 2016

It should be clear to even the casual observer that the FBI purposely failed to investigate the Hillary email server scam as well as improprieties the Clinton foundation. Today the FBI reconsidered. So here we are, 11 days from the election, with an unprecedented FBI probe of the likely next president of the United States, who will undoubtedly be given a pardon by president Obama in his final finger to US citizens.

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BCG

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Report Tuesday, October 25, 2016. Every company aspires to be a top value creator. Relatively few actually achieve this—and even fewer are able to sustain top performance over time. Doing so requires continually revisiting a company’s value creation strategy and adapting it to changing circumstances and new starting positions. One of the most powerful ways to drive continual adaptation is active portfolio management.

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Strategy+Business

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Today's marketer has more options to reach her target audience than ever before. And yet, it has never been more difficult to earn the attention and engagement of that user. This is the essence of the "marketer's dilemma." Strategy& conducted in-depth interviews with CMOs and senior marketing executives from a range of sectors. These conversations have made it clear that solving the marketer's dilemma will require marketers, media publishers and marketing service providers to reshape their capab

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Chad Barr

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Today is the third and final part in the series reflecting on my recent take-away from my developmental experiences. Here are the latest insights I’d like to share with you: Are you thinking big enough? To answer this question, consider answering and evaluating the following: Are you doing something outside your comfort zone that even scares you? Are you living and leading an amazing life?

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 27, 2016

In an interesting tweet that shows investor herding into a small subset of high-beta stocks, Jeff Macke notes Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google, collectively named (FANG) account for over 90% of S&P 500 market cap gains since December 2014. (more…).

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OCTOBER 24, 2016

Article Monday, October 24, 2016. “They are disrupters, rabble-rousers, and activists.” That’s how one participant described more than 45 human resources leaders who gathered in New York City on September 30th for BCG’s fourth annual CHRO Summit. The theme this year: strategies for a new era of human resources. . Kicking off the meeting, former acting Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Brad Carson challenged the group to step back and think about the fundamental ways in which

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Strategy+Business

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Market leadership is the ability of a company to dominate and shape its business ecosystem. Different industries have different patterns (and definitions) of market leadership; only if you understand the particular pattern in your industry can you position your company effectively.

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Gina Abudi

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Change is often thrust upon employees with little to no warning. And given the normal reaction to change – we hate it! – this does not make for an easy transition for employees. What often happens is that productivity decreases as employees focus on what the change means for them – which is usually a [.]. The post Leadership Best Practices: Make Discussions about Change a Part of Regular Meetings appeared first on Gina Abudi.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Otto, a driverless technology company bought out by Uber, just completed its first driverless mission. It was a beer run of 45,000 to 50,000 cans of Budweiser from an Anheuser-Busch facility in Loveland, Colorado to a destination in Colorado Springs, about 120 miles away. (more…).

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This White Paper targets opportunities for Management to develop proficiency in the Decision Framing and Analyses element of input to Decision, & Risk Analyses for Major Project Funding Decisions.

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BCG

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Report Thursday, October 27, 2016. This is an era of disruption. Technology innovation, the intensifying march of digitization, and the cumulative effect of the “big exponentials”—the laws of accelerating growth governing processing power, storage, and bandwidth—are shattering, reshaping, and redefining economics in and across industries. Companies in the technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT) sectors are in the vanguard, bringing these new opportunities to market—even as their legacy b

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Strategy+Business

OCTOBER 23, 2016

A punishing trek is a painful reminder to get your strategic fundamentals right.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2016

When it comes to organizational change, failure continues to be more common than success. In a survey of nearly 3,000 executives about the success of their enterprise transformation efforts, McKinsey discovered the failure rate to be higher than 60%, while Harvard Business Review conducted a study that suggested more than 70% of transformation efforts fail.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 22, 2016

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi threatened to step down if a December government-reform measure he seeks does not pass. The reform will dramatically reduce the power of the Senate. It will also give a parliamentary majority to the party that gets the most votes. Renzi wants that authority. Ironically, if the referendum does pass, Italy is more likely to leave the Euro than if it doesn’t.

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BCG

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Article Tuesday, October 25, 2016. Ever since BCG introduced the growth share matrix, in the 1960s, executives have understood that portfolio management is a critical component of any strategy for superior value creation. As more and more companies must justify the value creation logic of their business portfolios in response to pressure from activist investors, portfolio management is more important than ever.1 Partly in response to such pressure, spinoffs have become one of the most popular st

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Strategy+Business

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Managers can recognize and mitigate the stress experienced by employees responsible for "necessary evils" such as laying off colleagues.

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Clarity Consultants

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Your current team will not be your "forever team." Co-workers, colleagues, and even supervisors come and go with time. It's important to recognize that even though your team might seem mission critical, there will inevitably come a time when you have to dive into the talent pool and select some more eager workers to help you do business. Are you ready to onboard, nurture, and let the next generation of talent drive your success?

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 26, 2016

September new home sales came in at a seasonally adjusted annualized rate (SAAR) of 593,000 units, a bit under the Econoday Consensus Estimate of 601,000. The key headline in today’s report is the massive downward revision to reported numbers in July and August. August sales went from 609,000 to 575,000. July sales went from 659,000 to 629,000.

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