Effective Managers

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Here is an article written by David Norman, Chair at The Consultants Peer Group (TCPG). David has created TCPG, a peer group for and about consultants only. David is a very experienced management consultant, currently on the national board of the Institute of Management Consultants in the USA.

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The Consultants Peer Group

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In 1973 during my first job in management consulting and while facing a decision with a client, my mentor Nathaniel Hill said, “Do you want your actions to be above the fold?” I’ve written about it before (see also Consulting Ethics Concern, Once Again , Lions, TIgers, Consultants, Oh My! Go re-read the Title and Subhead.

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IMC USA

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The Institute of Management Consultants USA (IMC USA, www.imcusa.org ) is pleased to announce that Wayne Outlaw CMC® is a recipient of its prestigious Distinguished Service award for continued service and demonstration of strong, long-term support of IMC USA. Mr. Outlaw is the President of Outlaw Group, Inc.,

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 25, 2024

Strong manager-employee relationships through great leadership leads to positive outcomes After hearing so many people talking about the Apple TV show Ted Lasso and using it in the context of business leadership, I had to see what caused all the buzz. Workers with great managers tend to perform well and experience higher positive affect.

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The Management Centre

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

We listened in on a conversation between our leadership expert, Yvette Gyles (=mc Learning Director) and Cassie Edmiston (Head of Fundraising, Prisoners’ Education Trust ), to see what they think it means to be an ethical leader in 2019. It is not the same as management. Yvette: So really ethical leadership is a juggling act.

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 11, 2024

Leaders striving for a better workplace may suffer consequences In a recent post on LinkedIn from the Business & Management Consultants open group, a contributor posted, “A manager who challenges the boss and stands up for their team, despite risking their own career, is a true leader.” I complied; he didn’t.

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IMC USA

JUNE 5, 2018

June 5, 2018 — The Institute of Management Consultants USA (IMC USA, www.imcusa.org ) announces the election of Juan A. As IMC USA’s new Chair, Juan Negroni is an active Management Consultant who advises and guides companies in connecting and re-connecting with team members before, during, and after labor strife and organizational change.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 23, 2017

Our research in Egypt , Zimbabwe , and India shows that organizations should view the prospect of building a strong ethical reputation in such environments as an opportunity, and consider the costs of resisting corruption as an investment in building such a reputation. Ethics Can Be a Differentiator.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

By tracing the essence of governance back to these fundamental components, we uncover a profound realization: governance is the mechanism through which the conflicting interests of individuals are managed within a larger group. Effective governance also impacts employee commitment to ethical conduct.

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The Consultants Peer Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Bruce Henderson, Boston Consulting Group And so on… These, and other firms, were formed in a different time when professionalism meant something powerful. Marvin Bower was recognized as a Fellow in the Institute of Management Consultants, USA, in 1988 (the year I became a CMC®), but more on IMC USA later. Ponder the effect (repeat).

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Corporations often approach ethics as an individual problem, designing oversight systems to identify the “bad apples” before they can turn the organization into a “rotten barrel.” They replicate despite changes in leadership and in management systems. Vince Streano/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

A few years ago, I was teaching a two-day program about ethics in India for entrepreneurs and business faculty who taught entrepreneurship. The program in Delhi started as many of these programs do: A group of cordial but skeptical participants sat with arms crossed and gentle smirks, leaning back in their chairs.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Most companies have ethics and compliance policies that get reviewed and signed annually by all employees. “Employees are charged with conducting their business affairs in accordance with the highest ethical standards,” reads one such example. Creating an Ethical Workplace. You and Your Team Series. Mark Chussil.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 29, 2016

It’s hard for good, ethical people to imagine how these meltdowns could possibly happen. But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? Wells Fargo. Volkswagen. and the U.K.,

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IMC USA

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Successful Management Consultants from around the Globe to Gather in Orlando, FL. The Conference for Successful Management Consultants. WASHINGTON, DC – The Institute of Management Consultants USA (IMC USA), announced that it will host Grow! Both groups will meet together for this event in Orlando Florida October 4 – 6, 2012.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 30, 2019

My Reply: There is no right answer for everyone and depends on your personal sense of ethics. But , there will be one person out there in the world who considers you at worst dishonest, at best lacking ethics. For the latter group, they get their investment back in full typically in one U.S. Looking forward to hearing from you!

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Epicflow

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Being a successful project manager is not just about creating good plans and schedules and telling the team members what they should work on. What else should a project manager know to succeed in their duties and guide projects to their successful completion? Read more: Key Personal Qualities of an Excellent Project Manager.

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Harmonious Workplaces

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Since I’ve shown a little grey in my beard, I can verify from my experience that some hiring managers do not look favorably on older workers, especially job seekers. After five or so interviews, the hiring manager stated that they wanted a “digital native.”

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Organizational Talent Consulting

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In-group favoritism results in actions that favor one group. When leaders demonstrate selfless love, they cultivate an organizational culture where healthy and caring leader-follower relationships break down the adverse effects of in-group and out-group differences. The Journal of Management Development, 23 (4), 321-338.

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Henman Performance Executive

AUGUST 15, 2013

Ethics forms the foundation for everything that needs to happen in any organization, but it should not be on the list. Ethics should never appear to be a performance issues. Rather, ethical behavior should be a condition of employment. You can’t mentor ethics and shouldn’t try. You either are or you aren’t ethical.

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NeoAcademic

MARCH 25, 2021

Direct link to the application and formal job ad: [link] As part of a recently-funded US National Science Foundation project in which we will be building an online virtual interviewing platform, my laboratory will be hiring a part-time project manager with work to do for roughly the next two years.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Our previous work showed that members of groups that had done something good, such as selecting to interview a Hispanic applicant for a job, felt licensed merely by their membership in the group to later act badly on their own —in this case, they discriminated against the minority job candidate.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

One of the many things managers worry about is employees breaking the rules. Companies have tried many different ways to limit unethical behavior, from creating codes of conduct to implementing ethical training. We advise managers to consider the context of their teams’ work. and 201 lab participants in the UK and the U.S.,

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Management Consulted

APRIL 20, 2016

MBA programs for Management Consulting – and the results may surprise you. Kellogg School of Management – Northwestern University. Tuck’s Class of 2015 placed 34% of its students in management consulting, with a vast majority of those going to MBB firms. With that in mind, we compiled the 2016 Top 10 U.S

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Consulting and Organizational Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Facilitator – helping a group to decide what it wants to accomplish and then helping the group to achieve those desired results. Facilitator – guiding groups or individuals through learning experiences. For more resources, see the Free Management Library’s topic All About Consulting. Career Management.

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Rick Conlow

JUNE 1, 2021

Does this person collaborate with and unify diverse groups of people? Edelman’s Trust Barometer shows nearly half of employees do not trust business leaders to make honest or ethical decisions. Will this person help others without looking for a payback at some level? particularly when the person is not there.).

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Some employees even claimed that they were fired for calling the internal ethics hotline. These claims raise important questions that every major company needs to ask: Are employees aware of our ethical standards and the laws surrounding our business? Or, like Wells Fargo, is management tone-deaf when employees try to blow the whistle?

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 21, 2023

The data analysis may reveal that many customers are looking for sustainable and ethical clothing options. We can use machine learning algorithms to identify patterns in patient data and identify specific groups of patients who have a high risk of complications or readmission.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Managing Boundaries in Systems By Jim Smith on September 28, 2010. Systems manage their boundaries, for better of for worse: too open boundaries threaten the system with a loss of identity, too tight and the systems tend to run down. We were a pretty creative group, as people tend to be doing this work. Library Blogs Home.

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Epicflow

JULY 12, 2022

However, according to the survey by NewVantage Partners [1] conducted in 2021, only 24% of companies have managed to develop into data-driven ones. Prioritization and automation of data management. . Data privacy, ethics, and security will be treated as areas of required competency. Surprising figures, aren’t they?

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 31, 2023

Machine learning can be valuable in areas like marketing and customer relationship management where large amounts of data are collected on customer behaviour through various channels such as websites, social media, and e-commerce platforms. The quantity of data can be overwhelming and difficult to make sense of.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MAY 5, 2013

How to Manage Resistance in Consulting — Part 1 of 3: What is Resistance? Welcome to this 3-part article on managing resistance in consulting projects. Business Ethics, Culture and Performance. Career Management. Crisis Management. Free Management Library Blogs. Project Management. Read more.].

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Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Historically stable jobs such as those in software development, information management, and mathematics have seen some of the most dramatic drops in the workforce , with reductions in hiring of as much as 50% in some sectors and layoffs reported by watchlists on TechCrunch and other sites. link] Jiang, K., & Messersmith, J. Hellgren, J.,

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Harmonious Workplaces

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

While we should guard against generalizing behavior and ignoring individual differences, each generational cohort tends to represent distinctive worldviews, ideals, and conflict management styles, making the workplace the “central theater” for the manifestation of generational identity (Lyons et al, 2019). Gerpott et al. Schultz, N.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

« Previous Next » Meet this Blog’s Co-Hosts Carter McNamara of Authenticity Consulting, LLC, provides organization development and consultant training services, and is developer of the Free Management Library. How to Manage Resistance in Consulting — Part 1 of 3: What is Resistance? Career Management.

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Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Providing safe work conditions, equitable pay and reasonable management should be considered “cover charges” for the privilege of hiring others to work for you. As a consultant, I met with many employees through focus groups and one-on-one interviews. It puts a lot of pressure on managers to be everything to everyone.

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Rick Conlow

AUGUST 19, 2021

Research also suggests that managers who focus on service to others are more successful than those that do not. Aspiring and experienced supervisors, managers and executives alike have benefited from their findings. It included 20,000 managers from four continents. Too many managers are negative. It is contagious.

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