Harvard Business

MAY 2, 2016

Mindfulness meditation — the practice of cultivating deliberate focused attention on the present moment – has caught on as a way to bring focus, authenticity, and intention to the practice of leadership. Is the answer to simply recruit leaders and board members who engage in contemplative practices? It can’t hurt.

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Strategy Strategy Strategy& Exercises 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

For the past 30 years, the literature on leadership and empowerment has advised leaders not to be too prescriptive about these questions, lest they undermine employee empowerment. It also compromises your own leadership bandwidth, reducing your ability to macromanage. But I suspect an even more fundamental reason is at play here.

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Leadership Agile Metrics Exercises 36

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

While I was working with them, the focus of my PhD gradually shifted toward how economic integration and various factors (domestic, international, political, economic) have impacted Japanese companies’ corporate strategy and operations over the past couple of decades. Hence I entered consulting. ” Pure humor.

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

To better understand how these work, try the exercise below on your own or with your team. ” There are a variety of ways you can use this exercise beyond one meeting. The New York headquarters housed over a third of its workforce, including developers, the sales team, operations, and leadership.

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Exercises Meeting Real Estate Survey 33

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Do you sweat when nervously thinking about how Disney can expand its operations in Brazil? I knew your course focused on strategy consulting – but after reading everything you covered, I figured much of the stuff would overlap with technology and operations consulting too. Am I glad I bought it!! I almost laughed out loud.

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Case Interview Bain McKinsey Interviews 175

Confessions of a Consultant

JANUARY 27, 2019

There were a number of constraints… Simple Roadmap : The project had both organisation and HR elements, including strategy creation, revising the structure, recruitment impacts and so on. Under this heading you co-develop the future strategy with the leadership team and staff – developing something that’s emotionally appealing.

Culture 40

Culture Insurance Insurance Engineering 40

Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

Throughout this period, we have run a strategic execution exercise with executive groups focused on managing new, uncertain, and complex situations. The exercise requires the group to formulate and execute a strategy to achieve a specified outcome, against the clock. There is a familiar saying: “We recruit in our own image.”

Exercises 28

Exercises Recruiting Recruitment Biotechnology 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

But they hoped that the benefits would extend far beyond this objective — that the project would introduce the Opera staff to new ways of thinking that offered the potential to fundamentally change how it operated. But only two of the seven team members completed the exercise. Afterwards, each participant was debriefed.

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Groups Exercises Culture Video 28