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Top Power Skills Every Organizational Consultant Needs

Consulting Matters

It includes: HR practices such as training, staffing and communication, performance metrics and rewards, and performance management and coaching. I typically am not a fan of values exercises with executives because what they come up with is often what they think makes them sound better but doesn't reflect their true values.

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Subscription Businesses Are Booming. Here’s How to Value Them

Harvard Business

Likewise, what is the right set of metrics that company executives should use to manage their subscription businesses in order to hold themselves fully accountable to their stakeholders? The majority of the disclosures they provided at the time were standard top-down metrics (e.g., that aggregate sales in the U.S.

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A 4-Step Process to Help Senior Teams Prioritize Decisions

Harvard Business

Consider the experience of one of the world’s largest footwear manufacturers, whose leaders engaged in an exercise that others can use to revamp the way they make decisions. For the footwear manufacturer, the exercise turned out to be less straightforward than it initially appeared. It consists of these four steps: 1.