Confessions of a Consultant

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

I suppose it was only a matter of time until my musical talent was discovered. The currently fashionable way to do this (and management trends are a ‘fashion item’) is to secure employee engagement. But how then do we explain ‘high productivity’ in environments that are typically low engagement? It’s a win: win.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2018

You may want to discard some connections upfront — for instance, someone who came up to you, handed you their card, and immediately started pitching you to buy their product or service. Finally, you’ll meet some people with whom you’d like to build a long-term connection. Building a deeper relationship.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Product innovation sits at the intersection of R&D, marketing, and business intelligence. More than just meeting cadences, it includes how strategy is set and prioritized, how resources are allocated, and how performance is measured. Great service sits at the intersection of sales, customer service, and supply chain.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Before meeting someone new — whether it’s a potential employer or a new client — do your homework. Know who you’re meeting, what he cares about, and what he might need from you. When meeting someone new, it’s normal to be nervous but you don’t want your anxiety to show. Prepare talking points.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2018

” For many people, struggling to make ends meet — even while doing what you love — would be the stuff of nightmares. At many companies, mobility defines talent: the people who feel safest are those who know they can leave, and the people organizations are often most desperate to keep are those with ample options elsewhere.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2016

Such communities are particularly useful in recruitment, hiring, talent development, or in defining employee retention policies. This can be top down, (the company set up a particular challenge or new product) or bottom up (the company allows employees to develop their own creative ideas, and then choose the most convenient ones).

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

They are incredibly strategic, looking 20 to 30 years ahead, to understand how society is evolving, how they can shape it, and how they can get the talent to do this. ” Talent is drawn to them, to help them achieve their purpose. But they don’t just wait for talent to turn up.

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Confessions of a Consultant

AUGUST 12, 2018

Management consulting can be likened to a ‘fashion business’, in the sense that new ideas fall in and out of vogue all the time. The book attempted to distil the methods deployed by the best-managed companies to create what’s sometimes referred to as sticky talent. Don’t take talent for granted.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

She works with retail, technology, and lifestyle client companies on setting up market and brand strategies, brand positioning, transitioning markets, and marketing new products lines. It might be those looking to move into a new region, new market, launching new product line. The products and services were developed from there.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2017

Over the past three years, I conducted a research project on men, masculinity, and fashion. It’s more common in the arts and fashion industries, but men also choose to dress fabulously in professional organizations. However, he will tone down his outfits based on whom he is meeting that day. ” Olu.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2018

Instead, they want a relationship model – a durable, cooperative model that enables companies to partner with academia in a fashion that allows them to stay continuously connected to early stage research and to accelerate the translation of that research into new products that drive economic growth.

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Confessions of a Consultant

MAY 28, 2017

Being able to run errands e.g. to pop around to the Supermarket – if you need to – decreases stress (and increases productivity). Don’t hide your talent under a bushel! Higher Productivity: A recent HBR article found that people working from home completed 13.5% Less dry-cleaning bills! Less distractions.

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Confessions of a Consultant

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Ambiguity around personal goals, leads to anxiety, misplaced effort and lost productivity. From the early concept of Quality Circles (circa 1970) to more recent experimentation with self–direction, teamworking can positively affect morale, innovation and productivity. Am I the goalkeeper or the centre forward?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It was a productive 12 months, to say the least. Speaking from this year’s UN global climate meeting – which happened to coincide with the U.S. Others want to attract and retain diverse talent. IKEA is expanding its circular offerings like reselling used furniture and creating new products from leftover textiles.

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