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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

An Examination of the Importance of Leadership Behaviors and Attributes on Shaping Culture Executive Summary Organizational culture is a critical factor in financially successful companies. Leaders with dynamic transformational leadership attributes and behaviors are effective culture change agents.

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Want To Be On The Leading Edge? Forget About It.

Markovitz Consulting

Peter Golder and Gerard Tellis’s seminal study of 500 brands in 50 product categories reveals that almost half of market pioneers fail. In fact, the greatest long-term success belongs to companies that enter a market and become leaders about 13 years after these first movers. MITS introduced the first personal computer in 1975.

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Driving Sustainable Growth at an Inflection Point

Brimstone Consulting

Brimstone worked side-by-side with an early-stage consumer goods organization to pursue its vision, build a strategic plan, develop roles and operating mechanisms, and to drive sustainable growth at a challenging inflection point. By: Brimstone In Case Studies Posted August 2, 2019 Reigniting Leadership. Revenue increased by 34 times.

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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

They operate in a bubble and do not attend the party. A finance executive said this of the decades-old corporate attitude, “We are GM. GM market share fell from 62.6% A global IBM study found that 33% of CEOs had engineering degrees and another 15% had finance degrees. Even today, GM has record recalls.

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Emergence of Formal Behavioral Insights Teams and Initiatives

Steve Shu Consulting

For example, Opower tapped into a great market using software-as-a-service and a behavioral efficiency model for saving energy. We took data we gathered in one market, build insights on top, and then tried to line up incentives and behavior change in complementary markets via offerings in a standalone business unit.

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Internal Strategy: Lessons Learned (1 of 2)

Tom Spencer

The strategy team consisted mostly of ex-consultants where our primary role was to execute and coordinate all key activities of the GWAM business, spanning six business units and eight functions, in areas of strategic initiatives, M&A, and corporate finance. Defining and identifying emerging disruptive business models (e.g.,

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When should a startup hire a COO

Asamby Consulting

There comes the time where you as the CEO need to step back from operative work and become more strategic. But without a doubt, having a COO in your startup will help to build a stable operational basis for future growth. Harvard Business Review) However, for many of our clients, the CEO and founder plans to get out of operations.

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