Consulting Matters

MARCH 27, 2020

Dig into your memory banks and find all the times that you got yourself out of difficult experiences, rose after failure, found meaning in suffering and challenge. It's hard enough when it's only your career that takes a hit. Here's some advice that hopefully will help you cope and see the light at the end of this trial: 1.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ll never forget the moment the Disney team turned around the performance of the Animal Kingdom theme park. This beautiful park opened in 1999, full of compelling backstories and adventure. However, it wasn’t resonating with the Disney guests as expected. Betsy Jordyn International. They want more, but just not more of the same.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Can you imagine not opening a gift you were given? Even with unwanted crises in business and life, reflection offers a gift. Even with unwanted crises in business and life, reflection offers a gift. Each new year offers an advantage of perspective - through reflection only created by time.

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Chad Barr

MAY 19, 2021

What are some of the failures you have encountered, what should you have done differently, how will you prevent these from happening again while turn them into successes? What are some of the failures you have encountered, what should you have done differently, how will you prevent these from happening again while turn them into successes?

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Chad Barr

AUGUST 4, 2021

What a gift you give. It acknowledges that success is achieved through trial and error, growth through failure, but in having traveled the road of incredible work, tenacity and strength to arrive at this particular moment in time. You ached and stumbled, you got back up and you chased down every taste of victory you could.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 25, 2022

When leaders avoid difficult feedback or do not handle conversations well, it can lead to relationship strife, failure, and missed growth opportunities. One of the greatest gifts any leader can receive is the rare gift of being told what they need to hear, but others are unwilling to say. Let's face it. Erwin McManus.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Evidence suggests that psychological safety is at the core of highly competitive organizations. An absence of physical safety leads to serious accidents, but the absence of psychological safety leads to poor employee mental health and company performance below expectations. This is the stage where individuals can innovate. Timothy Clark.

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Chad Barr

MARCH 21, 2018

No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. “Life presents us with amazing gifts and opportunities. ” Many before you have created masterpieces from their failures and dreams. I wanted to share with you some quotes from truly exceptional leaders to spring you forward as well.

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Seth Godin Blog

JULY 4, 2014

If you accept the results you''ve gotten before, if you hold on to them tightly, then you never have to face the fear of the void, of losing what you''ve got, of trading in your success for your failure. And the belief that it''s possible is a gift. But even this sort of help requires that you show up for it.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 5, 2015

An ingrained fear of failure that extends to the commercial world and business start-ups, to the point where in Australia there is a very negative attitude towards anyone who declares bankruptcy, the net result of which is less risk-takers, less innovators, less venture capitalists, and most importantly less GDP growth and a diminished tax base.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Experts have opined for decades on the reasons behind the spectacular failure rates of strategy execution. There are many explanations for this abysmal failure rate, but a 10-year longitudinal study on executive leadership conducted by my firm showed one clear reason. Aligning the big picture with the day-to-day.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2016

billion people who live on less than $2 per day , shocks such as illness, crop failures, livestock deaths, farming-equipment breakdowns and even wedding or funeral expenses can be enough to tip them, their families, or even an entire community below the poverty line. Our findings are captured in a working paper which we summarize below.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Research shows that managers see far more leadership potential in their employees when their companies adopt a growth mindset — the belief that talent should be developed in everyone, not viewed as a fixed, innate gift that some have and others don’t. It began as a “moonshot” goal with significant risk of failure.

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Chad Barr

JANUARY 24, 2018

And you will make mistakes, because failure is God’s way of moving you in another direction. Last week I shared with you some of the profound insights I’ve learned from some of the brilliant thinkers I admire. Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us. We do not rejoice in victories.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Active senior management involvement delivers a clear message that change is good and that experimentation and even occasional failure is okay and encouraged. Gifting is expected to more than double in the coming year. Chapters report gifting and outcome data monthly to the parent organization.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2018

Take note of objects or items that have symbolic meaning in your life: gifts, awards, books — any items you’ve loved. Jeong Woo Kim/EyeEm/Getty Images. When I ask executives what their favorite speech is, Steve Jobs’s Stanford commencement address is always at the top of the list. Create a Story Catalog.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

I quickly went home and downloaded LOMS and found it was a complete gift (even though I paid for it, it was kind of a steal if you think about the value/compensation trajectory of working at McKinsey). I know you're fond of saying that many people who are successful have to face failure first. which I signed and returned yesterday.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

There is no shortage of advice for how to navigate power dynamics within organizations — from managing toxic or exceptionally gifted subordinates to dealing with unpredictable and narcissistic bosses. a sampling of these findings can be found here , here , here , and here ).

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

If management wants to encourage improvement then a policy which punishes failure may sound like a good idea. Learning may occur naturally, but management can enhance and harness the learning process by: Fostering a culture of learning. Directing effort to specific goals. Capturing and sharing learning internally. Commercialising good ideas.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2017

Was he a failure, though, as “depleted a fortune” and “lost $80 million” suggest? One day I complained to someone close to me, who gave me the gift of a question: “Then why don’t you quit your job and do what you want instead?” “Huntington Hartford, who inherited a fortune from the A. &

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Henman Performance Executive

JUNE 12, 2012

He promised, among other things, free beer, nicer Christmas gifts, Nutella in all army field rations, continuous green traffic lights, and the reclassification of people without a sense of humor as disabled. For details on Haugaard, see The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures by Stephen Pile. Therein lies the rub.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

Patagonia secures customer loyalty through its “Worn Wear” website, where environmentally-conscious consumers can purchase secondhand clothing at a discount and trade their own used duds for gift certificates. However it plays out, Amazon’s outreach exposed a digital divide in the consumer products world. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2018

Andrés Iniesta, one of the most gifted and successful soccer players of his generation, barefoot, alone, on the pitch of Camp Nou, the stadium of FC Barcelona — Barca, as the fans call it — after he had played his last game for the club. His work was done, now he could rest. So he took off his cleats and he sat down.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2017

Although the fall of Yahoo was probably inevitable, our fascination with celebrity leaders has resulted in an extraordinary amount of interest in Marissa Mayer’s recent resignation as CEO, in particular her $23 million golden parachute. As Steve Jobs once noted , it is always easier to connect the dots when you’re looking backwards.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 30, 2020

We're coming up on the end of the year and it's time to review what worked and didn't so we can come up with plans for 2021, right? If 2020 has taught us anything, we don't always have control over all the things we put into typical annual plans, complete with SMART goals and actionable strategies. That type of planning is OUT.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 30, 2020

We're coming up on the end of the year and it's time to review what worked and didn't so we can come up with plans for 2021, right? If 2020 has taught us anything, we don't always have control over all the things we put into typical annual plans, complete with SMART goals and actionable strategies. That type of planning is OUT.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2016

Members from cultures that place a high value on “face” and group harmony may be averse to confrontation because they assume it will descend into conflict and upsets group dynamics – in short, social failure. Paul Garbett FOR HBR. Unfortunately, this is rarely easy.

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Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2017

Small businesses like restaurants, which have an 80% failure rate in the first five years, are some of the most challenged in curbing inefficiency and meeting the rising expectations of tech-empowered customers. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide. Sponsored by DXC Technology. How the best companies get up to speed.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 20, 2015

Of all the widely believed but patently false economic beliefs is the absurd notion that falling consumer prices are bad for the economy and something must be done about them. The recent move in the Swiss franc puts a spotlight on the issue. For example, on Sunday, in Swiss Peg Removal: Did Anyone Win? I commented. Which of those is more important?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Failure, after all, is learning in disguise. beastfromeast/Getty Images. Sometimes a simple story is all it takes to capture complex issues, or so it seems. Take this one. A few years ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg lost a game of Scrabble to a friend’s teenage daughter. It went viral. Isn’t it?

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MishTalk

JULY 22, 2013

Dollar Collapse News on the Dollar's Death Spiral. Minyanville Business and Market News. Patrick Housing Crash News Top Housing and Commercial Real Estate News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. Abolish The Fed Sign the Petition. Psychology of Trading.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 30, 2015

Varoufakis was a gifted and popular university teacher in Sydney. Greece Will No Longer Deal with ‘Troika’ It now strongly appears as if Greece, Germany, and the nannycrats in Brussels are all on one hell of a collision course. Both sides have dug in, and the war of words has escalated in all corners. Beyond that, it is hard to blackmail us.”

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Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

On March 2, 2015, a line of people stretching around the block waited to get into the Rickshaw Stop on Fell Street in San Francisco. This was not like most nights at the funky music venue and bar; the people in line weren’t waiting to see an indie band, or dance to music spun by a DJ.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 9, 2019

I think it is reassuring for others to know that it IS possible to recover from a devastatingly poor performance -- and even more reassuring for people to realize that some degree of "failure" before ultimate success is not that unusual amongst those who end up at the top firms. I then put these frameworks to test during practice interviews.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JULY 27, 2012

History of Organization Development (Part 6 of 6) – “Can People Really Change? The Genius of Kurt Lewin” By Carter McNamara on July 27, 2012. Guest post from John Scherer, Co-Director of Scherer Leadership International. NOTE: What I have learned about Kurt Lewin I received from four main sources. Can people change? Kurt Lewin.

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Women in Consulting

DECEMBER 25, 2017

One day, you enter the office and realize that things are going awry. A once enthusiastic and proactive business analyst seems lax and shows up to work late. At regular meetings, you notice one of your best project managers sitting in the corner with their arms crossed, refusing to take part in the conversation in any way. Communication issues.

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