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Leadership Tip #13: For Innovation, Remove at Least One Policy or Procedure a Week

Johanna Rothman

Some managers wanted to prevent Bad Things from happening in the organization, so they added policies or procedures. Now, these same managers want business agility. Worse, sometimes, managers add more policies and procedures. I saw that in an organization that had management signoff for changes the technical people made.

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Three Possibilities to Move from Power Over to Power With

Johanna Rothman

The Acme Corp senior leadership team is thrilled that they can bring people back to the office. The directors asked, “What do we do about the people who travel? The directors asked, “What do we do about the people who travel? Are they supposed to wait and travel on Monday night or Tuesday? Face-palm.).

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Conversation with North Highland

Tom Spencer

Founded in 1992, North Highland is an employee-owned global management consulting firm that has been named as a Best Firm to Work For every year since 2007 by Consulting Magazine. This will be of particular interest for students and recent graduates who are looking to pursue a career in the management consulting industry.

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Senior Executives Get More Sleep Than Everyone Else

Harvard Business

Either senior executives, with the help of assistants and hard-working middle managers, do less and take more time for sleep. Leadership & Managing People Book. Of course, with intense travel and work commitments, sometimes this is compromised, and when that happens, it comes with a cost. Further Reading.

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Applying to McKinsey from a Non-Target School

CaseInterview.com

Using your frameworks and guidelines, I was able to recently secure offers from Oliver Wyman and McKinsey (I accepted the McKinsey offer). Before my interviews with both firms, I actually got rejected from non- management consulting jobs (even though they were both less prestigious firms and would have been backups for me).