Prudent Pedal

JANUARY 28, 2020

If you’re a managing partner, practice leader, sales leader, or chief administrative officer in a professional services firm, you probably have responsibility for “managing” marketing. If this is you, you may be feeling a little uneasy as we approach that dreaded time of the year for most managers—annual reviews.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Bankers do some for roadshows, due diligence, etc but spend 90% of their time in one office until you’re partner-level (this is investment banking; you can expect more travel in private equity and investment management). Relationship with coworkers, managers, and firm. This is less discussed but equally important.

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Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2017

My company represents self-employed professionals across the country, and over the last seven years I have interviewed, coached, or worked with more than 200 independent management consultants. Translation: change management for IT projects. Translation: turnaround expert. What situations do you know how to address?

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The Consultants Peer Group

APRIL 3, 2023

It doesn’t matter if the employer is the CEO, a manager, or a supervisor. One of the main lessons he taught me was about how to negotiate the timeline of a task or project so that both the employer and the employee are held accountable. Good leaders know how to listen and listen “until it hurts.” …The Courage of Knowing When.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 10, 2018

In my recent study of 5,000 managers and employees, published in my recent book , I found that the best performers are really good at generating rigorous discussions in team meetings. When I was teaching the American Express turnaround case at HBS, Harvey Golub, then the company’s CEO, came to class. Take the contrarian view.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

In a PWC survey of more than 2,000 global executives, managers, and employees, only 54% of respondents said their change initiatives succeeded — and the most frequently cited problem (by 65% of those surveyed) was change fatigue. ” And she restored the company’s profitability — the turnaround was a success.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Many pro services firms still use fragmented systems or analog methods like spreadsheets to manage projects. It prevents you from generating reliable cash-flow forecasts and makes it incredibly difficult to manage resources. This leads to poor visibility, inefficient processes, and, worst of all, inaccurate data.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

All senior leaders are surrounded by physical or virtual trappings of office — the formal decor, the board dinners, the financial reports, the assistants that manage travel and scheduling, the intensive calendar that leaves little time for reflection. This forced them to go meet these customers and hear how they felt about the company.

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Markovitz Consulting

JULY 11, 2017

He describes his “shock and awe” approach (my terminology) in his excellent book The Lean Turnaround , where he takes the company through several week-long kaizen events. Rather than focusing on kaizen events, he asks each employee to figure out how to do their job just two seconds faster.

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Confessions of a Consultant

APRIL 30, 2017

The same basic point applies to new managers joining an organization. New Managers: Almost all New Managers suffer from ‘joining anxiety’ and want to do things quickly. It offered a ‘turnaround’ challenge. But if the pace speeded up to, say, 7.5 minutes or slowed to 9 minutes a mile, I flagged and had to quit.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2017

The career question I hear most often from rising senior leaders is this: “How do I get on the C-suite shortlist?” ” The management literature is overflowing with advice on becoming the boss. With transparency in succession planning becoming a priority, career management for senior executives becomes easier.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

FTI expanded into investigation and research capabilities as well as turnaround, restructuring, bankruptcy and forensic accounting with the moves. Records management. Either a Global Practice Leader, Co-leader, Senior Managing Director or Global CEO lead each of these practices. Restructuring/Turnaround Services.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 5, 2016

To understand how to turn around a failing school quickly, using as few resources as possible, we studied changes made by 160 UK academies after they were put into remedial measures by the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (OFSTED) up to seven years ago. Our findings challenge some of these beliefs.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 29, 2015

I majored in accounting, finance and supply chain management at a college in the state (Miami of Ohio). I was going down the route of finance, asset management, investment banking, or something like that. I started researching management consulting online, and it really seemed up my alley. My manager stepped in for me.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

It’s easy to be confused about how to grow in your career. From a business strategist who can appear aloof and dismissive of those with less intellectual horsepower, to a general manager who aligns and inspires her region through personal connections and demonstrates genuine care for people. franckreporter/Getty Images.

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ConsultX

AUGUST 10, 2021

Gerber Focus - Al Ries How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - Robert B Cialdini Outwitting the Devil - Napoleon Hill Purple Cow - Seth Godin The E-Myth Revisited - Michael E. Conquer the Chaos shows you how. Conquer the Chaos - Clate Mask & Scott Martineau Crush It!

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freshminds

MARCH 5, 2018

Different industries need to test different skills and therefore depending on whether you’re applying to management consultancies, strategy consultancies or investment banking, your case study will be slightly different. How to answer the case study. Associate Candidate Manager. Mike Okeowo.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Instead, I’ve been more successful with, e.g., ”turnaround specialist” or “business developer.” ” Assessments should use the pareto principle, i.e., focus on some “best practices” in each of the major management functions. Career Management. Crisis Management. Read more.].

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

While the world of quarterly reports is the preserve of managers, the long term is the fiefdom of leaders. As managers deal with delivering short-term results to keep the stock price high and leaders evangelize on the long-term future of the organization, the medium term is all but forgotten. It is pleasingly limitless.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Gains in production, however, would have to extend through year-end to turnaround what has been a weak, export-hit year for the manufacturing sector. How to Uncover Hidden Economic Weakness! How to Uncover the Hidden Consumer Strength! For discussion on hidden strengths and hidden weaknesses, please see.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

McKinsey’s digital assessment game Solve is a video game in which candidates problem-solve to manage some form of ecological situation. Time management is certainly a factor. However, McKinsey is more focused on your critical thinking skills and what you display during that time rather than how quickly you can complete each task.

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MishTalk

APRIL 7, 2015

This is quite a turnaround for Spain. As long as the kid understands the question, I assure you he will know how to answer. Mike "Mish" Shedlock [link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. In June 2012, it sold similar short-term debt yielding 3.237%.

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Harvard Business

JULY 9, 2018

But while executive coaches have improved the performance of many already-good managers and sanded the rough edges off many less effective ones, they aren’t a miracle cure. So how do those who control the coaching purse strings — HR, talent managers, and other buyers — avoid throwing money away on uncoachable executives?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2017

As LCPs have proven their ability to transform the talent practices of the PE firm to the fund’s managing partners, they’re then tasked with doing the same for portfolio companies. A company turnaround focuses on costs and can often be done through financial reengineering and cost cutting measures.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Volvo’s turnaround over the last decade offers a great example. For example, its members asked why every design change in a car required a dozen signatures and managed to cut that number in half. Volvo offers a road map of how to pull it off. For years, Volvo was a brand stuck between a rock and a hard place.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

You accept your first job as a manager in a fast growth tech company, thinking: “How much different could this be from my former company—a financial services firm? Management is management, right?” How talent management is changing. A tenure of two years makes you an “old-timer.”

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Asamby Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2022

This articles outlines how to build a company wiki: Understand if and why you need a wiki Define the goals for your wiki Choose the best tool to house your wiki Define the structure Start creating and compiling content Keep your wiki used and up to date Why do I need a wiki for my company? You need a wiki.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

I found that the companies that survive and thrive are good at aligning their organizations around three critical but competing activities : Box 1: Manage the present at peak efficiency and profitability. On the first day of his new job as CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella sent a powerful message to his employees.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co. The job becomes far more complex, requiring a deep understanding of how to make the parts of the organization function together. He was very smart and polished but didn’t see how his pointed words and micromanaging ways were affecting his management team.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

How to Get the Most Out of an Informational Interview. Hiring managers will see what you have done — and can do for them. You’ll show how you’d improve their organizations, based on what you’ve done in the past. Then add the more detailed bullet points to fill in those stories. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2016

The scope and complexity of the problems at the unit leader level made him uncertain how to allocate his time and he got overloaded. The study also looked at relative levels of support for executives vs. more junior managers. Why dangerous? The next step is to assess transition risk and provide support accordingly.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

The idea of boomerang employees — workers who voluntarily leave a job at an organization and then rejoin that same organization at a later date — is gaining more and more acceptance from hiring managers and in the labor force. If you’re one of these employees, how should you handle your comeback? Here are some ideas.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Throughout the study’s assessments of female CEOs, a combination of four traits and competencies emerged as key to their success: courage, risk-taking, resilience, and managing ambiguity. “It wasn’t until that conversation,” one woman recalled, “that I even imagined anything past manager, forget CEO.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2018

Here is how to avoid five of the most critical sales force downsizing errors. Companies eliminate too many jobs when they let cost savings, not revenues, dictate how many salespeople to cut. Gradual sales job reduction can be effective when the need to make cuts is not urgent and the process is well-managed.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

Organizations waste too much time - see how Bain helps them manage it like money in this 10-minute video slide deck. While the former approach is friendlier from a change management perspective, we usually find that it leads to only incremental change. Consider the remarkable turnaround at Ford. Related Video.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 7, 2016

How to Improve Your Business Writing. That means that if you’re in a job where you manage people remotely — and find yourself regularly required to deliver feedback or criticism via email — you’ll want to take special care with your wording to keep your team engaged and motivated. Business Writing. Josh Bernoff.

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2016

Doug identified “Inspiring Trust” as his number one mission in his 10-year turnaround of Campbell Soup Company, where his efforts resulted in cumulative shareholder returns in the top tier of the global food industry, and among the highest measured employee engagement levels in the Fortune 500, particularly with his leadership team.

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