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. To be sure, there is some up front training, but the emphasis is on starting the lean journey with kaizen events.

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Turnaround Fashion Training Training 100

The Fearless Marketer

DECEMBER 7, 2020

What you do instead is educate your prospective clients about your consulting methodology, coaching approach, or training process that they need to understand and implement to get the results they are looking for (mostly in their businesses). But these programs or services can transform how an organization does things. None of that.

Turnaround 62

Turnaround Methodologies Sales Marketing 62

Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Everyone – from C-suite leaders and IT to SMEs, service techs, and sales reps must learn how to activate and operationalize their data. Do employees understand how to combine insights from different sources to generate more accurate predictions, model scenarios, find unexpected correlations, etc.? The bottom line? Retain talent?

Agile 52

Agile Tools Data Talent 52

Jerry Fletcher

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Not long after that I was trying to convince the man who has now been a client for a decade that moving from doing turnarounds as a CEO or COO to Leadership and Management Consulting was significantly different and that he did not have a team in place to handle the shift. Teams can trump persuasion. Nobody can do it all alone.

Marketing 52

Marketing Consulting Software Turnaround 52

Consulting and Organizational Management

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Instead, I’ve been more successful with, e.g., ”turnaround specialist” or “business developer.” How to Manage Resistance in Consulting — Part 1 of 3: What is Resistance? Training and Development. Read more.]. Read more.]. Recent Blog Posts. Marketing and Social Media. Project Management.

Consulting 76

Consulting Organizational Development Nonprofit Small Business 76

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

FTI expanded into investigation and research capabilities as well as turnaround, restructuring, bankruptcy and forensic accounting with the moves. Restructuring/Turnaround Services. Honored with Seven M&A Advisor Turnaround Awards. Honored by Finance Monthly as Turnaround & Restructuring Firm of the Year, Singapore.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Managers rarely yell, coworkers try to help each other out whenever possible, and companies are organized to provide consultants support with training, expertise, etc. Call me biased, but I received the best years of business training possible in my time at McKinsey. This attitude permeates all interactions. 3 SKILL DEVELOPMENT.

Banking 272

Banking Boston Consulting Group Consulting Management 272

Management Consulted

MARCH 29, 2015

How was settling in at McKinsey for you? I really didn’t know what to expect on my first day, even after I went through the on-boarding and training process. How long did it take before you started to feel settled in? How to get pages made, how to get research done, how much I was producing a day, etc.

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McKinsey Interviews Case Interview Consulting 100

Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Volvo’s turnaround over the last decade offers a great example. Training was also essential: Jacoby and Sällström implemented a range of initiatives designed to shift the staff into a more entrepreneurial mindset, and each of the 300 key leaders was given a personal coach.

Talent 28

Talent Engineering Case Interview Turnaround 28

Confessions of a Consultant

APRIL 30, 2017

It offered a ‘turnaround’ challenge. The dilemma: how to make an entrance which communicated I’ve arrived while at the same time ensuring he don’t upstage the existing players. In what Meyer described as a ‘get on the train’ philosophy, he decided to support the ‘Bear’ commercial.

Management 40

Management Pharmaceuticals Groups Turnaround 40

Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

How are those organizations better because of you? How to Get the Most Out of an Informational Interview. You’ll show how you’d improve their organizations, based on what you’ve done in the past. Let’s look at how to do this by analyzing the resume and LinkedIn profile of a startup marketing executive.

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Resumes Interviews Cover Letters Recruiting 28

Harvard Business

JULY 9, 2018

One CEO we worked with was known for his smart turnarounds of a large media company. However, as adept as he was at the technical aspects of his job, he now had 20 people reporting to him whom he had no idea how to manage. Before any coaching can be effective, they need to wake up to the ways their actions affect others.

Development 48

Development Turnaround Company Resources 48

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

They must deliver on tight timelines, quick turnarounds and short project cycles. But what surprised us was that few of them had ever been trained or coached on how to deal with them. Relentless pressure: There are no breaks, pauses or downtime. Tech employees work long days and during weekends and holidays.

Talent 28

Talent Culture Turnaround Interviews 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The job becomes far more complex, requiring a deep understanding of how to make the parts of the organization function together. However, Hayek didn’t push training on them. Running a smaller, entrepreneurial firm is very different from scaling that same company for rapid growth. The CEO that PE firm Founders Equity Inc.

Company 28

Company Engineering Turnaround System 28

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. But too often, companies cut a few sales jobs and hope for a market turnaround that never happens.

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Sales How To Turnaround Trends 29

The Crazy Lives of Consultants

JANUARY 29, 2010

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Consulting 40

Consulting Airlines Hotels Sales 40

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

I’ll fast-forward through the next decade, when Garvin, trained in operations, helped to answer the question much of America was obsessed with at the time: How Japanese automakers could make higher-quality, more-reliable cars than Americans, while charging less for them.

Management 30

Management Turnaround Engineering Benchmarking 30

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The quickest way to spring the short-term trap is to set overly ambitious targets — the kind that make the CEO a hero with investors in the short term, but threaten the long-term plan by, for instance, skimping on scheduled maintenance, cutting R&D investment, and shrinking travel and training budgets.

Metrics 30

Metrics Study Financial Operations 30

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround. On July 30, 2014, exactly 13 months after retiring as P&G’s Chairman and CEO, McDonald was sworn in as the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

Culture 28

Culture Leadership Resources Healthcare 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2016

.” Focusing this type of mindset shift and behavior change must move beyond a core group of leaders and instead elevate the full leadership cadre around the prominence of digital and its relevance and meaning for how leaders lead. Beyond-the-Classroom Experiences. In his own words, “it was a truly formative experience.”

Development 28

Development Leadership Talent Agile 28