Consulting Matters

APRIL 13, 2023

About the guest: About the guest: Brad Rex is an accomplished senior executive and corporate officer with proven experience growing businesses and driving results in start-up, turnaround, expansion and multi-site situations.

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Prudent Pedal

JANUARY 28, 2020

In the hope of helping you, your firm, and your marketing leader succeed, I have put together a cheat sheet called How to Evaluate Your Marketing Leader’s Performance. How to Evaluate Your Marketing Leader’s Performance – Productivity School of Marketing. What is Marketing? . What is Marketing’s Role in Your Firm? Be prudent.

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LSA Global

JULY 16, 2018

If you do not know how to deliver bad news as a manager, it is time you learn before it is too late. How to Deliver Bad News as a Manager. By following a few simple rules of advice from experienced leaders , however, you can learn how to deliver bad news as a manager as effectively and painlessly as possible.

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Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2017

Transformation and turnaround leader specialized in building teams, measurement systems, and driving results at distressed and growth companies alike, with a focus on the middle market. Translation: turnaround expert. What situations do you know how to address? Translation: change management for IT projects.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 1, 2018

She shares how most organizations capture and report data, but data is useless without analysis that leads to action. The Data Driven Leader shows you how to use this tremendous asset to lead your organization higher. To learn more about making better decisions, read How to Avoid Making Bad Decisions When Change Is Needed.

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The Consultants Peer Group

APRIL 3, 2023

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.” That’s how you develop your people. You have to know how to ask questions and what questions to ask.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

What she learned informed her strategy for the turnaround, which she then communicated through a series of town halls, roundtables, and memos. ” And she restored the company’s profitability — the turnaround was a success. “The response was overwhelming,” Mulcahy said. “Defection slowed to a trickle.

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Martinka Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2017

A transaction can be lost by a business buyer if a timely turnaround time on a letter of intent, preliminary due diligence, or an assessment of financing capability is not possible. The post Buying a Business in a Competitive Marketplace, how to Separate Yourself from the Pack? appeared first on Martinka Consulting.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The TV reality series Undercover Boss , in which the head of a business masquerades as a new employee, is one (extreme) example of how to learn what is really happening on the ground. But there are other, less dramatic techniques, too. They also can conduct town halls, where employees ask questions and engage in conversations.

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The Fearless Marketer

DECEMBER 7, 2020

But these programs or services can transform how an organization does things. They can help your clients do things faster and better, improve productivity and effectiveness, increase sales, shorten cycle times, turnaround cultures, etc., How to develop an HEOB program or service. But maybe not at such a high-level yet.).

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 10, 2018

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. He explained that he would often take the contrarian view: If the meeting was about raising the price for a service, he would show up and ask whether they should lower the price.

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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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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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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2017

You can be stronger at one of them, but you need to know how to manage both. Turnaround leaders pick up the pieces and make things right when a business or function is failing to perform. Every organization has a slightly different framework of expected experience, but I like to look at this through the lens of strategy and operations.

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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.?

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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. 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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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

It’s easy to be confused about how to grow in your career. You’ve not only been a great marketer in one region, but proven that you can lead marketing when you have a new team, in a turnaround situation and in a different geography. 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

Consider how they make money, do they follow an “operational improvement” model (a more strategic approach) or do they follow a “financial engineering” model (an investment banking approach). How to answer the case study. Here we will focus on the consulting type case studies.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

Now a global giant in the drinks business, just 25 years ago, its precursor, Brahma, was a second-tier Brazilian brewer undergoing a painful turnaround in the hands of acquirer 3G, a São Paulo–based private equity house. A key feature of the turnaround, led by CEO Marcel Telles, was avoiding a hopelessly long-term view.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

How to Win McKinsey's Digital Assessment Game. When you understand the skills being tested (critical thinking, decision-making, metacognition, situational awareness, and systems thinking), you can focus on how you’re performing in those areas and make more intentional choices. How to Play the McK Game.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

While I was researching my new book, How to Get a Meeting with Anyone , I asked the top 100 sales thought leaders in the world, “When you absolutely must reach someone who is very important but nearly impossible to reach, how do you do it? How to Design an Agenda for an Effective Meeting. You and Your Team Series.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 29, 2015

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. It’s rapid deadlines and very quick turnarounds. People who have been in consulting for longer have figured out how to do better during the work week.

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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.” How to Manage Resistance in Consulting — Part 1 of 3: What is Resistance? Read more.]. Recent Blog Posts.

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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! There is no deceptive decline, nor hidden strength. Everything is in plain sight.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Finally, you have constant client interaction which develops “client skills” – from managing client teams to running meetings to learning how to navigate different corporate environments. This expertise may be as broad as “operations turnaround” and as specific as “benchmarking for insurance companies.”

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Volvo’s turnaround over the last decade offers a great example. ” Volvo’s actions offer a textbook case in how to go outside the company to retool your workforce for a transformational initiative. 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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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. Buyers were still keen, placing bids worth five times that amount, according to the Treasury. Another slug of 12-month T-bills, also issued Tuesday, yields just 0.006%. Quite frankly, that''s idiotic.

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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

AUGUST 11, 2017

A company turnaround focuses on costs and can often be done through financial reengineering and cost cutting measures. LCPs can help architect a transformation by answering why transformation is required, what the transformation look like, how to make the transformation happen, and who to involve in it.

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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.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

Here are three things leaders can do to create a culture that is good at escaping the traps of the past: Create a collective narrative that helps people understand why shedding the past (Box 2) is part of doing business and how to do it. They volunteer their time and energy in communities where GE has plants and offices.

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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 his own words: “ Where’s the fun in taking over a successful company. All you can do is hope not to screw it up.”. ” A stint on the U.K.

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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. PE firms need CEOs who know how to use empathy to generate a highly positive sense of urgency, thereby generating greater momentum toward strategic and financial goals.

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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.

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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 people Adrian was leading now knew much more about their functions than he did, and he didn’t feel confident in his ability to discern their strengths and weaknesses.

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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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