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Want a Data-Driven Organization? Start with Your Talent Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

But, unlocking the full potential of what is possible requires a talent strategy tightly aligned with your company's data analytics strategy. To avoid falling behind and making costly mistakes, here are two essential talent strategy steps you need to take now. The table below shows the expected employee skills from 2015 to 2030.

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We REALLY Need to Stop Talking About Lean

Markovitz Consulting

They think it’s yet another short-term management fad. But when you look at many of the tools and concepts from the lean playbook, they’re really just good management that any leader would want to embrace. The Wall Street Journal recently wrote about Larry Culp’s efforts to turn around faltering General Electric.

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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

While working with a large Forbes Top 25 Private Company, we quantified the value of leadership using internal key business metrics and various cognitive and behavioral leader assessments. Journal of Management, 14(3), 453-464. Journal of Management Research, 1(4), 254. Collins, J. HarperBusiness. Dhar, U., &

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It’s Time to Make Business School Research More Relevant

Harvard Business

One of the biggest challenges facing management scientists has been the struggle to produce knowledge that is both academically rigorous and applicable to practicing managers. In an Academy of Management Journal editorial, we described two problems that contribute to this challenge. spiderstock/Getty Images.

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Financial Shenanigans Versus Incompetence

Martinka Consulting

The Wall Street Journal and others recently reported about an accounting expert who had predicted the Madoff Ponzi scheme and recently went after GE for what he said are their deceptive accounting practices (of course, GE responded this person didn’t know what he was talking about).

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7 Data-Driven Characteristics of Teams that make Better Decisions

Organizational Talent Consulting

A good working definition of what it means to embrace data-driven decision-making is: Using facts extracted from data and metrics to guide business decisions that support business goals rather than relying on experience, intuition, and stories alone. Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Upadhyay & Kumar. Organization design.

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The Top 6 Post Workshop Learning Best Practices

LSA Global

While all those steps are important, the most impactful step from the training strategy is missing — post workshop learning and reinforcement. Train Managers on How to Coach to the New Behaviors Training participants who receive frequent and consistent coaching on the new desired behaviors outperform their peers 4-to-1.