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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

In addition to increased productivity of expected behavior, leadership impacts a follower's discretionary effort, also known as organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Executive leadership and organizational performance: Suggestions for a new theory and methodology. Journal of Management, 14(3), 453-464. Collins, J.

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Subscription Businesses Are Booming. Here’s How to Value Them

Harvard Business

Previously dominated by the likes of newspapers, magazines, gyms, utilities, and telecommunications firms, more products and services are being offered to more people through subscriptions than ever before. Philippe Marion/Getty Images. The subscription business model is booming.

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Is Gathering Real Time "Inflation" Data With Smart Phones a "Game Changer"?

MishTalk

Premise Data Corp, a startup firm backed by Google, has deployed 700 smartphone-equipped workers across 25 cities to capture images of products as their prices change daily. The Wall Street Journal claims Real-Time Economic Data Could Be a Game Changer. Fatal Flaws in Inflation Tracking Methodology. Hal Varian, Google Inc.''s

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Consulting Sales Systems That Work for Introverts with Bob Burg: Podcast #16

Consulting Success

He enjoyed the job but wasn’t very good at it simply because he wasn’t interested in journalism. Without a passion for journalism, he knew he needed to make a career change and graduated into sales. He started out as a sports broadcaster for a local radio station, then landed a spot as a TV news broadcaster.

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Consultant Ninja: Friedman Billings Ramsey and Tom Peters.

Consultant Ninja

The longer I am in business, the more allergic I am becoming to business gurus and journals (Tom Peters, Gary Hamel, HBR, McK Quarterly, etc). He attributes FBRs previous success to a unique methodology. Productivity. (6). Anyways, back in 2005, Tom Peters loved FBR. I guess they werent so different after all. The ANALyst.

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ZS Associates Firm Profile

Management Consulted

In the 90s, ZS evolved by developing a new sales force effectiveness and productivity framework, data warehouses for clients, as well as a range of analytical services, data-handling capabilities, and rigorous analytics to the marketing research function. Medical Products and Services. Industrial Products & Services.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Then it wasn’t.