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Using the Right Performance Metrics: Watch out for P&Ls

Kates Kesler

We regularly work with CEO’s that are frustrated with leader behaviors that undermine enterprise strategy. Simple financial measures, like P&Ls, are an effective way to visibly drive leader accountability, yet they frequently do not match the complexity of today’s strategies.

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Embracing Healthy Tensions in a Matrixed Organization

Kates Kesler

As a company strategy becomes more dynamic and ambitious, leaders will often shift to a matrixed organization model to help the business excel at doing more than one thing simultaneously. long term vs short term investments, M&A activity, enterprise vs operating unit accountability). 1 Networked, Scaled, and Agile.

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Reasons for Today's Stress Pandemic (and Why High-Achieving Women Suffer the Most)

Consulting Matters

The physical strength of men was no longer needed to accomplish knowledge based work and so the bonafide job qualifications were leveled. Yet we are not there because we are still operating in corporate cultures that are aligned towards how man think and operate vs. how women are wired.

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Chief Ecosystem Officer – Taking Customer Centricity to the Next Level

Kates Kesler

Customer centricity is defined here as creating unique product value propositions and strategies to deliver against unmet customer needs. The company was structured around fully loaded product business units, each with its own Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, and Product Marketing. Jaclyn Kates.

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Have you designed your change and project management capabilities?

Kates Kesler

Where do we need leadership and management? . Local (business unit and operational function) teams have embedded practitioners that know the work of the unit and can build local relationships. . How should we organize project and change management practitioners? . Performance is managed b y local leader s. .

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Could Your Business Use an Advisory Board?

IMC USA

Do you need a fresh perspective to help expand your operations? Advisory boards focus on "big picture” issues--such as compensation, market strategy, and succession planning--rather than day-to-day operational difficulties. Like most business improvement strategies, advisory boards come with risks and challenges.

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Why We Shouldn’t Worry About the Declining Number of Public Companies

Harvard Business

All three factors have become more common over time, which we argue stems from firms’ increasing reliance on intangible and knowledge inputs in their business models. Emerging digital firms compete with knowledge, strategy, and expert human capital, attacking even the largest established firms.

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