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New Leadership for the Twenty-first Century

Tom Spencer

These changes have been accompanied by a shift in business’s approach to management. Understanding the rapidly changing business environment will be essential to ensure efficient and effective leadership going forwards. As a result, inspiring and motivating employees now has a much greater role to play for managers.

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Management Consulting

CaseInterview.com

Management consulting is an industry that offers assistance with this kind of high-level decision-making and problem-solving. Management Consultants help businesses make strategic decisions that directly impact the entire company. What is Management Consulting A lot of people ask me, “What is management consulting exactly?”It’s

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Leadership Tip #11: Substitute the Word Trust for Empower

Johanna Rothman

However, every manager's micromanagement pervades all levels. Management—not the teams—often chose a Scrum board with three columns. Why do managers persist in demanding teams use a “standard” board, or use “standard” metrics, such as velocity? Managers don't trust the teams to do their work.

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Leadership Tip #13: For Innovation, Remove at Least One Policy or Procedure a Week

Johanna Rothman

Some managers wanted to prevent Bad Things from happening in the organization, so they added policies or procedures. Now, these same managers want business agility. Worse, sometimes, managers add more policies and procedures. I saw that in an organization that had management signoff for changes the technical people made.

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The Emerging Spend Management Sector: Simplifying Your Accounting Processes

Speaker: Spencer Falbo, Principal at Kong Basile Consulting

For a long time, the market has offered point solutions for accounts payable, such as bill payment, expense management, travel software, and corporate cards. A Spend Management Software that consolidates all expenditures onto a single platform and automates many of the workflows associated with spending company funds.

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Technical Women Are Software Managers

Johanna Rothman

One of my reviewers for the Modern Management Made Easy books asked a fascinating question: I've never seen this many women in management or in senior leadership positions. I started to travel internationally as a consultant in the late 1990s. And, the managers? Management Is About People.

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What is Consulting? Is Management Consulting a Good Fit for You?

Tom Spencer

The job of consulting can vary from company to company and from leadership to leadership; that’s also one of the most desirable aspects of the job because there is so much ambiguity this allows you to grow within your role. An example of some issues consultants focus on would be mergers, acquisitions and managing company strategy.