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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Compelling evidence indicates that leadership moderates company performance and results. But, maybe you feel the importance of effective leadership is often overstated and are somewhat skeptical of the real impact leadership has on a business. Great leaders achieve great results and create great company cultures.

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Align sales and marketing to gain customers, drive growth

1 to 1

Marketing and sales teams have traditionally had two separate objectives in most organizations: the marketing team works to get leads and fill the top of the funnel, while the sales team focuses on the bottom of the funnel and closing those leads. It all begins with leadership. The right people matter.

Sales 26
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The 3 Pillars of an Effective Data Management Strategy: Monitoring, Tracking, and Reporting

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

This requires effective communication and collaboration across all levels of the organization, from your senior leadership team to front-line workers. To make tracking progress effective, it's important to set SMART goals with specific metrics and targets that can be accurately tracked in software.

Report 98
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Top Power Skills Every Organizational Consultant Needs

Consulting Matters

One thing I have learned over my almost 30-plus years of consulting – while there are executive unicorns who will share your idealistic visions of a balanced approach to leadership, like Mark Johnson (in episode 42) or former Disney COO Jim MacPhee (in episode 40), the majority won't. The people strategy is about the WHO.

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business

They have to decide where to adopt agile principles and mindsets, where to use agile problem-solving methodologies to dynamically address strategic and organizational challenges, and where to more formally deploy the full agile model, including self-managed teams. Senior leadership teams that embrace agile do a few things differently.

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies, 2016

Harvard Business

Methodology. This year’s index builds on the methodology of last year’s. We break down empathy into categories: ethics, leadership, company culture, brand perception, and public messaging through social media. This year we added a carbon metric.

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Positioning Yourself As The Expert — How To Develop A Consulting Voice That Clients Will Listen To with Ron Carucci: Podcast #21

Consulting Success

Ron and his partners at Navalent help companies that are in pursuit of a substantial transformational change, whether it be strategic formulation, organizational design, cultural shifts, or executive leadership behaviors. What kind of metric do you use to measure that in terms of compensation based on great client work?