Makarios Consulting

JULY 21, 2022

In this five-part series, we will be looking at “Great Leadership from the Inside Out” … because what is within you as a leader determines what comes out of your leadership. In The Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), this truth is encapsulated in the Clarity Break. You want your team to be moving forward.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JANUARY 2, 2023

You might be entirely on board and curious about how work and leadership will be different in the future. No leader sets out to become obsolete, and developing leadership habits is a competitive advantage. Why develop future-proof leadership skills? Well-equipped leadership makes a difference.

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Makarios Consulting

APRIL 20, 2022

Leadership is a lot like a ropes course – you are confronted with challenge after challenge, each one testing your skills and giving you an opportunity for personal development and team growth. In this series, we are looking at elements of “The Leadership Ropes Course” that all leaders need to face – and master!

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Makarios Consulting

APRIL 20, 2022

Leadership is a lot like a ropes course – you are confronted with challenge after challenge, each one testing your skills and giving you an opportunity for personal development and team growth. In this series, we are looking at elements of “The Leadership Ropes Course” that all leaders need to face – and master!

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LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2023

The CEO’s Best Tool for Success – A High Performing Leadership Team To thrive, organizations must be agile enough to meet everchanging market conditions. A CEO’s best tool for success is a high performing leadership team. The speed and scope of change can be daunting. A stagnant executive team is a less effective executive team.

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 25, 2024

Strong manager-employee relationships through great leadership leads to positive outcomes After hearing so many people talking about the Apple TV show Ted Lasso and using it in the context of business leadership, I had to see what caused all the buzz. The show has captured my attention and a little of my heart.

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Makarios Consulting

JULY 21, 2022

In this five-part series, we will be looking at “Great Leadership from the Inside Out” … because what is within you as a leader determines what comes out of your leadership. In The Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), this truth is encapsulated in the Clarity Break. You want your team to be moving forward.

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Consulting Matters

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

When clients choose fast band-aids, it hurts their leadership brand and reputation. The Surrogate Leadership Trap. The surrogate leadership trap is when you tell a client what they should do and set up your client to your direct report. In turn, they often, Invest in potentially expensive band-aids.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 17, 2020

Understands how the culture and power networks operate within the client system. Helps clients anticipate the Customer/Client, Employee, and Financial/Operational impact of business decisions. Recognizes and understands organizations as dynamic, political, economic, and social systems which have multiple goals.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

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. A good doctor knows human anatomy.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Managing change successfully is all about leadership change mindsets. They were still operating on the mindset that their job was to give customers what they want. Then change leaders can work toward changing the incentives, processes, structures, and systems that provide the context for the desired behaviors and mindsets.

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Business Consulting Agency

MARCH 21, 2024

As competition intensifies and customer expectations evolve, warehouse service companies seek strategies to increase clientele sales, optimize operations, and drive business growth. Working with business experts empowers warehouse service companies to innovate, optimize operations, drive sales growth, and deliver exceptional value to clients.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Medicine involves leadership. Nearly all physicians take on significant leadership responsibilities over the course of their career, but unlike any other occupation where management skills are important, physicians are neither taught how to lead nor are they typically rewarded for good leadership. STOCK4B-RF/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. PM Images/Getty Images.

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PM Alliance

MAY 12, 2023

And because most system implementations are more than just IT projects, bringing numerous operational considerations and workflow changes as part of the equation, project teams sometimes struggle to bring a diverse group of stakeholders into alignment.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Leadership and Management Development Matters According to recent research by McKinsey and the Corporate Executive Board, more than 500 executives ranked leadership development among the top three human capital priorities, and two thirds of leaders rated developing effective leaders as their top concern.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

In this article, I’d like to share the insights we’ve gleaned from the model’s first full year of operation, which hopefully organizations in health care and many other industries will find useful. Interestingly, despite the number of huddles, the number of action items has never overwhelmed the system.

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Makarios Consulting

MARCH 2, 2023

Our experience has shown time and again that when a leadership team lacks trust and respect, meetings do little more than exacerbate existing tensions and conflicts. Several years ago, trust and respect were not the signature characteristics of the leadership team. Systematically tackling both people issues and operational issues.

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Rick Conlow

MAY 31, 2023

Our assessment identified a silo mentality throughout the organization and minimal leadership development or training. We addressed the issues with new communication channels, customer service and quality initiatives, on-going quality leadership training for all leaders (executives, too), and team development applications.

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Successful Independent Consulting

APRIL 27, 2022

By definition, we stand outside of the system we analyze, troubleshoot, or design. Consultants are senior-level people, well-versed in the art and science of the domain in which we consult, be that change leadership or system architecture. By contrast, professional independent consultants operate as microbusinesses.

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Clarity Consultants

APRIL 27, 2024

Over three decades of leadership at a premier Learning & Development (L&D) consulting firm have not only provided me with a wealth of experience but also a clear understanding of the transformative power that targeted, expert-driven training holds, especially for Fortune 500 companies.

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Business Consulting Agency

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Consultants facilitate the seamless integration of e-commerce platforms, enabling entrepreneurs to leverage user-friendly interfaces, secure payment gateways, and robust inventory management systems to optimize online business operations.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Great leaders dream of a better future – from business sustainability to growing future leaders, increasing speed to market, or operating with greater purpose. Unfortunately, many organizations keep strategic plans a secret and don't involve leaders outside the executive leadership team.

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Business Consulting Agency

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Operational Efficiency Streamlining operations is key to reducing costs and improving efficiency. Consultants help medium-sized companies identify and implement technology solutions that enhance operations, such as CRM systems, data analytics tools, and e-commerce platforms.

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Markovitz Consulting

MARCH 12, 2019

John Shook and others have written extensively about how lean is a socio-technical system, not just a collection of tools. But try getting a plant manager, or the leadership team of a company, to commit the necessary time and attention when they see lean as simply another training and development offering of the HR department.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

As an organization development consultant, I played a key role in aligning the senior executive team around how service was delivered on the front lines, what needed to happen to establish Disney's Animal Kingdom as a must-see park, and how the creative and operational teams partnered together. That also tells you what isn't for you.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 23, 2018

This type of top-down leadership is outdated, and, more importantly, counterproductive. Humility and servant leadership do not imply that leaders have low self-esteem, or take on an attitude of servility. Customer satisfaction increased by 54 percent during the two-year period of Jungkiu’s humble leadership. Adapted from.

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Markovitz Consulting

JANUARY 7, 2019

But when it comes to internal operations at least, disruption is often both bad for business and for employees, because it causes unevenness in work. Taiichi Ohno, one of the fathers of the Toyota production system, described three manufacturing evils that companies should avoid: mura (unevenness), muri (overburden), and muda (waste).

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

At Geisinger, a healthcare system serving more than 1.5 For example, in 2012 we launched a controlled-substance monitoring dashboard to better understand use of controlled substances in our system, with a focus on improving pain management. The devastating opioid epidemic in the U.S. Data-driven assessment.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2017

The main reason they can harm companies to such a staggering degree is that today’s cybersecurity systems use centralized monitoring, with little beyond their main firewalls to protect the rest of an organization. Today’s cybersecurity systems have been built to detect previously identified malicious codes and malware.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

When I was working at Disney, I worked on projects like the Imagineers and the operators and getting them to work together and a strategic partnering project. What you want to do is be the person who owns the process and you're outside the system. Are you the surrogate leadership trap or the pair of hands trap? This is me.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

When I was working at Disney, I worked on projects like the Imagineers and the operators and getting them to work together and a strategic partnering project. What you want to do is be the person who owns the process and you're outside the system. Are you the surrogate leadership trap or the pair of hands trap? This is me.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Managing Boundaries in Systems By Jim Smith on September 28, 2010. Organization Development is all about change in work systems. Everybody talks about systems but what does that mean? General Systems Theory is an organizational theory. Look around and you will see “systems” everywhere. Guest Writer Submissions.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 26, 2023

Rather than addressing the operational angle of how to do it, we address the bigger question of what to do. This may involve traveling to the client’s site to collect data, interview employees, and examine daily operations. These consultants often have the opportunity to rise through the ranks and take on key leadership roles.

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LSA Global

JUNE 19, 2019

Do You Know How to Conduct Effective Leadership Team Meetings? While most work meetings are considered a waste of valuable time and energy, your ability to conduct effective leadership team meetings is essential to moving a team forward and carving out time for strategic, complex, systemic, and cross-team issues.

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Makarios Consulting

AUGUST 2, 2023

But what about daily operations? The Entrepreneurial Operating System ® (EOS®) describes an Integrator as someone who excels at making decisions about and managing the day-to-day organizational and operational matters necessary to achieve optimal performance and outcomes for the business. So far, so good.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Only operating in the short term or taking too much risk and gambling on one specific future are frequent traps leaders fall into when facing economic uncertainty. The most threatening competitor leadership teams face is themself." created, retained, and applied through established systems and processes.

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