Harvard Business

JANUARY 10, 2018

The modern workplace is awash in meetings, many of which are terrible. As a result, people mostly hate going to meetings. The problem is this: The whole point of meetings is to have discussions that you can’t have any other way. And yet most meetings are devoid of real debate.

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Kates Kesler

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Recently, The Wall Street Journal reported on how Procter & Gamble’s CEO is under scrutiny by investors and the board for a stalling turnaround effort. P&G’s Stumbles Put CEO On Hot Seat for Turnaround. At this meeting, seven to 10 executives met to discuss the state of the company and make decisions.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Bankers do some for roadshows, due diligence, etc but spend 90% of their time in one office until you’re partner-level (this is investment banking; you can expect more travel in private equity and investment management). Relationship with coworkers, managers, and firm. This is less discussed but equally important.

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The Management Centre

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Throughout our Project Management training programmes, we find out about the kinds of challenges that make for a worried Project Manager. As a first step book in a meeting with your Project Sponsor. During scoping ensure there is clarity on the roles of Project Manager and Project Sponsor. But fear not, you are not alone.

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The Consultants Peer Group

APRIL 3, 2023

It doesn’t matter if the employer is the CEO, a manager, or a supervisor. In 1973, I was fired from my first job mainly for not being able to meet deadlines in a timely fashion. This negotiation process helps both parties meet their needs and gives the employee ownership of their time. It’s also knowing when to stay silent.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Many pro services firms still use fragmented systems or analog methods like spreadsheets to manage projects. It prevents you from generating reliable cash-flow forecasts and makes it incredibly difficult to manage resources. Milestone tracking helps ensure that projects meet critical objectives and deadlines.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 23, 2018

This may include discrete projects completed at arms length, such as due diligence on a transaction, or turnaround projects where consultants are embedded within an organisation. Finally, senior management may hire consultants as an independent second pair of eyes, to help justify critical decisions and strategic choices.

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Prudent Pedal

JANUARY 28, 2020

If you’re a managing partner, practice leader, sales leader, or chief administrative officer in a professional services firm, you probably have responsibility for “managing” marketing. If this is you, you may be feeling a little uneasy as we approach that dreaded time of the year for most managers—annual reviews.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2018

When promoted to his new role, he inherited a group of district sales managers responsible for selling to hospital systems in their respective geographies. Although his one-on-one meetings with these reports, which involved progress reviews, motivation, and coaching, were highly productive, his monthly team meetings weren’t.

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Confessions of a Consultant

APRIL 30, 2017

The same basic point applies to new managers joining an organization. New Managers: Almost all New Managers suffer from ‘joining anxiety’ and want to do things quickly. It offered a ‘turnaround’ challenge. It marked a crucial turning point and the meeting became much more up-beat, positive and optimistic.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

FTI expanded into investigation and research capabilities as well as turnaround, restructuring, bankruptcy and forensic accounting with the moves. Records management. Either a Global Practice Leader, Co-leader, Senior Managing Director or Global CEO lead each of these practices. Restructuring/Turnaround Services.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Tom Spencer

JULY 2, 2015

It is currently summer, and Cabana is having trouble meeting demand. Turnarounds. Assuming RadioShack averts bankruptcy and achieves a successful refinancing, what should the strategy be to turnaround and save this iconic company? Over the past three months, inventory has tripled and customer complaints have doubled.

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Consulting Turnaround Case Interview Retail 60

Management Consulted

MARCH 29, 2015

I majored in accounting, finance and supply chain management at a college in the state (Miami of Ohio). I was going down the route of finance, asset management, investment banking, or something like that. I started researching management consulting online, and it really seemed up my alley. My manager stepped in for me.

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McKinsey Interviews Case Interview Consulting 100

Consulting and Organizational Management

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Instead, I’ve been more successful with, e.g., ”turnaround specialist” or “business developer.” ” Assessments should use the pareto principle, i.e., focus on some “best practices” in each of the major management functions. Career Management. Crisis Management. Read more.].

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Peter Stark

JANUARY 30, 2018

Meet with the leader to discuss how they perceive their leadership and what they believe others would say about their leadership, communication, and performance management style. Meet frequently with the leader to develop skills to effectively implement actions outlined in the plan. Conduct one-on-one interviews.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

While the world of quarterly reports is the preserve of managers, the long term is the fiefdom of leaders. As managers deal with delivering short-term results to keep the stock price high and leaders evangelize on the long-term future of the organization, the medium term is all but forgotten. It is pleasingly limitless.

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ConsultX

AUGUST 10, 2021

You can meet the challenges, reclaim your life, and grow your business at the same time. A one-stop turnaround plan, Conquer the Chaos lays out a complete path to make your business run smoothly and provide you with the freedom you desire. Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try improve performance.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 26, 2019

It is an approach I developed that is tailored for answering these questions in job interviews for management consulting, as well as interviews for senior executive positions in industry. Did you just show up at the sales meeting? The servers we wanted had a two-week turnaround time. E nd-Result. and to do it fast.

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Case Interview Interviews Resumes Retail 81

Harvard Business

AUGUST 22, 2018

Franklin had finally returned to profitability, but she and Cameron Koren, a turnaround specialist who’d been brought in as CEO five years earlier to right the ship, were still working hard to keep the business on track. She recounted her meeting with Marshall. As the plane descended into Aurora, Noelle wondered if she was wrong.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2017

LCPs also increasingly participate in fund-raising meetings with deal teams. As LCPs have proven their ability to transform the talent practices of the PE firm to the fund’s managing partners, they’re then tasked with doing the same for portfolio companies. About 20% of the CEOs had to be changed twice.

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1 to 1

AUGUST 18, 2021

Meeting these challenges while reducing cost to serve will require a digital-first, customer-centric approach. More often we are seeing digitally transforming legacy support systems as a key to meeting modern expectations. These roll up into what we call ‘effortless’ experiences, which will define the new age in retail.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 16, 2020

In looking at the medical literature on coronavirus, the current treatment protocol is essentially symptom management. I was supposed to be meeting 15,000 trade show attendees from around the world. Check out our Privacy Policy below for details on how we protect and manage your submitted data. you can’t breathe. No, Thanks!

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

He told me that he eventually learned to stray from his tour guides so that he could meet people who hadn’t been prepped for his visit, to see what was really happening. However, as CEO he stopped meeting with his brain trust and removed the two executives who had been his competitors. Second, get out of the bubble.

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Harvard Business

JULY 9, 2018

But while executive coaches have improved the performance of many already-good managers and sanded the rough edges off many less effective ones, they aren’t a miracle cure. So how do those who control the coaching purse strings — HR, talent managers, and other buyers — avoid throwing money away on uncoachable executives?

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

Pick an example of a work activity that happens regularly, like a daily or weekly standing meeting. For the attribute “location,” for example, you could ask your team: Is the meeting best facilitated if it’s held in an in-demand central meeting room or near where other people are likely to gather?

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2016

Perhaps nervous about the meeting in the morning, you find yourself lying on the bed flicking through the TV channels for something to watch to keep you awake to offset the growing jet-lag. Managing Across Cultures. “We started meeting in each other’s homes every few months. That’s a missed opportunity.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

But when some CEOs in this position look at the people they employ, they discover a problem: a swath of their existing team doesn’t have the necessary skills or metabolism for change to meet the new challenges. Volvo’s turnaround over the last decade offers a great example.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

I found that the companies that survive and thrive are good at aligning their organizations around three critical but competing activities : Box 1: Manage the present at peak efficiency and profitability. ” He continued, “let’s not launch Product X version 2 and instead focus all our efforts on Product Y.”

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

The idea of boomerang employees — workers who voluntarily leave a job at an organization and then rejoin that same organization at a later date — is gaining more and more acceptance from hiring managers and in the labor force. The experience has also had a positive impact on how she manages. ” Be positive.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co. He was very smart and polished but didn’t see how his pointed words and micromanaging ways were affecting his management team. He held them accountable for meeting sizable improvements, but he also supported the team during challenging periods.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

What were their biggest challenges, and how did you help meet them? Hiring managers will see what you have done — and can do for them. She then goes on to bullet point her partnership building, curriculum development, teacher training, and financial management accomplishments. Tell compelling before-and-after stories.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

Organizations waste too much time - see how Bain helps them manage it like money in this 10-minute video slide deck. While the former approach is friendlier from a change management perspective, we usually find that it leads to only incremental change. Consider the remarkable turnaround at Ford. Related Video.

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1 to 1

DECEMBER 7, 2021

When volume surges or the unexpected happens, organizations can pivot and scale support capacity quickly to meet customer needs across channels. Cloud solutions can also offer real-time knowledge management to provide more relevant and consistent answers that are desperately needed during the holidays.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2018

Gradual sales job reduction can be effective when the need to make cuts is not urgent and the process is well-managed. But too often, companies cut a few sales jobs and hope for a market turnaround that never happens. Meeting customer needs with a smaller sales team requires redefining how work gets done.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

After studying and working with hundreds of companies in free fall, we’ve identified concrete steps that leadership teams can take to engineer successful turnarounds and transformations. When a company is in free fall, it makes sense to replace the management team, for all sorts of reasons. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2016

While some situations demand outside successors — such as a turnaround or a discontinuous shift in the industry and strategy – we believe that internal candidates remain the future CEOs-of-choice. Ensure that your talent management and development planning is linked to your longer-term business strategy.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround. Measure performance carefully and manage with an eye on what’s most important to customers.

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