Consulting Matters

APRIL 13, 2023

He applied for a financial manager job at Disney and was one of 1400 candidates. During his twelve-and-a-half-year tenure, he worked in finance and strategic planning before taking over as leader of Epcot theme park on the week of 911, 2001. Today, Brad Rex shares the real reasons why executives hire consultants and coaches.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2017

When Doug took over as CEO of Campbell Soup Company in 2001, the company had just lost half its market value, sales were declining, and the organization was reeling from a series of layoffs. The environment was so toxic that a Gallup manager described employee engagement as “among the worst [he had] ever seen among the Fortune 500.”

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. A Sloan Management Review article (which I had the pleasure of working on) provides valuable context for Garvin’s most-read HBR articles.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

In a PWC survey of more than 2,000 global executives, managers, and employees, only 54% of respondents said their change initiatives succeeded — and the most frequently cited problem (by 65% of those surveyed) was change fatigue. ” And she restored the company’s profitability — the turnaround was a success.

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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. ” In his characteristic style, Welch blasted the Elfun Society at their leadership conference.

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2016

This was the headquarters of Campbell Soup Company when one of us, Doug Conant, took the reins as CEO in 2001. The goals were spread across twelve manageable quarters, and they were authentic goals, anchored in mutual benefit (not rooted in showboating or chest puffery). Was this a prison?

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