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Business Book Review: Lords of Strategy

Management Consulted

This week’s post is on Lords of Strategy - written by Walter Kiechel III , a journalist for 30 years, serving as an editor of Fortune and editorial director of Harvard Business Publishing. It was interesting to know that private equity firms are among the largest clients of the strategy consulting giants.

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One Reason Mergers Fail: The Two Cultures Aren’t Compatible

Harvard Business

The two companies may have seen value in capitalizing on each other’s strengths, but they failed to investigate their cultural compatibility beforehand. When tight and loose cultures merge, there is a good chance that they will clash. Tight company cultures value consistency and routine. Loose cultures are much more fluid.

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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business

Rather than assuming we’ll work in one location, in our native culture, we will need new skills, attitudes, and behaviors that help us work across cultures. What’s more, the subsidiaries operated more or less autonomously, each with separate organizational cultures and norms. Embracing positive indifference.

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Advisory Board Company Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

You’ll have to read on to hear our opinion (see Culture section in particular). The Advisory Board Company serves a number of industries with memberships, but the overwhelming majority of the consulting services (strategy and implementation) are in the firm’s core healthcare space. THE ADVISORY BOARD COMPANY CULTURE.

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BTS Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

BTS GROUP INTERVIEWS AND CULTURE. A strategy execution and implementation firm based in Sweden, today the firm counts 59 of the U.S. However, the firm operates in five main practice areas: Assessments, Business Acumen, Leadership Development, Sales Training, and Strategy Execution. BTS GROUP CULTURE. BTS GROUP KEY STATS.

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The Best Companies Know How to Balance Strategy and Purpose

Harvard Business

Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. In 2006 alone, Nokia introduced 39 new mobile-device models. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution.

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Job Hub: Pixar Animation Studios Jobs and Culture

Management Consulted

———— History & Culture. Pixar Animation Studios actually began as Graphics Group, a division of Lucasfilm, in 1979 before becoming a corporation in 1986 with major funding from Steve Jobs; it was later bought by Disney in 2006 for 7.4 It’s your opportunity to bring imagination to life.”. billion dollars.

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