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How Diligent Biz Dev Led to a Six-Figure Consulting Project

Successful Independent Consulting

January 2015: I email Joe via LinkedIn: Hello Joe, I see you've been in your new job 6 months already. July 2015: Joe changes jobs again, going back to a company where he worked years before. I have a need for an independent change management consultant in LA. He replies: Will do Liz. We can coordinate via email.

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Change Readiness?—?Essential but Oft-Omitted

Harmonious Workplaces

During the month of October, I had the pleasure of learning Organizational Development (OD) and Change Leadership from The Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. I found this experience not only enlightening and a delight but also pragmatic and extremely helpful in the way I think about organizational change.

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What I Learned from Leading a Tunisian Ministry During the Arab Spring

Harvard Business

A “Tunisian Quartet,” composed of four civil society associations, initiated and facilitated the country’s national dialogue (for which they were warded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize). I would say overall, we harnessed technology to push the country toward the future.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. PM Images/Getty Images. A recent Navigant survey found that U.S. This was because their expenses grew faster than their revenues, despite cost-cutting initiatives. ” Clearly, more is needed.

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Harmony & Rythm in Organizational Development

Harmonious Workplaces

New Beginning, Making Gains: Attitude change and acceptance take hold as people perceive benefits (improved efficiency, new skills, better service) and celebrate successes. Shifting metaphors, shifting mindsets: Using music to change the key of conflict. Advances in Mind Body Medicine, 19 (3/4), 4–15. Bridges, W. link] Hull, A.

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Rethinking the Corporate Love Affair with Change

Harvard Business

Compare that with the Fortune 500: Only 12% of the firms on the original 1955 list were still on the list in 2015. Wherever you stand on these examples, this much is clear: Executives should first mind the way they talk about change. Ivy League institutions have remained atop their industry for more than 300 years.

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5 Things We Learned About Creating a Successful Workplace Diversity Program

Harvard Business

In 2015, UCAR appointed Brinkworth as the Director for Diversity, Education, and Outreach (DEO), (later called the Chief Diversity Officer), and was tasked with making UCAR more diverse and inclusive. Like many technical workplaces, UCAR, which has approximately 1400 employees, has struggled to recruit and retain women and people of color.