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Case Study: When Two Leaders on the Senior Team Hate Each Other

Harvard Business

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. ” Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers.

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Top 11 Must-Read Project Management Books

Epicflow

Becoming a competent and sought-after project manager is impossible without constant professional development. The essays are based on Scott Berkun’s work experience as a project manager at Microsoft, which however doesn’t mean that his guidelines will be useful for software development projects only.

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From STEM PhD to Federal Consulting: An Interview with Josh

Management Consulted

In this job I managed investigator initiated clinical trials, scientific messaging and key opinion leader development. The University of Vermont had a strong sports nutrition program and I decided to go back to school and learn how to be a better athlete. After that, I moved to Portland, OR and.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

We recently completed a study for the CEO of a very well known, global sports-apparel brand company. Our sports-apparel CEO had the right idea in challenging his team to think about the organization and ask: are we fit for growth, given our strategies going forward? Learning from Big Companies.

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Conversation with 2020 Delivery

Tom Spencer

I recently had the good fortune to talk briefly with Mike Meredith who is a Director at 2020 Delivery, and leads the firm’s people development function. If people have a desire to develop a functional model or understand how hospitals really work we allow people to pursue particular interests. Tom: What is 2020 Delivery’s travel model?

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OC&C Strategy Consultants Interview and Culture

Management Consulted

Like the practice areas, OC&C Strategy Consultants have developed their personal strategy around smaller focus areas but promising big results. Your internship allows you access across all sectors; you could be working on an M&A project, developing corporate strategy or even being involved in planning major organisational change.

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Too Much Team Harmony Can Kill Creativity

Harvard Business

” Indeed, not just in business but also in politics, sports, and the arts, there is no shortage of real-world examples of successful partnerships that were fueled as much by the alignment of ideas as by creative tension or discord. William Wrigley Jr., Give the team a chance to settle.

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