How Etsy Found Its Purpose and Crafted a Turnaround
Harvard Business
MARCH 22, 2022
CEO Josh Silverman’s purpose-driven turnaround at Etsy made the company profitable and improved its social and environmental impact.
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How to Develop Your Tagline to Win More Work
Successful Independent Consulting
AUGUST 28, 2024
In the list of taglines above, some of the keywords are “big, hairy projects;” “shared services;” “burnout prevention;” and “turnaround leader.” 1] These taglines were created and are owned respectively by 1) Alex Mostkov , Omnium Professional Services, LLC; 2) Lisa Duerre , RLD Group, LLC; 3) Philip Boken , PCB & Company.
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The Key to Campbell Soup’s Turnaround? Civility.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 5, 2017
Being treated with respect had a more powerful effect on employees than other more celebrated leadership behaviors including recognition and appreciation, communicating an inspiring vision, providing useful feedback — even opportunities for learning, growth, and development. Set Expectations. People valuing Campbell.”
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Narrow Your Niche to Win More Work as a Solopreneur
Successful Independent Consulting
APRIL 1, 2024
Here is a snippet from his resumé: Professional Summary and Services Jack Tradesmith is a senior consultant with professional experience in organization development and change, leadership and organizational communications, and coaching, as well as internal and external corporate communications, including global marketing initiatives.
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195 Your Consulting Niche vs Jack-of-All-Trades Myth
Successful Independent Consulting
JANUARY 20, 2017
My company represents self-employed professionals across the country, and over the last seven years I have interviewed, coached, or worked with more than 200 independent management consultants. I know a highly talented professional with over 20 years of experience with several Fortune 500 companies. Translation: turnaround expert.
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What to Do When You’re Returning to a Company You Used to Work For
Harvard Business
AUGUST 4, 2017
“It’s natural for companies to look for employees who have a track record,” he says. “You’re choosing to come back, which means the company wants you back,” she says. “No one wants to hear about how bad the company was when you left,” Dillon says. Network around the company.
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6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team
Rick Conlow
JUNE 3, 2021
Team failures, which sit at about 60% , demoralize employees, reduce productivity, cost companies billions of dollars, and inhibit innovation. Over 80% of managers fail according to leadership derailment studies. Less than 25% of employees have attended a company sponsored training program in the last five years. You must act.
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6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team
Rick Conlow
JUNE 3, 2021
Team failures, which sit at about 60% , demoralize employees, reduce productivity, cost companies billions of dollars, and inhibit innovation. Over 80% of managers fail according to leadership derailment studies. Less than 25% of employees have attended a company sponsored training program in the last five years. You must act.
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When Is Teamwork Really Necessary?
Harvard Business
AUGUST 16, 2018
Consider the example of Nicolas, a regional sales vice president at a medical devices company. Catherine, a senior marketing director leading a cross-functional product development team at the same company, provides a contrasting case study. The result: wasted time and unnecessary frustration. SOURCE Michael Watkins. ©
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AlixPartners Interviews and Culture
Management Consulted
JANUARY 25, 2016
AlixPartners is an international business advisory firm based in Southfield, MI known for its work in corporate turnarounds, bankruptcy assignments and restructuring. Generally regarded as turnaround market leaders, AlixPartners is doing a killer job at taking up more room in the consulting space by strategically hiring a plethora of gurus.
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PE Firms Are Creating a New Role: Leadership Capital Partner
Harvard Business
AUGUST 11, 2017
Making these shifts requires increased attention to organizational governance around three domains: talent, capability , and leadership. To focus that attention and transform the companies in their portfolios, PE firms are establishing a new role that we call a leadership capital partner (LCP).
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Your Organization Wastes Time. Here’s How to Fix It.
Harvard Business
MARCH 13, 2017
That’s demoralizing for employees, and a waste for companies, which badly need the full energy and commitment of all their workers. By attacking the root causes of organizational drag, companies can eliminate unnecessary work, reenergize the workforce and, at the same time, put the business on a better course. Related Video.
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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
At any given moment, about 5%–7% of companies either are in free fall or are about to be. And here’s a sobering fact: Only about 10%–15% of those companies will ever pull out of it. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.
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70 In the Best Sales Teams, About Half of the People Are in Support Roles
Harvard Business
MAY 25, 2016
Sales reps are most effective when they have the right amount of support staff, but exactly how much support staff does a company need, and how should it be structured? And these top performers have a 30% higher level of sales support than the rest of the companies. Sales efficiency can benefits from high levels of support in two ways.
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131 First, You’ve Got to Show That You Care
Markovitz Consulting
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
Do I even need to tell you that the company is struggling with both productivity and quality? I’ve been working with this company to improve performance on the shop floor, but progress has been incremental. Or small issues that don’t necessarily make it to the radar screen of leadership even if they’re important to the employees.
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Are you leadership material? Leadership myths dispelled.
Peter Stark
JUNE 9, 2020
At the end of a tough day, have you ever thought that you might not be leadership material? The term leadership material falsely implies that either you have what it takes to be a leader, or you don’t. Let’s take a look at some of the most prevalent leadership myths: Great leaders are born, not made.
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Outsider CEOs Are on the Rise at the World’s Biggest Companies
Harvard Business
APRIL 19, 2016
It was hard to be more of an insider at The Walt Disney Company than COO Thomas Staggs. The 26-year company veteran had been widely seen as the heir apparent to CEO Bob Iger — that is, until Staggs abruptly stepped down this month. “We’ve spent a lot of time with companies that are worried,” Nielson says.
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How Companies Escape the Traps of the Past
Harvard Business
APRIL 26, 2016
A staggering 88% of companies listed in the 1955 Fortune 500 are nowhere to be found in the same list today. If we want our companies to last, we must excel at the “ Three Box Solution.” If we want our companies to last, we must excel at the “ Three Box Solution.” Now it’s less than 15 years.
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4 Ways CEOs Can Conquer Short-Termism
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
We offer such a roadmap here, the outcome of a research project , at the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership, with 25 CEOs and their practices for mastering short-term pressures and creating long-term social and economic value, even in the toughest conditions. The CEOs in our study were adept at telling their company’s story.
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List of strategy consulting firms in Hong Kong
Tom Spencer
SEPTEMBER 29, 2011
Bain & Company. Booz & Company. McKinsey & Company. Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Bain & Company. Bain & Company (Hong Kong). Founded in 1973 when Bill Bain and others left BCG to form Bain & Company. IMS Health.
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The Mistakes PE Firms Make When They Pick CEOs for Portfolio Companies
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
When a private equity firm adds a new company to its portfolio, analysts rigorously size up its financial, operational, and competitive condition. Yet even with all that knowledge and effort, many private equity companies still don’t do a good job when it comes to deciding whether to keep the CEO in place or select a new CEO.
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4 Signs an Executive Isn’t Ready for Coaching
Harvard Business
JULY 9, 2018
In fact, we have seen many companies waste considerable sums by assigning coaches to managers who just aren’t ready to be coached, no matter how effective the coaches may be. One CEO we worked with was known for his smart turnarounds of a large media company. manufacturing company.
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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management
Harvard Business
MAY 18, 2017
A follow-up article, coauthored with Amy Edmondson and Francesca Gino, delved more deeply into such issues as psychological safety, openness to new ideas, and leadership attention. Great leadership is extraordinarily difficult. But the main contribution of “Is Yours a Learning Organization?”
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7 Factors of Great Office Design
Harvard Business
MAY 20, 2016
Smart companies understand that workspaces are a business tool. For example, we’ve seen an explosion of open office layouts, sn part because openness, transparency, and collaboration are some of the attributes companies strive for today. At the same time, the company knew they had some challenges.
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Leaders Who Get Change Right Know How to Listen
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 17, 2016
Take Anne Mulcahy, who stepped into the CEO role at Xerox in 2001, during a particularly tough time in the company’s history. Yet she chose to spend her first three months talking with employees, understanding their concerns, and testing their reactions to potential solutions to the company’s problems. Hope rekindled.
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7 Tenets of a Good CEO Succession Process
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 7, 2016
Perhaps no single factor has a greater impact on a company’s future — for better or worse — than the selection of a new CEO. Leadership is changing — fast. There should be 7 potential CEOs in your company across several generations. How does this impact his or her leadership? Insight Center.
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Marissa Mayer’s Departure from Yahoo and the Challenge of Drawing Lessons from an N of 1
Harvard Business
JUNE 15, 2017
With that luxury in our hands now, here are some critical leadership lessons we can draw from Mayer’s tenure as CEO of Yahoo. Too often when we evaluate leadership performance, we fail to distinguish between the leader’s personal success and the success of their companies.
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71 Private Equity’s New Phase
Harvard Business
AUGUST 9, 2016
From 1996 to 2015, the number of publicly traded companies in the United States alone dropped nearly 50%. A major catalyst for this shift has been private equity firms, which take companies private and incorporate them into their own portfolios. Three Phases in the Evolution of Private Equity Investment.
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Management Consulted
FEBRUARY 15, 2015
The tiny company brought major changes to the presentation of technical courtroom evidence using computer models built with a simple yet powerful goal in mind – to help jury members understand the technical merits in law cases. 1999: FTI Consulting began trading as a public company on the NYSE. companies by Fortune Magazine.
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The Journey from Underdog Athlete to Turnaround CEO w/Mike MacDonald Ep#155
Strategic Planning and Management Insights
MARCH 1, 2022
SME Strategy is a strategy consulting company that specializes in aligning teams around their vision, mission, values, goals and action plans. Learn more about how we can help align your team with our strategic planning and implementation services.
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52 To Grow as a Leader, Seek More Complex Assignments
Harvard Business
JULY 20, 2016
Japan’s educational institutions and cultural work ethic give its managers a jump-start in their careers, but most companies don’t continue the development process as far as it could go. against the average scores for those metrics from all the executives in our worldwide database. What we found was an incredible paradox.
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70 A Simple Way to Map Out Your Career Ambitions
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 30, 2018
My experience with even the most successful global companies is that they’re between average and poor at developing future talent. Leadership & Developing People Book. Both of those leaders are now CEOs — one of a $10 billion retail chain and another of a specialty eyewear company. franckreporter/Getty Images.
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Great Leaders Are Confident, Connected, Committed, and Courageous
Harvard Business
JULY 13, 2018
Brad was leading a difficult turnaround of his company and had decided to fire his head of sales, who was a nice guy but wasn’t performing. ” Which puts his challenge in perspective: His connection to his head of sales was at war with his commitment to the success of his team and company. Pat LaCroix/Getty Images.
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134 Great CEOs See the Importance of Being Understood
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 16, 2016
No one who listens to Alan Mulally describe Ford’s remarkable turnaround escapes his rendition of One Ford , One Team , and Working Together. Leadership is changing — fast. At one well-regarded web services firm, the new CEO wanted her company to become more customer-focused – indeed “customer-obsessed.”
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List of strategy consulting firms in London
Tom Spencer
OCTOBER 3, 2011
Bain & Company. Booz & Company. Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. A&M specialises in turnaround and interim management, performance management and business advisory services. APT provides software and consulting services for consumer-focused companies.
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The Decline of Yahoo in Its Own Words
Harvard Business
JUNE 2, 2016
. “I wanted to highlight some of the progress we have made in mobile, which is another big strategic area for us,” he told listeners , noting that Google Maps was becoming popular for Blackberry users and later adding that it was critical that the company make sure all its content worked on phones.
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70 Internal Hires Need Just as Much Support as External Ones
Harvard Business
APRIL 4, 2016
He had spent his entire 14-year career at the company, had worked hard, and had rapidly climbed the ranks in sales and marketing. The culmination was his promotion to business unit leader for Plastic Resins, one of the company’s best-performing units. He inherited a strong team with a proven track record.
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How to Overcome Executive Isolation
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 2, 2017
” But being isolated at the top can compromise your decision making and leadership effectiveness, both of which require having as much firsthand information about a situation as possible. Two years later, the board dismissed the CEO because his plan for the company wasn’t working.
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70 Leaders Need Different Skills to Thrive in Tech
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 17, 2016
You accept your first job as a manager in a fast growth tech company, thinking: “How much different could this be from my former company—a financial services firm? Half of your colleagues worked above, below or alongside each other in previous companies. Management is management, right?”
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Leading Across Cultures Requires Flexibility and Curiosity
Harvard Business
MAY 30, 2016
This was validated in my most recent research into mindfulness and leadership, where it emerged as the number one skill. What Leadership Looks Like in Different Cultures. This is true in company cultures too, by the way, not just national or regional ones.). You and Your Team Series. Managing Across Cultures.
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Organizations Can’t Change If Leaders Can’t Change with Them
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 24, 2016
” This reflects an endemic lack of self-awareness in leadership, and the costs are significant. One newly appointed CEO I worked with was leading a massive overhaul of his company while he personally struggled deeply with indecisiveness. We later discovered that her impatience was symptomatic of deeper issues.
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70 The Connection Between Employee Trust and Financial Performance
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. ” These companies beat “the average annualized returns of the S&P 500 by a factor of three.” Weeds and overgrowth flanking the grim exterior. Was this a prison? How to Develop the Trust-Building Skill.
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PARADE Method
CaseInterview.com
MARCH 26, 2019
EXAMPLE #1: The date was November 22, 2000 for XYZ company -- one of the leading start companies in the eCommerce software services market. The company was on pace to grow sales by 600% for the year. In addition, we had an IPO scheduled for Q1, and if the company failed to deliver, our IPO would be in jeopardy.
Improve Your Resume by Turning Bullet Points into Stories
Harvard Business
MAY 4, 2016
And on the rare occasions when you do land an interview, you stumble over questions about what you’d bring to the hiring company and why you’re the perfect fit. But the bullet becomes much more impressive because he placed it in the larger context of what his company’s overall challenges were.
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