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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 CULTURE. The firm focuses more on expertise and pedigree than merit, and the firm’s high turnover rate is self-fulfilling – low cultural cohesion leads to more of the same. What does that mean?

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Becoming a Data-Driven Organization: What You Need to Know

Epicflow

During the recent decade, companies have been making efforts to transform their business processes and culture to turn into data-driven organizations. . Data privacy, ethics, and security will be treated as areas of required competency. Cultural challenges. Culture in this case refers to people, processes, and change management.

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It’s Time to Make Business School Research More Relevant

Harvard Business

The second problem, which we refer to as “Lost Before Translation,” is the tendency for academic researchers to design studies without input from managers or employees — the populations that their studies’ results are meant to help.

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Five Ways to Raise your Game in Consulting

The Consultants Peer Group

First, Confessions of a Whistleblower by Garrison Lovely highlighted several cultural problems at the consulting firm, McKinsey. Years of experience, references to past clients, testimonials, etc. Over a short two-day span several consulting related articles caught my attention. Stay tuned.

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People Don’t Want to Be Compared with Others in Performance Reviews. They Want to Be Compared with Themselves

Harvard Business

They also consider it fair when their evaluations are accurate and are conducted based on ethical and moral principles. Specifically, in four studies based on the data collected from 1,024 American and Dutch employees, we compared two types of reference points. One reference point is the focal employees’ own past performance.

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Ban These 5 Words From Your Corporate Values Statement

Harvard Business

90% of them reference ethical behavior or use the word “integrity,” 88% mention commitment to customers, and 76% cite teamwork and trust. According to the Booz Allen Hamilton and Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program researchers , most corporations’ values incorporate similar words and ideas.

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Recruiters You Should Meet to Staff for Success

Harmonious Workplaces

Retained search firms and recruiters play a crucial role in attracting and retaining human capital in organizations across cultures (Allen & Vardaman, 2017). However, I have found that the best results came from working with highly motivated, strongly competent, and extremely ethical recruiters who own and operate small businesses.