Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 10, 2024

You might be wondering, “ Can I really start a consulting business or coaching practice while managing the chaos of raising young children?” Your joy: If your business doesn’t bring you joy, it will drain the energy you need to be fully present with your kids. ” The answer is yes.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 12, 2024

Whether you are in consulting, strategy, operations, or product management, the ability to manage meetings effectively is a crucial skill that can significantly impact the success of your endeavors. This is especially relevant in product management, where decisions often involve cross-functional collaboration.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2024

In this article, the author outlines strategies for how to focus your energy so you can have the most significant impact while also considering what makes sense for you in the long run. Working longer hours for a struggling company may make you feel like a hero, but one person’s efforts will not save an at-risk organization.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Too often we don’t want to spend time and mental energy revisiting the past, especially if it contains uncomfortable missteps. But true efficiency sometimes requires slowing down, being mindful, and especially looking back at the decisions we’ve made that didn’t go as we’d hoped.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The author recommends five strategies: 1) Take inventory of your health and energy; 2) Ease back into work; 3) Reflect on the positives; reframe and learn from the negatives; 4) Use the fresh start effect to set up new routines; and 5) Clarify what you need for future time off.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 14, 2022

Energy transitions occur from time to time, due to the discovery of new energy sources such as coal or due to policy changes, such as France’s embrace of nuclear energy. Energy transitions have occurred throughout history, from burning wood to coal, then oil and natural gas. Background.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

The most common conversation I have these days with discouraged employees below senior management levels goes like this: “This company’s bureaucracy is killing me. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. The energy, commitment, and collaboration among team members was a revelation. Maybe this group includes you.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 30, 2016

In most organizations, culture and strategy tend to be discussed in separate conversations. ” What most executive teams typically fail to do is to connect the company’s culture with how the company makes its strategy work.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Look for the candidates whose skills and energy encourage everyone around them to perform better.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2017

Using each of these functions effectively is critical if one wants to manage information overload ̶ simply using your brain for crossing items off your to-do list is poor use of a very sophisticated machine. At the core of managing information overload is the ability to know which function to use, and how and when to use it.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

Do you focus your energy on selling yourself, your mission or methodology OR do you position yourself as a strategic partner who is ready to help solve a clients most pressing business performance challenges. The Moment of Truth - When Your Contacts Turn into Contracts.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In today’s business landscape, sustainability is no longer a niche concern; it’s a core component of corporate strategy. Environmental Metrics: These measure a company’s impact on the planet, including emissions, energy efficiency, waste management, water usage, and sustainability of the supply chain.

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Harvard Business

JULY 4, 2016

This is particularly true in organizations where employees are both, what Paul Graham calls, “makers” and “managers.” Managers, on the other hand, are the leaders who integrate across disciplines and serve as the interface between customer needs and the organization’s strategy.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 15, 2017

But when managers favor one employee over another, morale and productivity suffer. Here are some strategies to ensure fairness. What Great Managers Do. Exceptional managers find and capitalize on their employees' unique strengths. . Related Video. ” Ask yourself, “Whose turn is it?” Be inclusive.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Using the end of the summer to reset your approach to development can create new energy for your career. Instead of feeling like another thing to fit in, it can be a new source of motivation that supports everything else you’re trying to do.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Five strategies to help you muster up the energy.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

After reading hundreds of studies, interviewing dozens of experts, and running the gambit of self-experiments (including attending meditation retreats and slogging through a monthlong period of self-induced boredom), I learned that countless strategies can help us mitigate distraction. Here are four of my favorites. Give yourself 50 minutes.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

Do you focus your energy on selling yourself, your mission or methodology OR do you position yourself as a strategic partner who is ready to help solve a clients most pressing business performance challenges. The Moment of Truth - When Your Contacts Turn into Contracts.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

It seems that not only is it possible to do both things well, but the best leaders are the very ones who manage to do both. Supervisors are much more likely to carry both capabilities than senior managers, we found. In fact, supervisors are twice as likely to do both things well than senior managers. Drives for results.

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Steve Shu Consulting

JULY 25, 2014

For example, Opower tapped into a great market using software-as-a-service and a behavioral efficiency model for saving energy. Strategy Development. Behavioral Economics Business Development General Management Innovation Intrapreneurship Technology' Each of these routes is suited for different situations.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 2, 2017

Strategy& (PwC). Ask any consultant about the Middle East, and Booz (now Strategy&) will be the first name on their lips! A little later, Booz was acquired by PwC and rebranded as Strategy& Now that our little history lesson is complete, let’s continue. Here we go!

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Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

An empath is someone with an extremely reactive neurological system which causes them to absorb both the positive and stressful energies around them. The first step towards managing your empath abilities and keep them working for you is to own that you are an empath and learn how to set boundaries around your work. I'm an Empath.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Consider Apple, hardly a byword in the energy business. This summer, the company applied for federal licenses to sell directly to customers the excess renewable energy it generates on its new campus and in facilities across Oregon, Nevada, and California. But solar electricity is only the beginning of the future energy marketplace.

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Harvard Business

MAY 2, 2018

It first influenced business decades ago, through the development of an unmistakably hard skill that senior managers must master: strategic planning. Wack perceived the world differently than his colleagues in the energy business. The practice is helping people manage stress and maximize creativity. Gurdjieff in Paris.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Many managers want to be more inclusive. For the most part, managers are not given the right tools to overcome the challenges posed by implicit biases. But this demands a lot of cognitive energy, so over time, managers go back to their old habits. PATRIK STOLLARZ/Getty Images. But they don’t know how to get there.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 17, 2024

Hundreds of articles have been written on strategy, each with an author that presents a unique perspective from years of paradigm-shaking experience. Some even “reinvent the wheel” by rejecting past concepts altogether and introducing an entirely new way of thinking about strategy.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

A year into their jobs, how many employees still have the unbridled energy and enthusiasm that they brought with them to their first day on the job? Unproductive routines, corporate bureaucracy, and “administrivia” kill ambition and sap energy for far too many employees. How many still believe they can make a difference?

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 2, 2023

years in management consulting, I transitioned to a Fortune 50 US company in an internal strategy role. Before outlining the benefits of internal strategy, I want to highlight a few things: I generally enjoyed my time as a consultant and view the firm I left with high regard. Internal strategy isn’t for everyone.

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Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

It's coming to a place of understanding and respect for the complexity that leaders manage when trying to guide human beings to work together. Consultants do not work harder than their clients – they have to bring the energy and sponsorship of the work. It's our energy that attracts (or repels) potential clients.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In research for our book, Time, Talent and Energy, my co-author Michael Mankins and I found that such investments do indeed pay off: The top-quartile companies in our study unlocked 40% more productive power in their workforce through better practices in time, talent and energy management.

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 26, 2018

By the time we’d grown to a couple hundred employees, all that dissipated energy had begun to yield diminishing returns. You need to add the word ‘no’ to your management vocabulary.” “But it’s backfiring in scale-up mode. You have half-baked projects all over the place.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 30, 2017

The combination of these factors ( time + talent + energy ) and the interactions between them, is how human capital is converted into productivity and economic value. Finally, let’s look at energy. For the average company, energy was the single largest source of productive power.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 18, 2022

As part of a consulting engagement or broader enterprise strategy alignment, you can expect to plan and run an offsite at one point of your career. So whether you are running a small executive team offsite, or one for a larger group, here are five tips I’ve used to plan a successful strategy offsite. It may take a few rounds.

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Consulting Matters

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

It’s a common career trajectory: An employee becomes a front-line supervisor, then a manager, then a leader of leaders and then eventually an executive over a department or an even broader entity. Despite common perception - executives are not simply managers with a broader scope and span of control. POLITICAL SAVVY.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 12, 2021

If you're a PO or a product manager, you might need to explain this product's strategy now. As a senior manager, you might want to explain the company's state and explain the current goals. Or, for this project (interim release) for this product now. You also might want to have reconnection time as part of the meeting.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Gemini Consulting was formed in 1991 with the integration of management consulting firms, United Research and The MAC Group. The practice areas with projects that offer the best exit opportunities for business management are Big Data and Analytics, Marketing and Business & Technology Innovation. Random, right?

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