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Is Execution Where Good Strategies Go to Die?

Harvard Business

Execution is often where strategies go to die. So what determines whether execution brings life or death to your strategy? The mental models that inform strategy are usually different from those that determine implementation. To close the strategy-execution gap, leaders have to close several other, smaller gaps.

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Engaging Employees in Health Care Data Security

Harvard Business

Healthcare is a high stress environment, where, understandably, information security training is often not the top priority. For this industry especially, security policies that reduce productivity are at irreconcilable odds with the organization and its patients. Work those into your behavior change strategy.

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Strategic Choices Need to Be Made Simultaneously, Not Sequentially

Harvard Business

The CEO of a large Australian company called me to relay a particular strategy development problem his firm was facing, and ask for my advice. The only productive, intelligent way to generate possibilities for strategy choice is to consider matched pairs of Where to Play and How to Win choices.

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Improve Your Resume by Turning Bullet Points into Stories

Harvard Business

How to Get the Most Out of an Informational Interview. ” “Craft brand identities that position products and companies to capture #1 category positions. Attained #1 position in composite rail tie category and became the standard by which all other rail tie manufacturers’ products are measured throughout the U.S.,

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Bridgespan Non-Profit Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Funding Strategy. Global Strategy. Strategy Development. Youth Development. Colin Bowman – Product Manager – Yahoo. Bridgespan has a strong focus in nonprofits and in social work across key sectors: Education. Leadership Effectiveness. Organizational Effectiveness. Performance Measurement .

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The 3 Company Crises Boards Should Watch For

Harvard Business

A third problem is when essential information that highlights the possibility of failure does not flow from the CEO to the board, or from the supervisee to the boss. In some cases the information may be flowing but the board may lack the skill to interpret it. Inadequate Corporate Governance. — to embed problem-finding.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms in San Francisco

Management Consulted

It serves industries such as consumer products, healthcare, information & media, life sciences, private equity, and oil & gas. Patpatia & Associates: A boutique management consulting firm focusing on strategy development and implementation for financial services firms.