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How Agile Teams Can Help Turnarounds Succeed

Harvard Business

It is most definitely not for big, old-line companies that are facing an existential crisis and require a full-scale turnaround. None of these conditions exists in extreme events such as natural disasters, terrorist attacks, major military battles — or large-scale business turnarounds. It’s for techies.

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How to Develop Your Tagline to Win More Work

Successful Independent Consulting

A marketing tagline is short phrase that helps people remember you in a certain way. In the list of taglines above, some of the keywords are “big, hairy projects;” “shared services;” “burnout prevention;” and “turnaround leader.” Remember, clients want to hire The Expert, so be sure to market yourself as one! [1]

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Big Ideas, Bad Results: Avoiding Strategic Uselessness

Tom Spencer

Over a 12 month period, the companys market capitalization dropped by more than US$5 billion. Execution requires alignment with operational realities, not just a vision of where the organization wants to go. Lack of focus on what really matters can seriously harm your business, sometimes fatally.

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Consultant Ninja: Finally, two counter-cyclical markets: Management.

Consultant Ninja

Finally, two counter-cyclical markets. After seeing so many markets down, my cousin in the hunting business informed me that gun sales have been surging, due to Obama winning the presidency. The other sector Im long on is turnaround consulting: 10-13-08. Tuesday, November 11, 2008. WaMu made a motion to designate William C.

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The Perils of Internal Disruption (Part 2)

Markovitz Consulting

But when it comes to internal operations at least, disruption is often both bad for business and for employees, because it causes unevenness in work. Incentives and discounts create tremendous disruption in a company’s business by distorting both incoming market signals and outgoing orders to suppliers. Next week: Batch Processing.

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Why CEO’s Hire Consultants and Coaches: The REAL Value They Bring with Brad Rex

Consulting Matters

About the guest: About the guest: Brad Rex is an accomplished senior executive and corporate officer with proven experience growing businesses and driving results in start-up, turnaround, expansion and multi-site situations.

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6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team

Rick Conlow

3 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team. The following six proven turnaround tactics come from my consulting practice. For example, one organization I worked with had no training and were last in their market. These kinds of actions can swiftly turnaround a failing team. See this– SPICA: Team Management Skills. )