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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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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 Key to Campbell Soup’s Turnaround? Civility.

Harvard Business

When Doug took over as CEO of Campbell Soup Company in 2001, the company had just lost half its market value, sales were declining, and the organization was reeling from a series of layoffs. You’ll need to set expectations, identify practices to bring those expectations to life, and then measure and reinforce your civility initiative.

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Saving RadioShack

Tom Spencer

When the business landscape changes, how can you turnaround a failing company? Assuming this leads to successful refinancing, what should the strategy be to turnaround and save this iconic company? When faced with a broad turnaround question, it is important to ask a variety of questions to determine the source of the problem.

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The Perils of Internal Disruption (Part 2)

Markovitz Consulting

Incentives and discounts create tremendous disruption in a company’s business by distorting both incoming market signals and outgoing orders to suppliers. The sales and marketing departments began offering special deals to clear out the inventory, but no one told the manufacturing department about the promotions. Permalink

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Your Consulting Niche vs Jack-of-All-Trades Myth

Successful Independent Consulting

Here is a verbatim snippet from her résumé at the time: PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY AND SERVICES 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.