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Want To Be On The Leading Edge? Forget About It.

Markovitz Consulting

Here are a few areas that are probably creating lethal operational drag on the corporate ship. At this level, managers are consumed with the chaos of daily operations, and seldom have any understanding—or bandwidth—to execute on the lofty strategic goals pronounced in the C-Suite. Problem: lack of clarity around strategy.

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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business

If any story demonstrates how far employers will go in today’s fierce war for talent, the tale of Snapchat’s geofilter recruiting campaign is it. These days, I advise Fortune 500 executives to treat talent as they would customers: Understand their behavior, and design recruiting strategies that meet them where they are.

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Walmart Won’t Stay on Top If Its Strategy Is “Copy Amazon”

Harvard Business

Amazon will likely continue adding Prime benefits to the mix, potentially including the holy grail of entertainment: live sports. Walmart’s acquisitions of e-commerce companies and digital technologies, and the talent that comes along with them, enable it to get better at this, but Amazon will continue to improve too.

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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business

In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. A great salesperson will operate much more efficiently with a defined process for reaching out to prospects. We made a number of operational changes to the call center.

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The Paths of Consultancy

Tom Spencer

Through sheer desire (and a strong talent for analytics), he achieved a top spot in an industry with no room for the gangly and physically lacking among us. By accepting graduates from a broad range of majors consultancy is a field full of a diverse range of talent. But he knew that he wanted to be involved in the sport.

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Keeping B2B Marketing Content “Human”

Women in Consulting

It’s not a lack of creative storytelling talent. Avoid overused metaphors (sports and war, for example) that have become clichés in business, however. Companies operate as “people,” too, with their own personality attributes. Marketing is supposed to put human needs first by sounding like it was created for humans by humans.

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