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Coaching Versus Consulting: Which Is Right for Your Organization?

N2Growth Blog

This flexibility is precious in today’s fast-paced business environment, where organizations must adapt rapidly to changing market conditions. They bring outside industry knowledge, best practices, and benchmarking data, ensuring the organization is well-positioned to achieve its goals.

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A Non-Profit Board’s AHA Moment

Lead Change Blog

We are bringing in new talent with experience in developing programs, marketing, and engagement. We need internal benchmarks and a leadership scorecard for our leadership team. Restructuring our organizational foundation has been a journey of sweat and examination. What are our criteria? What is our succession plan?

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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Should a CEO’s Bonus Be Based on Financial Performance Alone?

Harvard Business Review

” Take, as an example, the world’s largest mining company by market capitalization, BHP Billiton. CEO incentives have traditionally been evaluated against objective data — also labelled “hard.” ” What has emerged more recently is the use of nonfinancial, but still objective, KPIs.

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Private Equity’s New Phase

Harvard Business Review

The primary focus was on fixing the acquired firm through financial restructuring, dramatic cost cutting, and strategic slashing. These “buy, fix, manage, and then sell” PE firms were essentially umbrella holding companies while the acquired firms would become better managed before returning to the public market.

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Skills Innovations For An Ever Changing World

The Horizons Tracker

“Skills provision was reformed to be much more market-oriented and aligned with the city’s economic development strategy, ” the authors explain. Restructuring. By contrast, Shanghai provides some invaluable lessons in terms of their ability to reinvent their economic purpose after a period of deindustrialisation.

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business Review

Stagnant growth in its core PC market recently led Intel to announce layoffs of roughly 12% of its workforce. The company will also eliminate a key chipset in the difficult tablet and smartphone market. But the past is merely a prologue. How best to draw actionable inspiration from Grove?

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