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Why Companies Hire an External Consultant to Help Them

Strategy Driven

Specialized skills are expensive to develop in-house and you might only need them occasionally. When you and your team are too close to a situation it’s difficult to see the wood from the trees. Have you ever felt like your team needs some inspiration? Support the Team. Change of Perspective. Back You Up.

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Twitter Weekly Highlights for 2011-03-18

Tanveer Naseer

Here’s a compliation of some of the articles/tweets I shared on Twitter this week: Leaders, Are You Developing Your Employee’s Super Powers? 4 Problems With Our Brains That Cause Us To Make Dumb Decisions [link] # psychology #decisionmaking #. 10 Key Lessons On Leading Virtual Teams Effectively by @ tnvora [link] # leadership #.

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Survey: 68% of CEOs Admit They Weren’t Prepared for the Job

Harvard Business Review

47% said that developing their senior leadership team was surprisingly challenging. Remarked one: “When you become the final decisionmaker, everything changes. ” This signals that something is missing in internal hiring and development processes, and in board management of CEOs.

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The Startling Fact About the Criteria to Make More Effective.

CO2

What does it mean to the organization when you are considering multiple choices to evaluate and each team member is rating each criteria on a 1 to 5 scale. So, had we not calibrated between each member of the team what our numeric scale represented we would not even have a glimmer of hope in understanding each decision makers point of view.

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Criteria for a Critical Decision

CO2

What does it mean to the organization when you are considering multiple choices to evaluate and each team member is rating each criteria on a 1 to 5 scale. So, had we not calibrated between each member of the team what our numeric scale represented we would not even have a glimmer of hope in understanding each decision makers point of view.

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Writing a Rejection Letter (with Samples)

Harvard Business Review

You and Your Team Series. While we certainly have no doubt about the superior quality of your team or that you could deliver on this skillfully we decided to use this project to expand our bench of development partners and, since this is part experiment for us, this was a good opportunity to do that. Business Writing.

Letter 10
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Make Your Innovative Idea Seem Less Terrifying

Harvard Business Review

This might have backfired with an executive team that wasn’t as competent and as open to discussion, or if Sanofi had gone about it in a different way — in either case, they could have reacted as if she were going behind their backs.