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Are You Asking Too Much From Your Competency Model?

Larry Sternberg and Kim Turnage, Authors, Managing To Make A Difference: How To Engage, Retain & Develop Talent For Maximum Performance For very good reasons, numerous organizations have implemented a competency model as an important component of their executive development program. That sort of investment in people improves retention and engagement, and it increases a person’s capacity […]

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How to Audit Corporate Culture

Management

Justin Gwin, Risk Advisory Services Manager, Kaufman Rossin Many recent high-profile scandals, such as those at Toshiba, Volkswagen, FIFA, and Wells Fargo, have shown the adverse effect of having a poor corporate culture. Toshiba’s $1.2 billion profit inflation scandal, which occurred over seven years and came to light last summer, was called “the most damaging event for

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Archimedes and the 72 Hour Rule

Entrepreneurship, Management

Aviv Shahar, President, Aviv Consulting What if I told you that 60% of all strategic breakthroughs are lost? Conservative estimates suggest that people in upper management spend as much as 50% of their day in meetings, and nationally there are upwards of 25 million meetings every day in the U.S. But for all the action items,

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Why Doing the Right Thing Can Bring You Success in the Global Marketplace

Leadership, Management, Self Governance, Small Business

Paul A. Dillon, Owner, Dillon Consulting Services LLC This is not a typical business article. I’m not really going to tell you directly that you should be doing the “right thing” in business because it is good for customer relationships, or good for business in the global marketplace, in general—or, even that it will keep

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Does Your Company Have a “Communications Strategy”?

Management

Jack Litewka, Author, The Sophisticated Manager What circumstance is equally irksome to internal staff and external customers, business partners, and shareholders? The answer: Being blind-sided by new policies, new circumstances, changes in plans, and so forth. If your company does not have a near-term, mid-term, and long-term communications plan, it cannot have a Communications Strategy.

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4 Best Practices for Crisis Communications

Management

Jeffrey Hayzlett Crisis communications affects everyone – big and small companies alike. In the past few years, we’ve seen major brands go through a number of crises – from Sea World’s backlash from the movie “Blackfish,” to Chipotle closing some stores due to E.coli concerns, to industry giants like Wells Fargo and their fraudulent accounts scandal.

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Are You Hiding Corporate Knowledge in People’s Mobile Minds?

Business Ops., Management

Rex Conner, Lead Partner & Owner, Mager Consortium The oil & gas industry is just one of many examples of what they call “the big crew change.” They are in the second year of a 7-year stretch in which they are losing 50% of their petro-technical professionals to retirement. If losing a key person or a

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7 Essentials for New Product Success

Management, Strategy

Patrick Henry, Author, Plan Commit Win: 90 Days To Creating A Fundable Startup A lot has been written about the importance of innovation as it relates to product success. Innovation is important as it relates to intellectual property, product differentiation and sustainable competitive advantage. But just building a better mousetrap does not ensure business success. The Importance of

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Is Your Company Misaligned? These 5 Steps Will Get You on the Same Page

Leadership, Management, Strategy

Riaz Khadem Add up all the time wasted doing things that aren’t important in your organization—by you, your direct reports and those reporting to you indirectly. You’ll probably end up with a large number. That number represents your organization’s misalignment. We once facilitated an executive session with a large company that included three levels of

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What We Do Poorly

Leadership

Jeff Thompson, MD, CEO Emeritus and Executive Advisor, Gundersen Healthy System As CEOs we are generally very skilled at strategic planning or operational implementation. Many are great at recruiting and others are superb at building strong teams or diverse partnerships. All of those are very important. But one of the key pieces that many of

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