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Running A Successful Turnaround: Final Thoughts

August 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized, change, operations, tools

I have been working on a series of posts detailing my thoughts on how I would fix or turn around a business operation. We’ve talked about financials, how to get a handle on your customers and understanding youremployees in an effort to get them more engaged, and finally, we talked about processes. When you walk into a situation [...]

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Running A Successful Turnaround: Process Improvements

August 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized, change, management, operations, tools

I have been working on a series of posts detailing my thoughts on how I would fix or turn around a business operation. I would take a stab at a scenario an MBA candidate/intern threw at me. So far we have talked about financials, how to get a handle on your customers and understanding your employees [...]

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Running a Successful Turnaround: The Employee View

July 25th, 2010 · No Comments · change, leadership, management, operations, tools

I have been working on a series of posts detailing my thoughts on how I would fix or turn around a business operation. I would take a stab at a scenario an MBA candidate/intern threw at me. So far we have talked about financials and how to get a handle on your customers. Its all about [...]

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5 Simple Career Management Lessons

July 17th, 2010 · No Comments · career, coaching, management, networking, personal branding, tools

The Keys To Unlocking Your Most Successful Career by Joann S. Lublin from the July 6, 2010 WSJ online is possibly the best article I have read all year about managing your career. Great, great stuff. Five simple lessons. 1. Network effectively. I already love Lublin. You’ve seen me rant about this before. She recommends [...]

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Running a Succesful Turnaround: The Financials

July 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments · accounting, change, leadership, management, operations, tools

Last week, I started as series of posts detailing my thoughts on how I would fix or turn around a business operation. Inspired by a promising MBA student that is doing an internship with us, I thought I would take a stab at a scenario she threw at me. This week, let’s talk about financials. [...]

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Running A Successful Turnaround: An Overview

June 30th, 2010 · No Comments · career, change, customer service, leadership, management, operations, tools

This continues our series on how to run a successful turnaround – or – The Mike Lally Way. Maybe we’ll just call this RAST. Running A Successful Turnaround. The Mike Lally Way is just way too lame. Today, I will take a holistic, high-level view and in future posts, I will look at each element [...]

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Case Study

June 27th, 2010 · No Comments · change, finance, leadership, management, operations, sales, tools

We have an intern working with us. She is getting her MBA. She still has that new car smell on her. By that I mean – she hasn’t become bitter and jaded. She is still full of the possibility that most business problems are easy to fix. If only we applied ourselves. She’s taken to [...]

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10/20/30

February 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment · tools

Stealing this from Guy Kawasaki. 10/20/30 is/are his rules for presentations. 10 slides – no more. 20 minutes – leave room for discussion 30 point font – anything smaller and you have too much on the page There – now I have this captured so I don’t have to go look up his original post [...]

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Using Social Media to Manage Your Career

December 17th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Twitter, career, linkedin, marketing, networking, personal branding, social networking, tools

Last night I gave an updated version of my “Managing Your Online Identity: Using Social Media in Your Job Search” presentation to Hannah Morgan’s Career Club in Canandaigua, NY. It is really aimed at anyone who needs to manage their career not just job seekers. Using Social Media In Your Job Search V3.0 Dec 2009 [...]

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Gen X Loves Social Networking

May 12th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Facebook, Twitter, linkedin, marketing, networking, social networking, tools

Just read the latest from Penelope Trunk. Do you know who is using social media? Gen X. The average Twitter user is in their 30s. The median age of LinkedIn is 40. The majority of people who are joining Facebook right now are over 35. This is because Gen X wants to meet new people [...]

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