109: Bain senior partner Sarah Elk, co-author of Doing Agile Right
Strategy Skills iTunes channel episode with Bain senior partner Sarah Elk. - Global leader of Bain's Operating Model practice - Author of Doing Agile Right - Member of Bain's global governance committee for compensation and promotion Doing Agile Right book: https://amzn.to/3fRGNw0 (paid link) "Agile has the power to transform work--but only if it's implemented the right way. For decades business leaders have been painfully aware of a huge chasm: They aspire to create nimble, flexible enterprises. But their day-to-day reality is silos, sluggish processes, and stalled innovation. Today, agile is hailed as the essential bridge across this chasm, with the potential to transform a company and catapult it to the head of the pack. Not so fast. In this clear-eyed, indispensable book, Bain & Company thought leader Darrell Rigby and his colleagues Sarah Elk and Steve Berez provide a much-needed reality check. They dispel the myths and misconceptions that have accompanied agile's rise to prominence--the idea that it can reshape an organization all at once, for instance, or that it should be used in every function and for all types of work. They illustrate that agile teams can indeed be powerful, making people's jobs more rewarding and turbocharging innovation, but such results are possible only if the method is fully understood and implemented the right way. The key, they argue, is balance. Every organization must optimize and tightly control some of its operations, and at the same time innovate. Agile, done well, enables vigorous innovation without sacrificing the efficiency and reliability essential to traditional operations. The authors break down how agile really works, show what not to do, and explain the crucial importance of scaling agile properly in order to reap its full benefit. They then lay out a road map for leading the transition to a truly agile enterprise. Agile isn't a goal in itself; it's a means to becoming a high-performance operation. Doing Agile Right is a must-have guide for any company trying to make the transition--or trying to sustain high agility." #agile #Bain #Bainandcompany
18 Jul 20201h 7min
108: McKinsey's Tim Koller, coauthor of Valuation, leader of McKinsey Corporate Finance practice
Conversation with Tim Koller, a core leader of McKinsey & Company’s Corporate Finance Practice. “WHAT is the most influential contemporary book about the world economy? An obvious choice is Capital in the Twenty First Century, a 696 page analysis of inequality by Thomas Piketty, a French economist. There is another candidate: Valuation, an 825page manual on corporate finance and shareholder value. Some 700,000 copies of it encumber the bookshelves of MBA students, investors and chief executives around the globe…The sixth edition of Valuation, published last year, a quarter of a century after the first, is a reminder of why shareholder value is still the most powerful idea in business and why many criticisms thrown at it are unfair.” – The Economist “A 'how-to' guide for corporate executives who want to get at the unrealized shareholder values trapped in public companies.” ―New York Times “The book's clarity and comprehensive coverage make it one of the best practitioners' guides to valuation.” ―Financial Times
11 Jul 20201h 1min
107: Consulting workshop best practices
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9 Jun 20209min
106: Overall goal of every consulting interaction
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2 Jun 20208min
105: Advanced predictive problem solving (Turquoise Eyes: A Novel about Problem Solving & Critical Thinking)
Turquoise Eyes started off the groundbreaking new genre developed by FIRMSconsulting that combines compelling narrative while teaching problem solving and critical thinking skills. Set after a bank begins implementing a new retail banking strategy, we follow Teresa García Ramírez de Arroyo, a director-general in the Mexican government, who has received some disturbing news. A whistleblower has emailed Teresa with troubling news about a mistake in the loan default calculations and reserve ratios. The numbers do not add up. The Turquoise Eyes: A Novel about Problem Solving & Critical Thinking is available on Amazon. Buy a copy by midnight EST June 10 2020 and receive 1-month complimentary access to the accompanying video course. BUY THE BOOK HERE: https://amzn.to/3bzVa6g To celebrate the launch week for Turquoise Eyes: A Novel about Problem Solving & Critical Thinking, until midnight EST June 10 2020 only, we offer this purchase gift to customers as our way of showing that we're truly thankful that you chose FIRMSconsulting. This is the 1st episode of the accompanying program. To Claim Your Complimentary 1 Month Access to the Accompanying Program: 1) BUY THE BOOK HERE: https://amzn.to/3bzVa6g 2) Reply to this email by midnight EST June 10 2020 with the following: Your Name Your receipt for the book (Kindle, paperback or hardcover) A Mention of Your Review for the above book If you've left a Review, please include a link - we'd love to read it and sincerely appreciate it. Even if you haven't left an Amazon review but only left Goodreads review, your training program 1 month access will still be sent to you! While we cannot require Amazon review to take advantage of our free gift to you, we would certainly appreciate your feedback and it will be a great way to support the book and FC. YOU CAN LEAVE A REVIEW FOR AMAZON HERE: https://amzn.to/3bzVa6g AND HERE FOR GOODREADS: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53252396-turquoise-eyes We look forward to hearing from you! Kris CEO, FIRMSconsulting P.S. Please help us get the word out by sharing the purchase link with friends, family, and colleagues. This purchase gift is limited to the launch week only. Your friends can reach out to us about claiming their launch purchase gift at support@firmsconsulting.com. Thank you in advance!! Some links above are affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/xQqufjwFm9E
26 Mai 202029min
104: How to resign from your job the right way
How can you resign from your job with dignity, compassion, and grace, without burning any bridges with your employer? Here we share simple principles to help you leave your role in a way that leaves a positive impression with your superiors, colleagues, and organization. Do you have a story about resigning? Tell us more with a comment below. ---------- Get access to free training episodes: https://www.firmsconsulting.com/promo SUBSCRIBE TO FIRMSCONSULTING'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL NOW http://bit.ly/Firmsconsultingsubscribe CONNECT WITH FIRMSCONSULTING ON SOCIAL MEDIA https://www.youtube.com/user/firmsconsulting https://www.instagram.com/firmsconsulting/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/firmsconsulting/ https://www.facebook.com/Firmsconsulting/ https://twitter.com/firmsconsulting https://www.pinterest.com/firmsconsulting/ This video is all about how to resign, how to resign from a job, resignation, how to quit, quitting a job, quit a job, leaving on good terms, career, business career, career growth. #howtoresign #howtoresignfromajob #resignation
9 Mai 202018min
103: The secretive world of Samsung, the South Korean tech giant. Geoffrey Cain
Strategy Skills Podcast 103: The secretive world of Samsung, the South Korean Tech Giant. With Geoffrey Cain Access advanced training episodes: http://www.firmsconsulting.com/promo An explosive expose of Samsung, one of the biggest and most secretive companies in the world, as the Korean juggernaut battles Apple and Sony to dominate the world of technology. Seen for decades in tech circles as a fast follower rather than an innovation leader, Samsung today has grown to become a market leader in the United States and around the globe. They have captured one quarter of the smartphone market and have been pushing the envelope on every front. In SAMSUNG RISING: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant that Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech, Geoffrey Cain offers a penetrating look behind the curtains of the biggest company nobody in America knows. Forty years ago, Samsung was a rickety Korean agricultural conglomerate that produced sugar, paper, and fertilizer, located in a backward country with a third-world economy. However, with the rise of the PC revolution, Chairman Lee Byung-chul began a bold experiment: to make Samsung a major supplier of computer chips. The multimillion-dollar plan was incredibly risky but Lee, wowed by a young Steve Jobs, who sat down with the Chairman to offer his advice, became obsessed with creating a tech empire. In SAMSUNG RISING, readers follow behind the scenes as the company fought its way to the top of tech. Today, Samsung employs over 300,000 people (compared to Apple’s 80,000 and Google’s 48,000). The company’s revenues have grown more than forty times from that of 1987 and make up more than 20 percent of South Korea’s exports. It is also one of Apple’s chief suppliers of technology critical to the iPhone, while its own Galaxy phone outsells the iPhone. Yet their disastrous recall of the Galaxy Note 7, with numerous reports of phones spontaneously bursting into flames, reveals the dangers of the company’s headlong attempt to overtake Apple at any cost.
15 Apr 20201h 30min
102: Current crisis = golden opportunity to transform your life
Our clients are often facing crises and catastrophes somewhere in the world. From virus outbreaks to earthquakes, wildfire evacuations and more. And they write to us about their immediate plans to manage the situation. What we find is that they almost always take actions that damage their careers and hurt their lives. They let external factors, the media narrative and their social network influence them to make poor choices that handicap their lives. Often severely. They don't realize that the biggest, fastest and most sustainable way to transform one’s life and career is to leverage a crisis. Don't run from a crisis. Run into a crisis. This is a short episode released on Strategy Skills iTunes channel and YouTube which includes an overview of the full program we released for FC Insiders (StrategyTraining.com/Strategy Training apps). The full program: https://www.strategytraining.com/how-to-manage-a-crises
19 Mar 20207min
