3 Reasons You Need a Consultant
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Philip Foster
- Jul 2, 2014
- 2 min
Where have all the employees gone?
Cohort (2040)Number in MillionsPercentage 0-19 (too young to work)84.0522%Unemployed42.0411%Employed Full time133.835%Other94.0225%70+...
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Philip Foster
- Jun 30, 2014
- 2 min
4 Steps to Organizational Success | STEP 4: Strategic Planning & Foresight
In simple terms, the Strategic Planning and Foresight process helps an organization to hypothetically stand in the future so that they...
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Philip Foster
- Jun 25, 2014
- 1 min
4 Steps to Organizational Success | STEP 3: Process Improvement
——————– Dr. Philip A. Foster is considered a Thought Leader in Business Operations, Organization and Strategic “The Open Organization” is...
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Philip Foster
- Jan 20, 2014
- 1 min
4 Steps to Organizational Success | STEP 2: Alignment
——————– #2014 #business #Analysis #Leadership #PhilipAFoster #Consulting #BusinessConsulting #StrategicForesight #StrategicPlanning...
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Philip Foster
- Jan 7, 2014
- 2 min
4 Steps to Organizational Success | STEP 1: Analysis
At the end of each year while many are setting New Year’s Resolutions I spend time thinking about much deeper issues. This past holiday...
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Philip Foster
- Dec 19, 2013
- 1 min
4 Steps to Success in 2014
4 Steps to Organizational Success in 2014 | http://www.maximumchange.com #2014 #business #communication #Consulting #BusinessConsulting...
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Philip Foster
- Nov 13, 2013
- 1 min
Welcome to the Meritocracy
——————– #hierarchies #PhilipAFoster #flat #Agile #open #opensource #innovation #Meritocracy #OpenOrganization #topdown #maximumchange
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Philip Foster
- Aug 21, 2013
- 3 min
3 Reasons Your Org Chart is Worthless
First – org charts represent a structure that bottle-necks decision making and limits agility. If you want to see where the problems are...
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Philip Foster
- Aug 16, 2013
- 2 min
The Death of the Manager (the coming extinction)
I was recently involved in a dialogue with some business colleagues on the matter of who is responsible for the strategy and its...
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Philip Foster
- Aug 9, 2013
- 2 min
Finding passion and your WHY in your story
Using my friend’s analogy, my story is layered like an onion. With each layer comes a complexity that makes me who I am. I will begin my...
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Philip Foster
- Jul 24, 2013
- 1 min
From Massive Losses to 36% in Profit in Only 49-days
——————– #Leadership #PhilipAFoster #Consulting #culturalassessment #Administration #culture #assessments #HR #management #Losses...
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Philip Foster
- Jul 22, 2013
- 1 min
When Not Knowing Can Hurt Your Organization
We, as leaders, must understand that focusing on what is in front of us is only half the process of leading. We must be aware of the...
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Philip Foster
- Jul 20, 2013
- 2 min
How Delivering Bad News Can Be A Good Thing.
Recently, I’ve been involved in the purchase of a new home. Because we are moving further into the country we decided to take advantage...
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Philip Foster
- Jul 5, 2013
- 2 min
Organization 3.0 – Embracing Theory in the 21st Century
As a business consultant and professor I am often asked why study theories and systems that are no longer used in modern society. I look...
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Philip Foster
- Oct 6, 2012
- 3 min
Recession and the Aging Workforce
Global models are used to help reduce uncertainty by generating alternative scenarios against baseline forecasts (Hughes & Hillebrand,...
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Philip Foster
- May 24, 2012
- 4 min
The prospect of employment in the year 2020 and beyond
In 1990, Charles Handy predicted in his book “The Age of Unreason” that by the year 2000 there would be less than fifty percent in full...
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Philip Foster
- Apr 9, 2012
- 2 min
Connecting with Culture | What leaders need to know.
As cross-cultural matters become calibrated to a deeper understanding of how important communication and conflict resolution are to a...
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Philip Foster
- Mar 29, 2012
- 2 min
Cultural Conflict Management Styles
Several conflict styles are used to manage conflicts: factual-inductive, axiomatic-deductive, and affective-intuitive (Gudykunst & Kim,...
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Philip Foster
- Mar 29, 2012
- 2 min
Developing a Cultural Hermeneutic to Conflict Resolution
In dealing with conflict, leaders should develop a cultural hermeneutics that assist the leader and organization to function successfully...
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