Conall

mobile logo
Title Image

Featured Insights

By Propulo Consulting

By Julia Borges, Maggie Carey, and Madison Hanscom ‘Tis the season to stay engaged and safe in the workplace. In the midst of the bustle of the holidays, it’s easy for employees to get distracted, which can lead to unwanted incidents or fatalities during such a jubilant time of the year. Even though it might not happen to everyone, it is possible that some employees feel a sense of burnout or distraction around the end of the year. Heightened emotions and the overall chaotic environment of the holiday season also have the ability to exhaust employees both physically and mentally. When

READ MORE

By Eric Michrowski HBR recently published a study on Transformational Leaders. One of the conclusions that caught my eye was that most of the leaders that had successfully transformed an industry or business had very diverse backgrounds (think Amazon's Bezos who came from a Finance background). They mention the importance of leaders that come with outside experience and that are brought into a business to drive change. Throughout my career and consulting experience I have always advocated the value of incorporating very diverse backgrounds and creating development paths within businesses that support such diversification. Regrettably, most companies do the very opposite. They

READ MORE

By Eric Michrowski I was recently meeting with the CEO of a professional services firm that has developed a business model, which is quietly disrupting his industry. Founded in a dislike in the conventional business model that his competitors have been reinforcing for decades, he has changed a few key variables to transform the service offer, namely: - Shifting from “à la carte” pricing to “all-inclusive” value-based pricing;- “Leaning” the end-to-end service offer to create a highly repeatable, optimized and even-loaded delivery mechanism at a significantly lower cost – while this limits his target audience, it provides significant value to the segments

READ MORE

In 2001, David Spade’s magnum opus ‘Joe Dirt’ was released, to critical fanfare (11% at Rotten Tomatoes) and commercial success ($27M in domestic gross). A coming of age tale about the eponymous antihero (played by Spade), the film tells the story of a young man whose parents had a mullet wig surgically grafted to his head because his skull failed to completely form, before leaving him behind at the Grand Canyon at the tender age of only eight years old. Joe would go on to grow up in a plethora of foster homes, each with a series of misadventures more

READ MORE

When I was about 10 years old, my father gave me my first pocketknife. It was a small one – just two blades, nothing more, and I chose to get a green one, rather than the traditional red. Within about a week, I had cut myself closing the small blade. Today, I carry a Leatherman multitool that’s indispensable in most small work around the house. Again, I’ve opted to keep it (mostly!) simple, so my Leatherman isn’t the super-complex one – it has two knives (serrated and smooth), a file, the multi-tool pliers (pliers, needlenose, wire cutter), a saw blade, scissors, a

READ MORE

By Eric Johnson When embarking on a process improvement journey, it is critical to first know the details of the root causes, your resources skills and constraints, and most importantly your culture's ability to thrive under the new changes. Process Improvement initiatives often arise out of a number of different situations as a solution to issues organizations currently face. The initiative may be an idea of an executive that has prior process improvement experience or exposure to process improvement information or conversations, and ascribes to capturing those benefits for her area. Or it may originate from a middle manager who has participated

READ MORE