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...first two rounds, teams prepared answers to case questions and were each judged by a representative from one of the five consulting firms that sponsored the event--McKinsey, Bain, Monitor, Oliver, Wyman & Co. and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young...
...back up the contention, Mike Brill, president of BOSTI Associates, has numbers--from 13,000 workplace evaluations by employees and managers at 40 organizations from Lockheed and Ernst & Young to Sun Microsystems and Microsoft, all done over the past six years. In every case Brill asked, How does the physical environment contribute to workers' job satisfaction and performance, both individual and team? "The single most powerful factor," Brill found, "is the ability to concentrate on work without distraction. The second is frequent, informal interactions between workers. These themes need to be balanced." Consider, says Brill, that at least half...
...other form of repackaged management skills. Actually, it's a grab bag of techniques that combine bits of all these with "nuggets of wisdom" from arenas as diverse as football and 12-step programs. Sometimes what a coach does, says Kathleen Phillips, an in-house coach at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, the former management-consulting arm of Ernst & Young, is help a client see a problem--or a problem job--a different way. In that way, say proponents, coaching helps shore up weak points in their employees as well as build on their strengths...
...death may hurt their profits. "It costs us 150% of an annual salary to replace an employee in terms of retraining a new person, the turbulence it causes in a unit and the impact on our client," says Denny Marcel, associate director of the burnout-prevention unit at Ernst & Young. Miller calls the accounting firm, which offers three to five vacation weeks to its 20,000-plus employees, one of the better companies when it comes to lightening the load...
...complete with e-tailer innovations - 360-degree revolving sneakers, watches and clothing - that are just making their way to car-buying sites in the U.S. Problem was, they went through their sizable $120 million stake like a New Mexico clearing blaze. "We wanted everything to be perfect," Swedish cofounder Ernst Malmsten told The Financial Times of the company's marketing- and technology-heavy spending habits. "My mistake has been not to have a counterpart who was a strong financial controller...