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that will likely never change.
But other segments of the population (especially
millennials) seem to be increasingly looking to
the broader employee experience in addition to
compensation to make career choices.
Corporations attuned to this dynamic will have a
distinct advantage over those not so attuned in
the never-ending “hunt for talent.”
Conclusion: Marshaling the right re-
sources
Today’s corporate executive faces a number of
potential threats and opportunities that will de-
termine the corporate winners and losers in the
coming years.
From force multipliers to information advantage,
the Marshals have shown how innovative orga-
nizational efficiencies can consistently produce
stellar results.
Many of its trademark techniques, which have
come from tough front-line experience, bear con-
sideration from the corporate world:
• Employee selection techniques like extreme
no-win scenarios and related lines of ques-
tioning to find the right kind of people for the
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job.
Economically testing and fine-tuning strategic
concepts before undertaking widespread and
expensive projects increases the probability
of a successful project portfolio activity.
Employing operational leverage rather than
financial leverage to improve risk-adjusted
profitability.
Leveraging data and various forms of analy-
ses, both standard and alternative, to better
inform strategy and operations.
Improving the employee experience to attract
and retain dedicated and motivated employ-
ees.
USMS (Image courtesy of the U.S. Marshals
Service)
Author profiles
Lenny DePaul, U. S. Marshals Service, Retired
Chief Inspector
Joseph Calandro, Jr., is a Managing Director at
PwC, Fellow of the Gabelli Center for Global Se-
curity Analysis at Fordham University and author
of Applied Value Investing (NY: McGraw-Hill,
2009). He is the corresponding author and can
be contacted at: [email protected]
Eric Trowbridge is a Director at PwC
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