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The quotes below were selected from some of the testimonials we received from our clients
about our strategy consulting, organizational development, executive coaching, the Executive Round-Table and our executive level
workshops.
"This is to confirm that my work with Dov Gordon supports my recommendation that
he would be an asset to any team or organization for which he worked.
"He is a life-long learner, enmeshed in sophisticated consulting practices...
and has a wonderful disposition to work with colleagues and clients."
-- Alan Weiss, called "One of the most highly respected independent
consultants in the country," by the New York Post and author of 26 books
including the best selling "Million DollarConsulting."
www.summitconsulting.com
See entire letter here. PDF format.
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[Emphases added]
"...I decided to invite Dov to facilitate a process of strategic planning with
our executive committee. This followed the immense disappointment of a
failed strategic process which we conducted with one of the leading companies in
the field...
"The process has delivered several important outcomes. The main one is a
clear and concise Strategy Document with defined targets for the next three
years. That was our aim...
"When we began the process with Dov, we were evaluating an opportunity in a new
strategic direction. As we proceeded, it became apparent that what
appeared as a business opportunity, was in fact a distraction - it did not
support our emerging strategy.
"I think the clarity... we developed as a result of the process prevented us
from making a big strategic mistake.
"In his quiet methodical way, Dov has had a huge impact on our organization...
I recommend him highly."
-- Paul Steiner, CEO Kapro Industries Ltd.
www.Kapro.com
See entire letter here. PDF format.
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הי דוב,
בהמשך לשיחה שלנו ברצוני להעלות על הכתב את התרשמותי מהתהליך האסטרטגי שעברנו
בהנחייתך , המתודולוגיה של ניתוח אסטרטגי ע"י ניתוח של השווקים בהם אנו פועלים
והמוצרים אותם אנו מוכרים ויעדי החברה היא מתודולוגיה טובה ובהירה שעזרה להנהלה
לקבל החלטות נכונות.
אחד הדברים שאני התרשמתי לטובה היא הבהירות של השלבים ושל התוצאה שאליה הגענו ביחד
, אני מאמין שהתהליך נתן לנו כהנהלה יכולת ראיה והבנה טובה יותר של היעדים שלנו
והיכולת שלנו להשיג את היעדים הללו ע"י התמקדות בתחומים החשובים לחברה , היכולת
שלנו להכיר כי החברה צריכה להתמקד בתחום אחד של מוצרים ולא להתפרס למספר תחומים
תעזור להנהלה לבצע החלטות נכונות יותר ולחלק את המשאבים טוב יותר.
אני מקווה שאת התוצאות של המפגשים הללו נראה בעתיד הקרוב .
תודה ולהתראות
בן יוסף רפי – סמנכ"ל תפעול
Vice President of Operations, Kapro Industries
www.Kapro.com
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“Dov, I attended your seminar
Strategy… and
Other Corporate Drivel because I believe that the company I recently
joined lacks a strategy or any clear direction. What I didn’t know, though, was
how to broach the subject with my colleagues nor what we should be doing about
it.
“At the seminar you provided me with tools that I
can use to both help others see more clearly what is missing and then help guide
us to correct our course.
“Thank you very much.”
-- Senior Manager at a large,
multi-billion dollar public U.S. corporation with operations in the U.S.,
Europe, Middle East and Asia.
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"You know, Dov, speaking with you is like mental chiropractory. You kind
of walk out in alignment..."
-- Dave Greenfield, Editor of
Network Computing Magazine and two time
winner of the American Society of Business Editor's award for best features.
Dave is also the author of "The Essential Guide to Optical Networking," the
first book to explain optical technologies in plain, simple language.
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EXAMPLE OF CLIENT RESULTS:
An executive called asking for time management training for his
team. He felt that his team members
were reacting to pressures rather than effectively prioritizing.
We often receive calls for training. However, training only helps
if the problem is skills related. When other factors cause the
problem, training is a waste.
A few well placed questions revealed that
this executive had never actually set clear
objectives and performance standards for his team. (Prior to this
conversation, he thought he had! This, too, is common.) We
decided that the place to begin was not in effective time management, but in
articulating clear expectations.
Over a period of several weeks, we worked with his team to clarify their
strategy and develop innovative improvements to their business model.
Finally, this was followed by several months of teleconferences to support them
with the implementation.
Our client noticed immediate improvement in their behavior and
performance - plus, an almost immediate jump in revenues!
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"Dov has helped me focus on the
issues my business needs to address in order to proceed towards our goals and
become more successful.
"He has also helped me define and recognize these goals,
focusing on what I really want and what I really want to provide to my clients
and employees. His guiding questions help me see alternative possibilities for
how to run the business more efficiently and to reach these goals. Through this,
Dov has helped me make a shift in my mind as to how to look at all issues, be
they big or small, changing my perspective and allowing for clearer thinking and
more effective decision-making."
-- Charlie Kalech, Owner at J-Town
Productions Ltd.
www.j-town.co.il
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"Our firm was struggling to find
the right target audience to market our services. This
would have a major effect on how we designed our
web site – not a small investment in
time and resources – and our approach for turning
business contacts into closed contracts.
"With some coaching, Dov helped us identify the
real decision makers and arrive at a
concise, convincing business case. This in turn
helped us design a campaign that would
set us apart from our competition.
"Without a question, the help we received in the
beginning not only allows us to get the
most from our limited marketing resources but
also helps us to maximize our leads by
speaking the right language to the right
audience."
-- Joe Gelb
President, Suite Solutions
www.suite-sol.com
Former CTO of Live Linx, Ltd.
See letter here. PDF format.
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"It was a mind-boggling day. I am taking a whole new insight on human
psychology back from this event."
--Daniel Taylor, HR Manager, Sandvine Israel about our new "Advanced
Management Skills" workshop.
_________ “I wanted Dov to give
my staff a time management lecture to help them set their own priorities - but
he asked some good questions and then wisely concluded that what was needed
wasn’t time management training at all. We needed to help them better see the
overall business objectives and relate these objectives to their own functions.
“Dov interviewed our employees, created a customized
workshop and follow-through program which brought out a new depth of ideas,
insights and understanding amongst our staff. This he did in a thorough, quiet
and undramatic way (unlike many of the famous noisy American industrial
trainers) and the results seem to be extremely positive.
Just one of the ideas
that Dov gave us is already producing 10 – 15% top line growth!
PS - I am not a relative, and not even American!
-- Nat Gordon, Owner, Marksman International
Personnel Ltd. www.marksman.co.il
_________ "Dov Gordon is an
excellent business concepts teacher. He helped us in getting up to speed on
various useful concepts in business orientation (such as identifying what type
of company we represent), business strategy, and end-user focused marketing. Dov
is able to take a complex concept and boil it down to its essentials, while
maintaining the capacity to apply the full concept in detail to your company.
I'd recommend him as an excellent business coach and advisor for your Company.
"Dov's ideas really opened our eyes in terms of planning
and 'strategy'. He is professional and pleasant to work with, and overall an
important resource for anyone in the driver's seat of a company.
-- Yaakov Snyder, CEO, Highmarks, Inc.
www.highmarks.com
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"Dov Gordon is the founder and facilitator of the
Best Practices in Consulting Study Group, an international teleconference
roundtable dealing with the theory and practice of consulting.
"He has done an
amazing job of keeping the group consistent, focused and on task for the last
year and a half. This is no small feat considering the fact that we are all on
different international time zones, several members speak English as a second
language, and we are all experienced consultants and business owners with our
own way of doing things.
"Furthermore, Dov
has attracted a top flight group of consultants whose clients include numerous
Fortune 500 companies such as McDonalds, Pepsico, Motorola and others. Amongst
our members we count a past columnist for Harvard Business School's Working
Knowledge, a consultant ranked as one of the top 26 speakers in the US, a
member of the Million Dollar Consultant™ Hall of Fame and commercially published
authors.
"Dov has
established himself as a strong leader who can also build consensus when
necessary. As a result of his leadership, we have all been able to learn and
improve."
-- Simma
Lieberman, President,
Simma
Lieberman Associates
www.simmalieberman.com
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"Thank you, Dov. You put a tremendous amount of time and talent into
addressing common management problems and issues.
"I'm all fired up and ready to try out the tools and concepts you have developed
and presented. I'll let you know how I get on.
--David Morris, Chairman and Founder, Lema'an Achai, an award-winning
private social welfare organization.
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EXAMPLE OF CLIENT RESULTS:
A client quickly fired an employee who was no longer performing.
Prior to engaging our services, over half a year passed with the
employer trying desperately to improve the employee's performance,
including giving him a raise! We helped our client realize that the wrong
person
will always be the wrong person, no matter how well paid. His business would
survive without this guy.
The client quickly found a more suitable employee and the former
employee found a job he really enjoys.
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"Dear Friends,
"I
would like to recommend to you my personal coach and friend, Dov Gordon. I
cannot praise him enough for the help he has given me in organizing all
aspects of life and for contributing to my career advancement since I became
Head of Nephrology.
"We in medicine who take on leadership roles do
not as a rule receive specific training and learn as we go along. I learnt
from Dov that we can make life much easier for ourselves by self management,
time management, prioritizing and delegating or not doing at all things that
are not important.
"I believe we can all learn from him and I urge
you to contact him."
--Itzchak N. Slotki MD,
Head, Division of Adult Nephrology at Shaare Zedek Medical Center
in Jerusalem, Israel, in an email to his colleagues.
www.szmc.org.il
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"Dov came highly prepared. He did a fine job keeping our discussions
focused and on track. However his key quality was his ability to listen
and change course when he realized it was required.
"Prior to hiring Dov we thought that as businessmen with successful businesses
we should be able to do this ourselves. When we concluded the strategy
retreat and looked back we agreed that had we met alone, we would have
accomplished but a fraction of what Dov helped us achieve...
"I believe that what we did with Dov on those two days was probably the most
important and valuable step we took at Datamercial all year."
-- Ari Ginsberg, President, Datamercial Inc.
www.datamercial.com
See entire letter here. PDF
format.
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EXAMPLE OF CLIENT RESULTS:
While coaching a CIO who retired from corporate life and
opened his own consultancy he came to understand that he was pursuing the wrong
target market and subsequently, and more successfully, refocused all his
marketing and sales efforts.
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"Firstly, the Executive Round-Table meeting is
efficient. Dov Gordon keeps the conversations focused, on track and
relevant making it a very educational experience.
"Additionally, I am impressed with the caliber
of CEO’s Dov attracts to the meetings. I would gladly consider them friends
and maybe partners for some future business."
-- Yossi Sarudi, CEO, H. Y. Group Ltd.
www.hye.co.il
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EXAMPLE OF CLIENT RESULTS:
A client's market research findings were finally reliable, accurate and useful
because we helped them better understand their research objectives and how
to structure and ask the right kinds of questions.
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"The Executive Round-Table is the tool I always wanted. As CEO, it
sometimes feels lonely at the top. Dov Gordon created a mechanism where I
can meet with executives from various industries and exchange ideas, brainstorm
and learn.
"As an executive I strive to continuously evolve and The Executive Round-Table
is a means to do just that."
-- Dan Rivlin, Managing Director, Kenes International Ltd.
www.kenes.com
“Even the No. 1 law firm in Israel provides
services cheaper than those of Dov Gordon. But the tragic decision that I
shall not forget my whole life – to cut my expenses and “do without” Dov’s
services – cost me $75,000. One lousy month. One lousy decision. A month
that shall haunt me forever. With Dov on board, this tragedy would never
have happened.”
-- A client who didn't follow our advice.
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EXAMPLE OF CLIENT RESULTS:
A client was able to
focus on improving the true leverage points in his
organization. We
conducted interviews with employees on multiple levels,
turning up a number of
previously "un-discussable" issues. We made these
issues discussable and
gave them the attention they required. Improvements
were discernable
immediately and continue adding up over time.
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"I would like to thank you for our conversation. Your methodology of "gentle
probing" with the right questions enabled me to focus on the REAL problems and
issues, and quickly moved the spotlight from the symptoms to the root cause.... I
found your style to be that rare mix of non-confrontational on the one hand, but
uncompromising on the other. Thank you!"
-- Tim Cranko, Managing Director, Novartis, Israel
www.Novartis.com
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EXAMPLE OF CLIENT RESULTS:
A client, an angel investor, was backing a startup company and he asked us to oversee
the marketing. It quickly became apparent that the technology was not
capable of
doing what the founder claimed.
Our client got out of the deal before losing more money.
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"I was extremely impressed with the content, the
structure and the caliber of those who attended. The
Executive Round-Table enables
CEO’s to receive valuable advice from colleagues with varied knowledge and vast experience.
Additionally, the format offers the
networking opportunities that always enhance and broaden one’s vision."
--Tully Speigel, Retired General Manager of
$200,000,000 division of
Tyco Plastics.
Tully joined us at the May 23rd, 2005 meeting.
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Dear Dov,
As current chairman of the Israel group of the IIB (Institute for Independent
Business), I would like to thank you very much for giving a presentation to us
last week.
It was clear from the reaction and the furious note taking that the participants
found this a very important exercise. I spoke with a number of the
participants and all gave very positive comments. In summary, I
heard: “Interesting, useful, something different, helpful, thought provoking.”
Personally, I have already begun to use some of the themes with one of my
existing clients.
With best wishes and good luck,
--Michael Horesh, Accredited Associate of the Institute for
Independent Business and Chairman of the Israel branch.
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"I have been working with Dov for the
past three months. In that time I have improved many of my life and business
skills and feel that I am in a much better position to succeed than I was
previously.
"Dov has helped me develop better
networking and marketing skills and has generally helped me to think more
clearly about what I want and how to get it. Being self-employed, I can get lost
amongst all the details and tasks, but with Dov helping me I have learnt to
prioritise and focus on what matters; my strengths and making the most of what I
already have, and at the same time working to develop further. I think that we
could all benefit from Dov’s clear thinking and insight."
--Eli Shine
www.happyshines.com
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"One of the main questions I had asked myself before joining Dov Gordon's
Executive Round-Table was whether I could afford the time, half a day per month,
and whether the fees could be justified. I now realize that I cannot
afford NOT to be a member of the group."
-- Jeremy Ben David, CEO, Jeremy Ben David & Co. the 6th largest
intellectual property firm in Israel according to Dun & Bradstreet. www.israel-patents.co.il
See entire letter here.
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"...I have already seen value from your insights and I expect to see much more
as I implement the ideas further over the next few months.
"Your Executive
Round-Table is both very interesting and very educational. It is
amazing to see how everyone is dealing with the same problems, but not at the
same time or in the same way -- so we can learn a lot from each other."
-- Ariel Teubal, CEO, Etzmaleh, Furniture for Children Ltd.
www.etzmaleh.co.il
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"Dov has a tremendous amount of street smarts and personal wisdom.
Coaching to executives requires a tremendous amount of sensitivity, business
knowledge, and the ability to ask the right questions. Dov has all of
these."
-- Eric Guth, General Manager, Efrat Networks Inc. www.efratnetworks.com
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"Working with Dov Gordon has certainly made me more money... As a result
of our growth, I will now be hiring another technician. All this during
terrible economic times."
--Sender Schwartz, President, PC Doctors Inc.
See entire letter here.
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"Dov, I appreciate your
coaching and insightful advise. As you can see now, following your
guidance my business has transformed. I now have a staff of teachers
conducting both face-to-face classes and lessons over the phone. This has
freed me up to engage in more strategic activities, allowing the business to
expand.
"I can't thank you enough for enabling this to happen."
--Orly Ganor, Director Ulpan-Or
www.ulpanor.com
_________“I am very, very impressed with The Executive
Round-Table. The environment is fantastic. I gain a lot from my participation,
both when the group discusses the issues that I put on the table and when we
discuss the issues of the other CEO’s… And the way Dov Gordon facilitates the
meetings is amazing!”
-- Mati Herbst,
CEO of Compumat Inc.
www.compumat.biz
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"I enjoyed the opportunity to break from the 'game of business' and be
stimulated with questions and ideas that enhance my thinking in fulfilling my
role of CEO."
--Laurence Rubin, CEO, CableMatrix, speaking about "The Strategic
Planning Wake-Up Call for the Busy CEO" workshop. www.cablemx.com
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"Dov, I very much enjoyed your workshop and I will use your tips and ideas."
-- Yoram Biton, VP Operations, SerVision
www.servision.net
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"במשך תקופת היכרותי עם מר דוב גורדון התרשמתי עמוקות מאישיותו,
מיכולותיו ומהפוטנציאל הגלום בו... והראיה לכך היא שאף אני החלטתי לאחרונה
להיעזר בשרותיו.
"יצוין כי משרדי הינו משרד ותיק ובעל מוניטין רב המייצג, בין היתר,
גופים ממוסדים כגון בנקים, עיריות, רשויות מקומיות, חברות ממשלתיות וכיו"ב."
-- אהרון רשף, עו"ד
See entire letter here.
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"We have no hesitation in recommending Mr. Dov Gordon of The Gordon Group.
The seminar he conducted for our clients on the subject of strategic
planning for executives was thought provoking and stimulating, and certainly
evoked an active response from the participants. Our clients were very
impressed with the seminar."
--Jeff Broide, C.P.A. (Isr.) Broide & Co.
www.broide.com
See entire letter here.
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"I found Dov Gordon's
"Strategic Planning Wake-Up Call" workshop to be thought provoking, well
presented and quite enjoyable.
"I came away with greater clarity of the
challenges I am facing.”
- David
Zwebner, CEO, CommStock Trading Ltd.
www.ecommstock.com
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"בין השאר, דב תרם לי בעניין השיווק של העסק שלי, דרכים להשגת לקוחות חדשים, תכנון
לקראת גידול העסק בעתיד, ניהול זמן, ועוד.
"דב הוא אדם נעים הליכות, בעל יכולת הקשבה בלתי רגילה ללקוחות שלו, בעל תפיסה
מהירה וחדה של הבעיות העומדות על הפרק, ובעל מחשבה יצירתית. דב מוכן לתרום מזמנו גם
מעבר לזמן שהוקצב לפגישות, והכל על מנת לסייע בפתרון בעיות ספציפיות."
-- יוסי מאיר, עו"ד, תל אביב
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"Thought provoking and practical. You convinced
me that there is a better way to approach mission, vision and strategy.”
-- Kevin
Ziv-El, Managing Director of Pioneer Alternative Investments (Israel)
Ltd, Raanana.
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“The Executive Round-Table members challenged some of the most basic assumptions
I had about where I needed to take my business over the next six months. Thanks
to them we’ve made a shift in our approach, and I feel that this was the right
thing to do at just the right time. Thank you, Dov!”
-- Danny Dankner, CEO, ACE
www.ace4sports.com _________ "I believe that every executive needs an
occasional 'wake-up' call and the Strategic Planning Wake-Up Call for the Busy
Executive workshop certainly served this purpose for me."
-- Gil Sudai, Partner, Revenue Traction
www.revenuetraction.com
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“…[Dov's coaching] has resulted in increased sales volume and higher earnings. Dov has also given me duplicable business systems that I have been able to utilize personally and share with my associates…”
- Mordechai Welt, President Sunworld Ltd.
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“…I can’t believe that someone of your tender age has the wisdom that you have. You transcend age and experience!”
- Mark Zober, President, Trumah International
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“…Without [Dov's] coaching, I am certain I would have spent my energies more wastefully, hesitantly and without the results I now have.
Several years ago I consulted with other coaches (from a very prestigious firm) for more than a year. I did not get such good results…”
- Nitsan Gaibel, CEO, Nine Dots Training
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“[Dov’s] professionalism and creative coaching methods helped me move out of a slump and into high productivity. It turned my business around.”
- Osnat Goldman, A Taste of Torah Texts Seminars
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