Consulting Matters

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Here’s a glance at this episode… [0:02:06] - What you might be doing wrong when it comes to Website Messaging [0:04:19] - What to focus on to make a huge impact on your audience [0:09:56] - The World is evolving, but are you? [0:16:11]

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Parade of Hyperinflationists, All Wrong. On the other hand, all the people who said deflation would not happen or that hyperinflation would happen first were dead wrong: Total credit declined, consumer credit declined, mortgage credit declined, housing prices and asset prices were smashed, and even the CPI declined. Please stop.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

If a critic criticizes and is wrong, rarely does anybody go back and blame the critic. You have to live with the consequences of potentially being wrong. Deciders sometimes get fired for being wrong. Any time a decision needs to be made, two roles often emerge. There’s the role of the decider versus the role of the critic.

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Seth Godin Blog

APRIL 15, 2017

Are there any other options for people who seek to innovate?

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Markovitz Consulting

AUGUST 3, 2021

Too many meetings always bespeak poor structure of jobs and the wrong organizational components. As Peter Drucker wrote, meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. While they’re a necessary evil, they should be rare: “But above all, meetings have to be the exception rather than the rule.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 14, 2020

What has gone wrong - why don't people live that ideal state. Think through your beliefs around what has gone wrong. What went wrong is the un-acknowledged and misunderstood experience of shame. There are three parts of your stance: What's the ideal state - what does individual and/organization health look like.

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Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

On this episode of the Enough Already podcast, I have a powerful conversation with my former Disney colleague André Martin, PhD , who is a consultant who has helped some of the biggest consumer brands like Target, Nike, Google, and many more and the author of the book, Wrong Fit, Right Fit: Why How We Work Matters More than Ever.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2020

Using the collective “we” might increase misconduct, according to research.

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The Management Centre

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Being passive-aggressive means that you are not respecting yourself by being honest about your point of view, but you are also showing subtly that the other person is in the wrong. Being assertive at work can be really hard, and this is something many people struggle with. It also helps to earn others’ respect and boost your self-esteem.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 21, 2023

A positive strengths-based approach to change Too often, change processes begin with what is wrong. A constant focus on what is wrong not only diverts attention from what can be but is draining. Consider a scenario where one employee is always asking about what is wrong and needs to be fixed.

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MishTalk

MAY 18, 2016

Today, Nate Silver confessed that he screwed up. Well, sort of. While Silver admitted an error, he also tried to … Continue reading →

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

But large projects rarely go in a straight line, and often that planning doesn’t take into account key assumptions, and the execution goes far in the wrong direction before the need for changes are recognized.

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Seth Godin Blog

MARCH 10, 2024

In team settings, then, it’s much more helpful to say, “I prefer this over that,” instead of, “this is wrong.” ” Some things are wrong. There are standards that we can all accept when it comes to utility, efficiency and even beauty.

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MishTalk

MAY 14, 2015

GDPNow vs. Blue Chip GDPNow Factors GDPNow Contributions to Growth Where Might the Fed be Wrong? Following yesterday's dismal retail sales report, inquiring minds may be interested in the Atlanta Fed GDPNow Forecast. The GDPNow model forecast for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the second quarter of 2015 was 0.7

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 19, 2023

All these unsolicited offers have one thing in common: They want to help me because I'm running my business “wrong.” These offers are wrong. It's not even noon. ” They—and only they—can help me run it right. All of these are the equivalent of cold calls. I don't know these people or what they can do.

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On the Brink Podcast

MARCH 6, 2023

Far too often, they find themselves focused on the wrong things from how to respond to emails to how to get tasks completed on time. In this podcast, you'll hear from an amazing thinker who has tackled strategic challenges in companies all over the world. Listen and learn!

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 29, 2021

Keep track of the number of questions you got right and wrong in Excel. Keep going back to the questions you got wrong. Make sure you bookmark, note down, or somehow keep track of the question you get wrong. Even if you get the answer wrong and you understand your mistake, make sure to save that exercise.

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Seth Godin Blog

MARCH 28, 2024

If you’re not willing to consider that you’re wrong, then, in the words of a Dan Dennett, you’re a spectator, not a participant. If we’re going to come together and invest the time in conversation, in research or in analysis, we should begin by understanding what would be required for you or I to change our minds.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 14, 2023

We all need to write something first, even if it's “wrong.” ” Wrong isn't the problem—writers can fix what's wrong once they see the words on the page. (I The more blocks you collect, the easier it is to see when and where to use them. Yes, I credit Jerry in my book!)

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Rick Conlow

AUGUST 29, 2021

Identify what went wrong. Before doing anything else, make sure you understand where you went wrong. So, once you know a mistake has been made, do your best to identify what went wrong, acknowledge how you were at fault, and all the details that made this mistake what it is. Yes, acknowledge that you were wrong.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

One of the reasons tools don't help you work better is that they can't identify what's wrong. They might help you see that something is wrong, but not what. (The managers want to know when the teams will finish certain features in the short term.). How can they plan for six months at a time? When will certain features be done?

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The Consultants Peer Group

AUGUST 15, 2023

It's like a game of Jenga, one wrong move and the whole tower comes tumbling down. The same goes for email threads, one wrong "REPLY ALL" and the whole thread becomes a never-ending game of ping-pong. You have seen a fair share of emails that have gone awry due to the misuse of the "REPLY ALL" option. Yikes, what just happened?

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 31, 2022

It was quite common for them to get the following feedback: “Stop apologizing when you did nothing wrong!”. Don’t tell girl athletes what they did wrong. In contrast, I got yelled at a lot on my high school football team for what I did wrong. Now, if you’re a woman, you’ll have an obvious self-serving interest in this topic.

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Seth Godin Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

When you’re imagining what went wrong in that conversation yesterday, you are living in yesterday. When you’re reading a good historical novel, you might be there and then. When you’re checking your email, you are in a conversation between and among, over there, not here.

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Action Plan

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Something is wrong.” “I And I promise you, things went wrong all the time! Well, nothing wrong with any of those, but without mastering acceptance, none of those things really work. Now, of course, it’s natural to react to things like this with frustration, anger or even despair. But it’s not natural to argue with reality.

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Seth Godin Blog

MARCH 24, 2024

That’s because possibility is the art of being willing to be wrong. Exploring the possibilities in moments of high velocity almost certainly ensures that costs will increase, reliability will be impacted and you’ll miss deadlines. It’s exploration. It’s far easier to explore on foot than it is on a high-speed train.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 5, 2021

Notice that you will be wrong half the time. You will still be wrong 20% of the time. You'll still be wrong 10% of the time.). You would be wrong about half the time.) I'll use his slides as inspiration when I walk through an example below. First, let me set the stage. That might be the feature set or the product. ).

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 23, 2020

If customer service scores say customers are thrilled, but the last five customers you spoke with hate you and your company, something is wrong. If sales and retention are on target, but you have no cash left in the bank, something is wrong. The best CEOs know when something is wrong. They won’t know what is wrong.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 14, 2021

Sometimes, although your heart is in the right place and your intentions are pure, you will get your first project or task wrong. One thing consulting has taught me is that, what you think is “right” at the time may be completely wrong for that certain task or may not necessarily be what your manager was looking for.

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2023

But it’s also a problem, because it puts a premium on being right, and creates a fear of being wrong. But innovation–in the arts, in science, in business–is all about being willing to be wrong, because innovation requires missteps. They’re not a bug, they’re a feature. As a result, the incentives shift.

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Seth Godin Blog

APRIL 8, 2023

It’s not easy to say, “I was wrong.” Instead of “I was wrong,” perhaps it’s useful (if less satisfying to others seeking victory) to say, “It’s time to make a new decision based on new information.” Strong opinions, tightly held and loudly proclaimed.

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The Management Centre

JUNE 2, 2023

Sometimes it can feel like saying no to the wrong person at the wrong time will put your position on the line. One of the biggest challenges participants talk about on our management training courses is ‘I just don’t know how to say no.’ Not surprisingly work can start to suffer with missed deadlines and poor quality outputs.

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Makarios Consulting

JUNE 28, 2023

Pivoting at the wrong time or in the wrong way can be, in a word, disastrous. Pivoting in business is a difficult decision for leaders. On the other hand, pivoting at the right time in the right way can inject tremendous energy into a business, propelling the company upward with terrific thrust.

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Granite Leadership Strategies

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Too often, employers hire the wrong people for their business because of the perceived need to hire someone right away. Consider More Than One Job Category If you cannot seem to find the right talent, you may be looking for the wrong type of employee. You probably think good talent is hard to find for your business these days.

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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

If you’re eager to be proven wrong, learning is delightful. It can be something prosaic–I learned last week that I’d been preheating my dosa pan for too long, and that’s why (paradoxically) they weren’t becoming crispy. Years of consistent behavior overturned in one moment.

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 8, 2021

I felt like things were “wrong” when they didn’t make sense. I no longer see the lack of common sense as “wrong” (okay, I confess I still do, but I keep it to myself… except when writing an article about it and sending it to 100,000 people :)) but rather as just “true.”. For example, I’m writing this email from an airplane.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Preferably, you will take some logical steps towards improving in the areas where you went wrong, but don’t be too faddish with this. If they say it’s wrong, it probably is. If they have the wrong end of the stick, you can point it out. Reading Time: 4 minutes. Everyone was new once. However, feedback can be very direct.

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