Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

APRIL 7, 2023

Tesla has been changing their prices frequently. This week I saw a report that said Tesla’s now hold their resale prices less than other cars due to the rapid changing of their prices. Women’s NCAA Championship Draws Record Crowd & Record Viewers : Damn! The session will be recorded and shared with attendees. Innovation.

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MishTalk

JULY 24, 2014

In my analysis of the Reuters article (see Ukraine Rebel Commander Admits Having BUK Missiles; Damning Contradictions? ), I point out considerable discrepancies in what Reuters author Anton Zverev wrote and actual quotes Reuters presented. Damning Contradictions Khodakovsky neither admitted nor denied the rebels had Buks. Wasn’t there?

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The Fearless Marketer

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

So P-Os are often damned if they do and damned if they don’t. If you happen to realize you’re a P-O and are determined to change, you’ll run into a paradoxical barrier. As a P-O, you’ll attempt to make changes in the style of a P-O. However, if this is a serious issue for you, I’m not really qualified to help you change.

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Jerry Fletcher

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

That will change. The sneezing makes it hard to concentrate. Two nights and two days without power with temperatures below freezing in a hundred-year ice storm will leave you cold. Even when I found a friend’s couch to surf on I was still cold. Even when she produced a stew that I’d write home about I was still chilly. Of course, I had none.

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The Fearless Marketer

JULY 16, 2018

Heck, it took me all that time to get past my resistance to writing that damn book! I want to write this damn thing. What’s changed? Here’s what my mind used to say: “Yeah, that’s a great idea for my second book! Let me think about it for awhile.” Then a day or two later, “No, that idea stinks, gotta find a better idea.”.

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The Fearless Marketer

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The solution is to change the habit of thinking, of course! After all, if it was easy, you’d change your thinking in an instant and just get on with it, wouldn’t you? And if you don’t have one, the chances of this working decrease dramatically. But more likely, some resistant thoughts are going to pop into your head first.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 26, 2023

So I wrote and changed the order of the pieces of the workshop. I started calling the consulting book the “damn” book. I am thrilled to announce a book birthday: Successful Independent Consulting: Relationships That Focus on Mutual Benefit. People often ask me how long it takes me to write a book. See Manage It!

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Kai Davis

OCTOBER 26, 2020

It’s not impossible, but it’s damn hard. They say, “I need to find an expert who understands the problem we’re facing and can help us change our current situation.” But they aren’t an expert in solving the problem they’re facing, so the information they share with you is incomplete. That means that your proposal is, at best, a guess.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Second, problems tend to persist because more time is devoted to assigning blame than to solving the damn problem. So, after the initial crisis has passed, you want to do an analysis of what happened, what can be learned from it, and what systemic changes can be made to prevent the same problem from ever occurring again.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Alternative 2 is where you get more requirements way into Integration and then you cut Test short because you cannot tolerate more change and you have to ship the damn thing. Capitalization is especially important for internal work. You might have seen internal charge-backs of money if you work in IT. 4 hours is 10% of 40 hours.

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Rod Burkert

MARCH 5, 2019

Several people emailed me to say they found last week’s conversation about getting more done by changing up their routine to be really helpful. (I As the name implies, long form is a long newsletter (word-count be damned!), Frankly, I think it’s too much damn work. I love the feedback!) On to this week. 2 – Curated.

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The Fearless Marketer

APRIL 1, 2019

The purpose of humor is to change/alter/modify the state of the person reading your email (or other marketing materials). To get you to actually read the damn things. Quick, answer this question: “When you think of a stereotypical salesperson, what do they sell?”. Scroll down to see the answer virtually everyone gives. Used cars right?

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 18, 2014

FBI Director, James Comey, an Obama appointment, does not give a damn what the Constitution says. I suggest we need a cultural change from the top down starting with a president who understands and respects the Constitution. But the place they are leading us is one we shouldn’t go to without careful thought and debate."

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MishTalk

JUNE 19, 2014

But chameleons like Merkel can change their colors at a moments notice. Cameron banked on the fact that objections of a key country (Germany, France, Italy, UK) are typically not overridden (actual votes be damned). Merkel quickly changed her tune, as she always does in such circumstances. It was a fool''s pledge.

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The Fearless Marketer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

No, I was absorbed in trying to change the rapids – process the rapids, fight the rapids, reason with the rapids, or even justify the rapids. No, I was absorbed in trying to change the rapids – process the rapids, fight the rapids, reason with the rapids, or even justify the rapids. “I I should be upset, damn it!”.

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The Management Centre

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The outlook is a bit on the bleak side, with damning reports from the UN on UK austerity highlighting a disconnect between policy and reality. This is going to need transformational change, and new approaches – not just cost-cutting. But such change is also going to need specialist skills, new insights and new ways of working.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 14, 2013

when you know damn well that you have to be “on” in a few moments. Finally, they would stop talking and ask us for our recommendations. Marv would then calmly stand up, walk up to a flipchart, and create an approach to help solve their problem. It was always both original and brilliant. And the clients knew it. Your anxiety takes over.

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Martinka Consulting

APRIL 10, 2015

Some of the books chapters are: A letter to my daughter as she becomes eligible for a Florida learners permit (unless I can get the law changed). How they didn’t “interrogate the waiter about whether the chicken contained steroids or was allowed to range freely or was executed humanely; they just ordered the damn chicken.”.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 21, 2016

ECB President Mario Draghi attempted to talk the Euro lower and the market higher today in a lengthy one hour press conference following his decision to not change change interest rates. How that's supposed to cause inflation remains a mystery given that it's not done a damn thing yet. Will it stay there? Why should it?

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Rod Burkert

JULY 18, 2018

One way of doing the latter is by specializing in a niche and being so damn good at it that you can’t be ignored. I don’t want to commit myself, change my entire business model, and later find out I made a mistake.”. Second, there’s no need to change your entire business model. And if you’re new to the blog, welcome aboard.

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Management Consulted

JULY 31, 2016

All of a sudden, we were stuck not knowing whether or not we should change our flights and just screw the mountains or to proceed as planned. I looked at a bunch of scenarios, didn’t come up with good options, and we scrapped the idea of changing plans. It was 5:45am on a Wednesday in June this year.

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MishTalk

MARCH 12, 2015

Damn that bad weather! Bloomberg Consensus The Bloomberg Econoday Consensus Is amusing as well. Then again, This [retail sales] report points to a surprisingly bigger weather impact on spending activity than previously thought. The retail sales consensus was +0.3%. Actual sales were -0.6%. When does it end?

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The iOS 7 nausea can be partially mitigated by changing some settings, which we’ll discuss below, but with downgrading to iOS 6 now disabled Apple has left many customers high and dry. Initially, the complaints were dismissed, but closer scrutiny reveals the complaints are valid. How to prevent iOS 7 nausea.

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MishTalk

JULY 24, 2014

But Brussels steps in and demands Google change its ways. Satisfied customers be damned. Currently, a user who wants to buy coffee through Google is systematically given Google Shopping links in addition to "natural link results" at the expense of competitors such as Kelkoo Twenga. This constitutes "preferential treatment".

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Consultant Ninja

JUNE 24, 2009

your damn article so making sense. The client most of the time however isn't ready or doesn't want to admit they have to make the necessary change if you do give them a course of action. A friend of mine is opening up a store in Manhattan - over the weekend we talked about his business plan over beers. June 25, 2009 at 7:03 PM.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Mr Macron insists the changes will win parliamentary approval. “We An overseer will not "multiply" a damn thing except waste! Juncker''s €300 Billion Plan is "Funny Money" I was rather amused yesterday with a post by Pater Tenebrarum on the Acting Man blog : EU Planning to Spend Money It Doesn’t Have. What is the alternative solution?

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 9, 2015

I made slight translation changes for ease in reading, some from Google translate, some from translate.com. In fact, unless one heard the speeches or followed the tweets, it was damn near impossible. Here are the candidates. Quiz statements below are as presented in Spanish newspaper Libre Mercado. This was not an easy quiz.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Dylan Matthews at the Washington Post has a 10-part series called "The Tuition is Too Damn High". Radical Change. Tom sent a link to a Slate article The MOOC That Roared , subtitled " How Georgia Tech’s new, super-cheap online master’s degree could radically change American higher education ". Pension benefits. Fundraising.

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Rod Burkert

JANUARY 1, 2019

As it relates to what I want to do, I want to change lives by providing ridiculous amounts of value to my audience. Ahhh … the smell of a New Year … 365 days of nothing but possibilities in front of us. My first practice is to replace “I have to” with “I get to” in my personal and professional lives. On to this week. Who’s it for?

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Killer Consultant

MAY 1, 2015

Boy, have things changed. Once our daughter was born, we had someone who needed a massive amount of attention, and did not give a damn about any other plans or responsibilities we might have. Relaunching the KillerConsultant – a personal tale. Once upon a time, there was a consultant who had a family. That would be me.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

I’m disappointed, but I’m going to accept this and make whatever changes are necessary to justify a higher rating next year.” ” “Damn the torpedoes! This rating is wrong, and I’m ready to do whatever it takes to get it changed.” ” I read it. I wasn’t doing a good job.

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Consultant Ninja

JULY 17, 2009

The clients have been happy, but I dont believe in my heart that it will change the client, or lead to incremental EBIT, or make their employees feel more confident about their company. Its not that we destroyed value; its just that we made a stack of slides that made everyone look good, but didnt lead to any change. So Im quitting.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 31, 2015

I suggest volatility is a sign of a trend change as well as underlying weakness. Damn that weather. The Unexpected Strikes Chicago Again It was another disastrous month for the Chicago PMI. Economists expected a bounce back from last month's unexpected dip into negative territory. The actual reading of 42.9 The actual reading of 42.9

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Meanwhile, rest assured that not a damn thing transacts at that rate other than perhaps graft and illegal transactions by bankers and Ukrainian officials selling 25 hryvnias for a dollar. Colonel Cassad reports It Takes 44 Hryvnia to Buy a Dollar in Mariupol. Let''s do some quick math. A Week ago it was 20 hryvnais. Currency Speculation?

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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2018

As another top manager reflected: “Even if you personally thought that ‘Damn it, this won’t work,’ you couldn’t shout that to anyone. You need to have a [viable] option before you can change course.” These actions increased trust and led to a more open dialogue about the company’s strategy.

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Henman Performance Executive

APRIL 11, 2011

She got runned over by a damned old train. He had a clear strategy, but he initially failed in execution because he didn’t seek the voice of the customer. . Responding to the feedback, Goodman sat down and wrote another verse to the song: Well I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison. And I went to pick her up in the rain. Cancel reply.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Even after overcoming hurdles to enter the profession, women leave at much higher rates than men, often because of the stress that comes with being female in a male-dominated field. When experienced daily, this kind of subtle stress can become depleting. But we also identified important resilience strategies women can use to overcome it.

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