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The Power of Specializing Your Consulting Firm with Sarah Heal: Podcast #309

Consulting Success

Nobody wants to be just another consulting firm. So, how will you stand out among others? Today, Sarah Heal, the Director and Co-Founder of Information Leadership, brings you the power of specializing your consulting firm to be on top of the industry. Sarah delves into improving messaging, delegating effectively, valuing employees, niching down, leveraging your.

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How to Evaluate a Job Candidate’s Critical Thinking Skills in an Interview

Harvard Business

The oldest and still the most powerful tactic for fostering critical thinking is the Socratic method, developed over 2,400 years ago by Socrates, one of the founders of Western philosophy. The Socratic method uses thought-provoking question-and-answer probing to promote learning. It focuses on generating more questions than answers, where the answers are not a stopping point but the beginning of further analysis.

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Consultants Empower Beauty Brands in the US Market

Business Consulting Agency

The United States boasts a thriving beauty industry, with consumers who are passionate about skincare, cosmetics, and personal care products. For beauty brands seeking to enter or expand within this lucrative market, the journey can be complex and challenging. This is where US market entry consulting services step in as invaluable allies. Here we will explore how these consulting services benefit beauty brands, providing essential insights, regulatory expertise, and tailored strategies for succe

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Good Judgment Is a Competitive Advantage in the Age of AI

Harvard Business

With generative AI, the technology game has changed — suddenly everyone is a potential programmer. But as we travel these technological leaps forward, there’s still a fundamental, longstanding capability every organization will need to realize AI’s true potential: judgment. That idea of judgment in the age of AI was a central tenet of the work of the authors’ late colleague, visionary friend, and longtime HBR contributor Alessandro Di Fiore.

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PowerPoint Best Practices for Creating Stellar Presentations

Mastering data visualization in PowerPoint will help accelerate your career because it positions you as someone who can present data that drives business decisions forward. think-cell's PowerPoint Best Practices eBook was created specifically for professionals aiming to master the art and science of data-driven storytelling. What’s inside: Practical Insights: Uncover valuable tips for crafting engaging and persuasive presentations.

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Unleashing My Inner Geek

Action Plan

Last week I was listening to an interview with Wil Wheaton who played Wesley Crusher in Star Trek, The Next Generation. And he was talking about being a geek. He said, “That thing that we all have in common that makes us geeks or nerds, no matter what it’s about… is that passionate, unself-conscious enthusiasm, that crazy, ‘I want to talk about it and go all-in on it,’ type of mindset!

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Essilor / Luxotica – a vertical integration with some twists and turns!

Ben de Haldevang

The latest in our series of Agile Gorilla Podcasts where we talk through a deal of interest. In this episode, we talk through the challenges of leadership in a cross border transaction, dealing with the regulators, and where to focus. Let me know what you think!

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Why Your Employee Engagement Scores Are Not Improving

LSA Global

Do You Know Why Your Employee Engagement Scores Are Not Improving? Even though most company leaders espouse the importance and value of employee engagement , the majority of companies are not doing what it takes to meaningfully boost employee engagement scores. Sadly, 80% of employees believe that engagement surveys do not drive meaningful outcomes.

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More vs. better

Seth Godin Blog

If every building in the shopping district in a big city was owned by one landlord, rents would go up. So would the prices of everything sold. The landlord would keep a significant percentage of each store’s profits and innovation would suffer as well. Google’s monopoly is real. They pay Apple more than a million dollars an hour to be the default search engine on phones.

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LSA Global Delivers First Time People Manager Training for Healthcare Leader

LSA Global

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy , today announced results for a First Time People Manager Training focused on new or soon to be first time people leaders to optimize their leadership impact by successfully making the transition from being an individual contributor doing the work themselves, to a leader o

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr