Mon.May 01, 2023

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How Consultants Win BIG Clients (With Big Budgets) With Tom Searcy: Podcast #288

Consulting Success

“When you sell success to someone and deliver success to problems, your past customers never run out of problems.” – Tom Searcy. Today, Michael Zipursky brings a guest who will unravel the Secret to Big Sales. In this episode, Tom Searcy, the Founder of Hunt Big Sales, discusses how consultants can hunt and win big.

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Government Contractors Know When Price Matters

Granite Leadership Strategies

Government contractors always ask: when does price matter? The simple answer is always to employ strategic pricing. In these days of significant competition for Government contracts, strategic pricing is, even more, of a factor now than ever before. Even when you know that the price is not scored, it will be evaluated, and the price will oftentimes be the deciding factor.

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What is the Darkside of Personality?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Star Wars presents an epic struggle between the light and darkside of the force. This special-effects-laden movie saga produced over ten billion dollars of revenue for Disney. However, in the workplace, the made-for-movie behaviors of dark personality traits are not the same. A dark personality sits in between what is considered a normal personality and clinical pathology.

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Is Your Company as Strategically Aligned as You Think It Is?

Harvard Business

A recent analysis of more than 500 employees across 12 organizations found that actual strategic alignment was two to three times lower than perceived alignment.

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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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How to Be a Thinking Partner

Action Plan

I have worked with clients for almost 39 years, and I have always done my best to help them. Sometimes, I have felt like my efforts were not enough, but I have come to realize that I was often wrong about that. It was more about how I approached different kinds of clients. I’ve worked with clients who seemed committed to staying stuck and who always created barriers to their success.

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On to the next thing

Seth Godin Blog

Vitally important, rarely taught, easily messed up. In order to go onto the next thing, which we all do (unless you’re still wearing pajamas with feet and taking ballet lessons), we need to walk away from the last thing. Wrap it up, learn from it, leave it in good hands. And we also need to have an idea of what the next thing is. But if we spend too much time focusing on the next thing, we’ll neglect the thing we’re currently doing, to ill effect.

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Reducing Information Overload in Your Organization

Harvard Business

Don’t let overcommunication tank productivity.

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How Tech Is Transforming Entry-Level, Customer-Facing Jobs

Harvard Business

Takeaways from a survey of more than 800 customer service reps.

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