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7 Consulting Business Ideas (Based On Real Businesses)

Consulting Success

Thinking about starting a consulting business and looking for viable consulting business ideas? Entrepreneurial consulting is one of the lowest-risk, highest-reward businesses you can start. All you need is subject matter expertise and an internet connection. But in business, ideation is the easy part. Anyone can give you good ideas. In this article, we’ll show.

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Managing Meetings: How to Drive Productivity and Success

Tom Spencer

Meetings can either be a powerful catalyst for collaboration and decision-making or a drain on time and productivity. Whether you are in consulting, strategy, operations, or product management, the ability to manage meetings effectively is a crucial skill that can significantly impact the success of your endeavors. In this short article, we will explore strategies for mastering the art of meeting management that can be applied across diverse professional domains. 1.

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What to Do When Your Team Blames You

Harvard Business

When you’re a manager, at some point, regardless of how the circumstances arise, your team will blame you for something that’s making them unhappy, whether you have control over it or not. Being accused by your team of failing them in some way induces a threat state in your brain, impairing your ability to think clearly and triggering a variety of cognitive distortions and defensive behaviors.

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Johanna’s 60 Seconds of Writing WIP for April 12, 2024

Johanna Rothman

My podcast this week is from the speaking book. Enjoy! The podcast: The video: [link] The Transcript: I’m Johanna Rothman, and this is 60 Seconds of Johanna’s Writing WIP for April 12, 2024, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in progress. This excerpt is from the speaking book. This chapter focused on a future vision based on your personal expertise and experience.

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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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Research: How to Close the Gender Gap in Startup Financing

Harvard Business

A global analysis of previous research over the last three decades shows that women entrepreneurs face a higher rate of business loan denials and increased interest rates in loan decisions made by commercial bankers. Interestingly, the data also reveals that the formal and informal standing of women in a particular society can provide clues to some of the true hurdles to positive change.

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Reaching Ambitious Carbon Goals with Cost-Efficient Energy Storage - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM REPT Battero

Harvard Business

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The challenge of nonprofit fundraising

Seth Godin Blog

When someone starts a business, they spend a bunch of time with a business plan, working to raise funds and get it off the ground. After that, though, the purpose of the business is completely aligned with the idea of not running out of money. We run a business to make money, not to spend it. If done well, there’s no more fundraising after a startup period.