David A Fields

AUGUST 29, 2023

Your consulting firm faces many difficult decisions—times when you need to metaphorically draw a line in the sand and vow, “If we reach this line, we change directions” or “If we cross this line, we go all-in” or “Even if we draw the line in a circle, we will not smirk and call it a … Continued The post Your Consulting Firm Needs to Find This Line appeared first on David A.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2023

Most meeting advice focuses on how to make meetings more effective or how to cut down on the number of meetings you have altogether. But what about how to schedule your meetings alongside other work tasks to best manage your productivity? New research explores this question and finds that many people commit two key errors in organizing their schedules: stacking too many meetings together on the same day or pairing intense meetings with other intense tasks.

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Action Plan

AUGUST 29, 2023

I love quotations. When I started my business, I compiled a hundred or more quotes about success and read them frequently. I own books of quotations and look up quotations online almost every day. Quotations are condensed wisdom. Read a few wise quotes in the morning, and they’ll work on your thinking for the rest of the day. Over the years, I’ve come up with a few of my own in the domain of attracting clients.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2023

The most effective approach to DEI is also the best for controlling legal risk: Focus your DEI program on interrupting the bias that’s constantly transmitted through basic business systems. This is how most corporate DEI programs, which typically focus on trainings and tweaks to organizational systems to level the playing field, already work.

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Progressus

AUGUST 29, 2023

Many professional services firms face challenges in delivering projects within the stipulated time and budget. Navigating intricate project structures often lead to issues in deriving precise estimates, budgets, and schedules. Missed communication can further escalate costs or introduce delays. To appease clients, some businesses might even offer discounts when projects face hitches.

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Seth Godin Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Belief makes us human. Belief is our tool to dance with a possible future, confront our fears, and build community. Our personal taste and our preferences belong to us as well, helping us believe in ourselves. For millennia, belief thrived in most parts of our lives. We didn’t need belief to know that fire was hot (it always is), but it certainly gave us hope and solace in the face of the unknown.

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Progressus

AUGUST 29, 2023

In the highly competitive A&E marketplace, knowing and anticipating a project’s expenses correctly provides a definite advantage when competing for a contract. But, even in the best of circumstances, cost estimating is complicated and there are myriad risks and uncertainties to consider. First, it’s important to understand the complexity of cost estimating.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2023

A conversation with Babson professor Tom Davenport on the democratization of digital transformation.

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