Consulting Success

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

For the ten years being in industry, Shannon Adkins was a buyer of consulting services and of multimillion-dollar contracts of consulting services. Shannon is the president and CEO of Future State Inc., a management consulting firm that brings change management and operational transformation expertise to global enterprises in the life sciences, healthcare and technology industries.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The first thing you notice when you move to a smaller firm is how much more freedom everyone has. No process, no approvals, no problems, right? After a while, you start noticing how much more personality everyone has. She does everything but gripes constantly; he does nothing and no one seems to care. I would say that everyone is writing their own job description, but that's not true because no one even has a job description.

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Seth Godin Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Your car may have a powerful engine, but if the steering wheel is out of whack, it’s probably a mistake to simply drive faster. And putting in premium gas and removing the muffler doesn’t help much either. And if you’re driving on a crowded road, it makes no sense to hit the gas and tell anyone who gets hit to be more careful. We don’t have to wait for a wreck, a smashed engine, to put our tools to better use.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

From the Women at Work podcast: Listen and subscribe to our podcast via Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS. Download the discussion guide for this episode. Join our online community. Download this podcast. The glass ceiling is the classic symbol of the barrier women bump into as we go through our careers. But for women of color, that barrier is more like a concrete wall.

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Henman Performance Executive

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Several years ago, I helped the president of a manufacturing company run a strategy initiative. When I walked into the room on the first day, twenty-six eager faces greeted me. Well-intended though he was, my client had inadvertently turned our strategy session into an execution-a session that promised to kill the strategy before it had […]. The post Don’t Confuse Execution with Strategy, or You’ll Jeopardize Both appeared first on Henman Performance Group.

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The Fearless Marketer

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Election day is the most important day of the year. It’s the one day when every single adult American has a say in who will run our government. Voting is a sacred duty. So I urge you to make your voice heard at the polls. And by the way, if you think that your candidate is way ahead in the polls and your vote doesn’t matter, you’re not thinking straight.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Martyn Goddard/Getty Images. More than ever before, managers are using large-scale randomized controlled trials (i.e., experiments) to guide decisions. This has led to impressive gains for organizations ranging from Amazon to the UK government. We are excited about the rise of experiments in organizations and have spent much of the past few years thinking about how to design and interpret them.

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The Fearless Marketer

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Election day is the most important day of the year. It’s the one day when every single adult American has a say in who will run our government. Voting is a sacred duty. So I urge you to make your voice heard at the polls. And by the way, if you think that your candidate is way ahead in the polls and your vote doesn’t matter, you’re not thinking straight.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Westend61/Getty Images. Productivity in the United States’ health care industry is declining — and has been ever since World War II. As the cost of treating patients continues to rise, life expectancy in America is beginning to fall. But there is mounting evidence that artificial intelligence (AI) can reverse the downward spiral in productivity by automating the system’s labyrinth of labor-intensive, inefficient administrative tasks, many of which have little to do with treatin

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Effective Strategy Execution Matters. What good is a new strategic direction without effective strategy execution? The best growth plans, unless implemented, are worth very little. You may have carefully plotted your path to the top; but if you don’t follow through, anchor point-by-anchor point and step-by-step, you’ll never reach your goal. Why Strategies Stall.

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