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What Is Freelance Consulting? & How To Get Your First Clients

Consulting Success

What is freelance consulting? Freelance consulting refers to offering consulting (expert advice in a particular industry) as an independent self-employed business owner instead of as an employee of a consulting firm. For example, a strategy consultant might work for a big firm like McKinsey or Bain. But a freelance strategy consultant works for themselves —.

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Lead Management: Fostering Good Habits in the Workplace

Tom Spencer

In the previous article , I introduced the concepts of boss and lead management, and it seems clear-cut that the latter is superior and preferable. In this article, I explore why managers might struggle to implement lead management and fall back into the bad habits of boss management. Scenario – The Tardy Employee Consider a classic situation that is bound to occur in any workplace — the tardy employee.

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How Early-Adopter Companies Are Thinking About Apple Vision Pro

Harvard Business

The Apple Vision Pro marks the biggest experiment yet in the field of “spatial computing,” which its boosters argue has the potential to be the next era of tech — a shift on par with the emergence of mobile computing. But what are early adopter companies really doing with Apple’s new hardware, and what do they hope to get out of these investments? The piece examines efforts from Lowe’s, e.l.f.

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Benefits of Business Consulting Services

Business Consulting Agency

In the fast-paced and ever-evolving landscape of business, the role of consulting services has become increasingly pivotal. Regardless of the industry, size, or nature of a company, engaging with business consulting services offers a myriad of benefits that can significantly impact growth, efficiency, and overall success. Explore the universal advantages of leveraging consulting services.

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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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The Restorative Power of Small Habits

Harvard Business

Over the last few years, there’s been a renewed focus on burnout, a serious physical and psychological condition that requires attention and care. But a narrow focus on burnout ignores another key part of wellbeing — the more subtle but equally important ongoing maintenance of one’s energy, especially through the daily challenges of leadership. The authors identify five key energy batteries: physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social.

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Building a Supplier Diversity Program? Learn from the U.S. Government.

Harvard Business

Large companies are striving to increase their purchases from small, diverse-owned businesses (SDBs) — those that are 51% or more owned and operated by an individual or group that is part of a historically underrepresented or underserved group (e.g., women, racial minorities, veterans, LGBTQIA+, and people with disabilities). Despite their pledges, they are struggling to meet their goals.

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Understanding free software

Seth Godin Blog

A cup of coffee costs far more than a glass of water. That’s true even though we can’t live without water. (Most) people can live without coffee. It’s true even though creating the infrastructure to purify and deliver clean water costs billions of dollars. The critical reason for the difference is marginal cost. To deliver one more glass of water costs the town virtually nothing.

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Three Priorities for Moving Your GenAI Program Forward - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM SLALOM AND GOOGLE CLOUD

Harvard Business

Sponsor content from Slalom and Google Cloud.

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What’s Your Organization’s Truth?

The Consultants Peer Group

In the data world, the term ‘source of truth’ is known and refers to the authoritative and reliable source of information within the company -- a single, trusted repository that contains accurate, up-to-date, and consistent data or knowledge that employees rely on for decision-making, problem-solving, and operational processes. To co-opt the term from the IT domain, does your organization have a leadership ‘source of truth?

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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