David A Fields

OCTOBER 17, 2023

There are better (and worse) ways for your consulting firm to react when you find yourself facing competition for an important project. Sometimes your prospective clients make inexplicable decisions. For example, promoting Jimmy “Straight Line” Jameson to head of innovation, holding inter-departmental competitions on team unity day, and considering consulting firms other than yours for … Continued The post Competing for Projects: Consulting Firm Dos and Don’ts appeared fi

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The headwinds of false urgency can be intense. But they also foster a reactive culture. If everything is urgent, there’s little opportunity for creative and deep work, which tends to flourish only when there’s time and space. In this article, the author offers tips that will help you focus on what’s truly urgent in your organization and enable your team to deliver strong results and sustain high performance over time.

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Business Consulting Agency

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In the dynamic and competitive landscape of the modern business world, the realization of business objectives and goals is paramount for sustained growth and success. Business consulting services have emerged as instrumental partners for companies seeking expert guidance and strategic insights to navigate the complexities of goal achievement. These services offer a comprehensive approach to aligning business strategies with defined objectives, leveraging industry expertise, and fostering a cultu

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In addition to being powerful tools of persuasion and influence, emotions ground us in our humanity and give us important data about our environments.

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Action Plan

OCTOBER 17, 2023

With my declaration on Friday that I was NOT going to watch and read as much news, I asked what I could fill that time with. Reading was at the top of my list and I did read quite a bit. I did a lot of other things as well, but boy, I feel like a smoker who was trying to quit, always wanting to reach for “just a little news.” And I gave in a little here and there.

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Here’s a simple XY grid to help you think about your next project, freelance career or startup: All too common are ‘fun’ businesses where someone finds a hobby they like and tries to turn it into a gig. While the work may be fun, the uphill grind of this sort of project is exhausting. If it’s something that lots of people can do and that customers don’t value that much, it might not be worth your time.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2023

People have the potential to live longer than ever before, which is prompting workers to rethink their time in the workforce relative to retirement. Many workers — whether by choice or by necessity — now seek to extend their working lives beyond the traditional retirement age. An individual’s working years can now span six or more decades. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that almost one in four workers will be age 55 or older by 2031 and that age 65-plus workers represent the faste

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The Management Centre

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Welcome to the Safe Space – where managers can share their issues, and gain advice from top learning & development consultants. Here at =mc we encourage every participant we meet on our programmes to get in touch if they have specific issues they want to follow up on. From this we hear some common problems, issues, challenges, and worries. In this regular feature, we share some of those challenges, and our advice, for dealing with them.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2023

A conversation with a psychologist and a management professor on helping workers address anxiety or depression.

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