Consulting Success

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

If you’re using a consulting hourly rate for your services, you likely could be making 3-5x as much — for the same services. In our 2023 Consulting Fees Study, we learned that 29% of consultants use an hourly rate. That means it’s the 2nd most popular pricing strategy for consultants. However, after spending over 13.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Consulting is a wide field of work. If your job description involves providing a service to a client utilizing your skill set and time, then you are probably a consultant of some kind. If you have read some of the blogs on this website, you have probably come across many that describe life and work […] The post Types of Consultants – Engineering and Scientific Consulting first appeared on Tom Spencer.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

This article presents a classroom experiment that compared a strategy developed by a team of MBA students in the traditional way with one developed using a virtual AI assistant, which was an interactive tool that linked a tried-and-tested strategy toolkit as a plug-in to the generative AI underlying Chat GPT. The results of the two independent processes were largely similar, with the AI-assisted strategy being, if anything, more original.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Individuals looking to fast-track their careers frequently find themselves lured by the exciting world of consulting in today’s fast-paced and constantly evolving business environment. Beyond the veneer of prestige and a lucrative 6-figure salary, however, lies a highly intense and competitive industry, leading naturally to a high turnover rate as many choose to exit this […] The post Beyond Consulting: Accelerating Your Professional Career first appeared on Tom Spencer.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

I'm a little slow this week, but I made it! If you celebrate Thanksgiving, I hope your day was lovely. Now, for the WIP: The transcription: I’m Johanna Rothman, and this is 60 Seconds of Johanna’s WIP for November 24, 2023, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in progress. This excerpt is from a short story I started this morning, tentatively titled, Nana Nerds.

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Seth Godin Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Lana Swartz coined this term in her breakthrough paper on crypto. A scam always involves a transaction. In the traditional fraud, the scammer tells a lie and the buyer, either with or without diligence, believes it and loses everything. You buy the magic beans, but they don’t grow. But modern scams have a network component to them. Either there are conditions present where the scams are far more likely to occur (because of the magnification media and other forces can offer to the scammer)

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Many companies have made becoming data-driven a goal, and yet many traditional organizations are still struggling to democratize data beyond the data experts. The authors state that companies must adopt a new management paradigm to truly democratize data, and offer 5 pillars to create a “data democracy”: 1) Broaden data access by rolling-out data catalogs and marketplaces, 2) stimulate the generation of data-driven insights through self-service, 3) level up data literacy with specific curricula

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