Consultant Journal
APRIL 26, 2019
Entrepreneurial Fear of Missing Out (FOMO). All those selfies got you down? Here’s how entrepreneurs can cope. Open any social media app and you’re likely to find beautiful images of people living their perfect lives. While many discussions of social media talk about the effect on individuals, entrepreneurs can be just as vulnerable to the effects of social media.
David A Fields
APRIL 23, 2019
Let’s finish up with Goldilocks, that unrepentant trespasser, porridge thief and handy metaphor for everything “just right.” When last we left our fair-haired bear bait, she was pointing to Significance as one of the key indicators of the perfect project for your consulting firm. (See this article.) Goldi’s Five-by-Five zone consists of your prospect’s top … Continued.
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Markovitz Consulting
APRIL 24, 2019
It’s been a long time since I blogged about the inanity of multitasking in a cognitively demanding environment, but my friend Mark Graban sent me an article that reminded me of how important this topic is. According to a new study by Penn Medicine and Johns Hopkins , first year physicians spend 87% of their time on indirect patient care, half of which is consumed by the various electronic medical record systems.
Consulting Success
APRIL 22, 2019
Office relocations can draw issues especially in the productivity and engagement of employees. When Jessica Lederer found the holes in the relocation process, she knew right then she can make a change by starting a workplace strategy firm and structuring consulting offers. Jessica is now the CEO of Ingage, Inc., a business focused on helping organizations that are moving or thinking about how they can leverage their physical space better to maximize employee engagement, productivity, How To Stru
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Management Consulted
APRIL 21, 2019
Consulting is known for its business travel – so much, in fact, that it’s hard to describe your work in the industry without mentioning the constant flights and hotel nights. While it’s great to rack up points and enjoy nice … Continue Reading. The post 5 Travel Hacks as a Deloitte Consultant appeared first on Management Consulted.
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Rick Conlow
APRIL 22, 2019
How do you get someone to follow you? Most leaders rely on position power that comes with their job title. The presence and impact of Servant Leaders depends on their personal power. Leadership through position power involves these strategies: Domination approach. Employees are subordinate. “Do as I say!”. Fear strategies. The leader has all the answers.
Clarity Consultants
APRIL 24, 2019
By using the right learning strategy, you can improve employee engagement. Plus, you get the benefit of their enhanced skill sets while your workers have a chance to explore new territory and develop professionally, creating a win-win scenario. The post How Can a Learning Strategy Improve Employee Engagement? appeared first on Clarity Consultants - Training Development.
Management Consulted
APRIL 23, 2019
At some point, you’ve probably heard about the Big 4 accounting firms. Deloitte, PwC, Ernst & Young, and KPMG are titans in the business world and each boast revenues in the billions. Altogether, they generated over $148 billion in revenue … Continue Reading. The post Big 4 Accounting Firms appeared first on Management Consulted.
Tom Spencer
APRIL 20, 2019
In my last blog post I wrote about how new grads can navigate interview season when they finally receive a consulting interview they’re excited about. You can find the full article here. After this post was published, students reached out to me asking for examples of ‘fit’ questions. Interview questions are commonly split up into technical, behavioural and fit questions.
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Johanna Rothman
APRIL 26, 2019
As I've written these product role posts, a number of you have asked about how to use component teams. You might have a security team. Maybe a performance team. Regardless of my desire, you have component teams. You want a more agile approach to manage the interdependencies among the teams. You want to be able to deliver small features more often. Visualize Where You Want to Be.
The Fearless Marketer
APRIL 22, 2019
Disclaimer: This article is my lame attempt at humor. This is something I came up with a couple of weeks ago that I couldn’t let go of. If this offends your religious beliefs, then this is definitely not the religion for you. Please forgive me. Announcing a new religion: Humorology. Purpose: To infuse a sense of humor into everyday life (including work and business).
Chad Barr
APRIL 24, 2019
I work hard on reducing my inbox down to zero as much as possible and almost daily. I do admit that there are days that this task is not manageable but my goal, on most days, is to have my inbox empty at the end of the day, which is a great feeling when achieved. Almost six years ago, I first wrote about the Inbox Zero concept and shared several insights as to why it makes sense to do so and how to do this.
Consulthon
APRIL 26, 2019
Hi All, I would like to implement and try in my team tools for preventing problems or making contingencies. My idea is to think of the problems beforehand, rather than firefighting afterward. T.
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Johanna Rothman
APRIL 23, 2019
Many people in the agile community promote a product orientation over a project orientation. That's possible because an organization has product or feature teams. That works until you have more products than teams. That's when you might still need projects to accomplish everything. If you keep teams together, you can still use projects in a product-oriented organization.
Martinka Consulting
APRIL 26, 2019
Record number of small business sales in 2018! This as per bizbuysell.com. More businesses sold after being advertised on bizbuysell.com than any other year, and 2017 was 25% higher than 2016. Our first question is: what is “small?” Well, the median revenue of these companies was about $500,000 and the median selling price was about $250,000. Pretty small.
Consultants' Consultant
APRIL 23, 2019
Consultants Consultant: I’ve spoken about Dan Coyle’s concept of psychological safety before. In this podcast he explains the 3 principles of effective teams: 1. Safety 2. Vulnerability 3. Purpose In order to get this we need to Connect Share Tell stories Here are my favourite quotes: The most important words a leader can say are “I stuffed […].
Consulthon
APRIL 26, 2019
Hi All, Another issue I am facing: How do you overcome key-man-risk dependency? Have you ever had people in your team/organisation who know too much and when they are away (holiday,sick-leave or e.
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Rod Burkert
APRIL 24, 2019
What is the most favorite thing you do? What is the most profitable thing you do? Are they the same thing? You’ve been working for years alongside a well-known, well-respected BVFLS practitioner. Now they are looking to sell the practice and retire. Where does that leave you? Hey, what’s up! I’m Rod Burkert. And welcome to my Practice Development Corner, the place where business valuation professionals like you come to learn how to turn the practice they have into the practice they want.
Martinka Consulting
APRIL 24, 2019
“You have to get comfortable with the uncomfortable if you want to grow.” I heard this recently and it hit home. It reminded me of our Partner On-Call member who had a hard time picking up the phone, until he picked it up, and the call went great. Of course, he deliberated again for 15-20 minutes (his estimate of time) by staring at the phone before making another (successful) call.
Prudent Pedal
APRIL 23, 2019
For the past 20 years, the B2C marketing profession has been moving in the direction of professional services. These consumer-focused companies are finally learning what professional services firms have known for decades—dare I say centuries. Sales and Marketing are about building trusting relationships. Unfortunately, I suspect that much of what has been put on paper has either not been read recently, been seriously misappropriated or is being willfully ignored.
Harvard Business
APRIL 23, 2019
Marcus Buckingham, head of people and performance research at the ADP Research Institute, and Ashley Goodall, senior vice president of leadership and team intelligence at Cisco Systems, say that managers and organizations are overestimating the importance of critical feedback. They argue that, in focusing our efforts on correcting weaknesses and rounding people out, we lose the ability to get exceptional performance from them.
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Management and IT Consulting
APRIL 25, 2019
You must leverage technology into every aspect of your consulting firm in order to deliver engagement and operational efficiencies.
Gina Abudi
APRIL 24, 2019
Read Part 1 of this client short story. When we left off with Sarah, she was going to do some research to understand what was going on. In this posting, we’ll share Sarah’s findings and next steps outlined with the organization. Sarah’s Findings. Sarah met with a number of employees from throughout the organization, [.]. The post What’s Up with My Employees??
Seth Godin Blog
APRIL 21, 2019
Wouldn’t it be great if we always had a map? A set of step-by-step instructions on how to get from here to there, wherever we were and wherever wanted to go… Steve Pressfield relates this magical story: A Ghurka rifleman escaped from a Japanese prison in south Burma and walked six hundred miles alone through the jungles to freedom. The journey took him five months, but he never asked the way and he never lost the way.
Harvard Business
APRIL 24, 2019
World-renowned economist Mariana Mazzucato discusses the role of the state as a value creator and how we can apply mission-oriented models of innovation to solve today’s burning challenges. The views expressed on this podcast are those of its hosts, guests, and callers, and not those of Harvard Business Review.
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