David A Fields

APRIL 21, 2020

Little things like projects, revenue and Kreuther’s chocolates. Your clients and prospects need help right now, no matter what industry they’re in. And your consulting firm has needs too. You know that your consulting firm’s contact list—clients, prospects, influencers, partners, etc.—is

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 7, 2024

But I have only had a podcast for a little over 2 and go figure, it’s turned into one of the favorite things I do with my business. After doing 100 podcast episodes, here’s what I learned I’ve been creating content for my business for over 13 years – Yikes!

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Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 31, 2023

Adverse Impacts of Unprofessional Email Your email address may seem like a small thing, but it’s tremendously important. The recipient may perceive you as unsophisticated and/or insincere about your business, or just too lazy to do things right. It can affect the perceptions of your prospective clients, your pricing, and your profit.

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Harvard Business

MAY 29, 2019

Something as simple as an unreturned email can make a big difference.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It’s one thing to lead through a normal range of uncertainty with its ups and downs. While the leader has little to no control over the external competitive environment, they have astonishing influence over the internal performance environment, including employee engagement, morale, and productivity.

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Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 30, 2024

The #OpenToWork Banner When you are looking for new clients or additional projects, it’s tempting to put the little green #OpenToWork frame around your headshot. Surely, it’s a good thing to let the world know that you’re available, right? You can adapt this little formula: “I help X do Y by Z.” Learn more at www.SeatonCX.com.”

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Successful Independent Consulting

OCTOBER 27, 2023

They don’t know to add a hefty margin to cover things like self-employment tax, business expenses, health insurance, and nonbillable time spent on business administration. Similarly, professionals who worked for a Fortune 100 company like General Electric can charge more than people who worked for a little-known company.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Successfully transitioning to a higher-level leadership role requires self-confidence, but many leaders display too much or too little early on. In this article, the author outlines strategies to help you find the optimal level of confidence.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2023

Today’s workers feel numbed by a fragmented, unpredictable, and overwhelming collection of collaboration tools — the very things advertised to boost their productivity. They know they’re overloaded and feel exhausted but believe there is little or nothing they can do to slow the onslaught of communication.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 29, 2022

Little's Law explains why things work this way. Little's Law. When I think of Little's Law, I also think of these sayings: Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong will. The longer things take, the longer they will take. If it is, learn these lessons from Manage Your Project Portfolio : Stop starting new things.

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Harvard Business

MAY 29, 2019

Something as simple as an unreturned email can make a big difference.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 23, 2020

Managers, it’s not as hard as you think.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 5, 2020

Here's the thing about proposals: It's not one of the favorite things that many consultants have around their business. The first thing that you need to do is make sure you capture your background and objectives. And there's a connection between satisfaction and the net promoter score and all of these things relate together.

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The Fearless Marketer

JUNE 28, 2021

What do these things have in common and what does it have to do with attracting new clients? I’ve been taking my two dogs to this park for a little more than two years. I’ve been taking my two dogs to this park for a little more than two years. We all seem to have two things in common. And most of us come every day.

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Action Plan

JANUARY 25, 2024

We all like certain things. There’s a whole lot of things to choose from out there. Below is a list of things that you may like. Now ask yourself this one question: Did you choose to like any of those things or did you just end up liking one thing instead of another thing? Why do I love my little white dogs?

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Seth Godin Blog

JUNE 14, 2016

If the association or the chat room or the street corner isn't what you need it to be, why not make it into the thing we're hoping for? Freedom and leverage is great, but it comes with responsibility. We're all curators/concierges/impresarios now.

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Action Plan

MARCH 5, 2024

Then, a momentous thing happened in 2018. We got two little dogs, and I started walking them every day, first at the local park, which led to my first new friends in years. After Covid, I got a little tired of driving five miles to the park every day and started to walk my dogs around the downtown Boulder Creek neighborhood.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2020

Three Things You Need To Succeed as an Executive Advisor. The second thing you need is to cultivate your own personal power and this begins with your approach to your business development. There is little chance that you'll be perceived as a trusted advisor if you come into the organization as a subcontractor.

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Action Plan

APRIL 1, 2024

Not only did they invite us for dinner, but they also invited our little dogs, who had a great time and were smiling all evening! She does all the things she does not to be recognized but because she loves her work and loves to give back. You’ve done some great things in your life, and you’ve made a real difference.

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Action Plan

JANUARY 30, 2024

We all like certain things. There’s a whole lot of things to choose from out there. Below is a list of things that you may like. Now ask yourself this one question: Did you choose to like any of those things or did you just end up liking one thing instead of another thing? Why do I love my little white dogs?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 26, 2024

Here's how I find that data to see the project's current progress and a little into the future. See the Project's Progress and a Little About the Future Yogi Berra said: “It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” Ask yourself this question: What is the most valuable thing we can learn and how fast can we learn that?

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Seth Godin Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

Over time, things get more average. That’s because each new customer, each new supplier and each new employee wants or needs something a little more normal, at least sometimes. As an organization grows in scale, the idiosyncrasy and distinctiveness that was originally informed by the taste of the founders moves toward the mean.

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Buzzsprout

JANUARY 8, 2024

Tips for asking great podcast interview questions A little preparation goes a long way toward an engaging conversation. A little time spent on this step can go a long way toward keeping the conversation productive and avoiding awkward silences. What is the one thing I want to accomplish or convey? What star sign are you?

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Action Plan

APRIL 8, 2024

I’ve been collecting jazz for 50 years, and I’d love to know a little about the kind of jazz you collect.’ “Now, Do a little research and see what they are. The important thing to remember is that relationships are based on mutual interests. Now, a person you want to connect with might have any number of interests.

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On the Brink Podcast

APRIL 3, 2023

Learn how to really and truly end gender bias at work Despite extensive and costly diversity initiatives, little progress has been made in recent years in ending workplace gender inequality. And we know how hard it is for people and groups of people to shift their ways of doing things to improve their workplaces.

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Leadership Vision Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2023

I read the descriptions for the theme of ideation and felt like wow, for the first time, this, this thing, this tool, this assessment, has finally put words to what I had already known about myself for my entire life. The language of Strengths is fantastic when it comes to communicating things about yourself that help you stand out.

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Chad Barr

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or you take them with gratitude. Life is a series of thousands of tiny little miracles. This past week especially, leading up to Thanksgiving, there have been an array of memes and sayings having to do with gratitude floating around on social media.

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Harmonious Workplaces

MARCH 2, 2024

My wife Lisa and I chatted this morning about various things on our minds. She felt devastated when her father congratulated her on a job well done, and she admitted, crying, that she had not performed most of the music (her little ring finger could not quite reach the keys required to sound a “D”). Indie Books International.

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Seth Godin Blog

MAY 19, 2023

When we encounter something complex, we imagine that, like us, it has a little person at the controls, someone who, if we were at the control panel, would do what we do. Our experience of life on Earth is a series of narratives about the little people inside of everyone we encounter. None of us do.

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Action Plan

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Not a small thing! It means finding ways to work things out, even when we are at odds with others. This worked for me: I walk my two wonderful little dogs in my Boulder Creek neighborhood every day, and I talk to almost everyone I meet. Pragmatic Progress: I try not to argue with reality or complain about the way things are.

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Halo Psych

APRIL 17, 2024

And one of the things they have the most in common is a frustration with meetings. Here are 10 things you can do: A 2018 study looked at the findings from across 200 studies into meetings. The researchers identified the ideal way to make meetings more effective, suggesting 10 things to do before, during, and after a meeting.

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Strategy+Business

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Lasting confidence in a company is built one customer interaction at a time.

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Rick Conlow

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Energy and persistence conquer all things.” Benjamin Franklin. “As Bertrand Russell. “The difference between the difficult and the impossible is that the impossible takes a little longer time.” A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.”

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Especially since Bob Sutton had posted this, and I replied to it last week: A little advice for authors who are seeking blurbs. But I had just done the same thing Sutton warned about. People like helping because they feel as if they can have a little part in your success. I had only asked men to write praise quotes.

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Seth Godin Blog

JULY 23, 2023

The cool thing is always a little out of reach. One definition of cool are things that are just out of reach. And for most of us, once we get it, it’s not seen as cool any more. This is not an accident.

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OCTOBER 17, 2023

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. Took my two little rascally dogs to the beach in Santa Cruz. Reading was at the top of my list and I did read quite a bit. Yes, dogs do smile!

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 19, 2023

All these unsolicited offers have one thing in common: They want to help me because I'm running my business “wrong.” Worse, I'm pretty sure there's only one thing that the people behind these offers have in common: they succeed at separating would-be consultants or business people from their hard-earned money.

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