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Validation

Alan Weiss

But one day, while waiting for a meeting, I was reading everything on a hall bulletin board and came to the fire extinguisher, which had a tag indicating it had been inspected and tested by the fire marshal’s department. At first I thought this was about a lack of confidence or poor experiences in the past.

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6 Reasons to Hire a Consultant

Tom Spencer

Given that consulting advice can sometimes sound like a statement of the obvious, albeit very well power-pointed, and tends to come with a shockingly high price tag, you would be forgiven for asking “why!?” An executive who can say to the board “we acted on McKinsey’s advice!”

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International Standards for Management Consulting

Effective Managers

David is a very experienced management consultant, currently on the national board of the Institute of Management Consultants in the USA. I love his tag line: Coaching consultants beyond start-up to success and on to significance.

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The Engaged Board Member

The Nonprofit Consultant

but I always wonder, what does "engaged" mean for a board?" My first thought on "engagement" is that it is demonstrated by involvement beyond speaking up at board meetings: committee work, volunteering for tedious tasks ( envelope stuffing anybody? What does "engaged board member" mean to you?

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Top Four Productivity Tools I Cannot Live Without

Women in Consulting

You can tag them for reference (I used tags like #clients for client work, #work for all the non-billable work required to run a business, #personal to track how much “me time” I am really doing, #housework for the other business I do, #book to track time and tasks for the book I’m writing, etc.). FollowUpThen.

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How Many Board Members?

The Nonprofit Consultant

This is a question that came up in a conversation last week, and from time to time; "What is the appropriate size for a nonprofit board of directors?" Many larger nonprofits do have large, 30-member boards, but upon closer examination, they're not typically the true governing body. and "Is it okay if we run on fewer for a while?"

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Should a CEO’s Bonus Be Based on Financial Performance Alone?

Harvard Business

The Commonwealth Bank’s shareholders were reacting to the board’s annual Remuneration Report, which contained a recommendation that the CEO be granted a bonus based on what critics saw as “soft” measures. Boards around the world find themselves in a bind. ” Now a full 50% of the assessment was subjective.