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Why and How Personal Branding is Vital for Independent Consultants

Successful Independent Consulting

Independent consultants need to think the same way. You need to be top-of-mind when the need for your expertise pops up so the client thinks to call you, or their colleague thinks to refer you. A tag line should not be your job title or occupation. In our field this is called personal branding. This is the whole point!

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Why Your Employees Aren't Committed to Your Company Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

But how inclusive should your strategic thinking and planning be? Benefits of inclusive strategic thinking and planning A strategy is simply a plan of action to achieve a stated goal. Strategic thinking uses critical thinking to consider the fundamental business drivers and challenges specific to an organization.

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Revisiting stamps for email

Seth Godin Blog

The selfish, short-term-thinking sender benefits by emailing as many people as possible, and the recipients suffer. Here’s an alternative: A simple plugin for gmail (and then, eventually other providers) that tags the email you send and receive. The problem with the magical medium of email is that it’s an open API.

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Your Consulting Niche vs Jack-of-All-Trades Myth

Successful Independent Consulting

Many people who embark on the independent professional path think they should define their services broadly so they will look like a good fit for many projects. I know exactly who to contact when a client says any of these things: “Our global system implementation is going to impact nearly everyone in the company.”

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Friday Fusion: September 4th, 2020

Tsavo Neal

You are packaging up what you know to help your reader get their desired result, and slapping a price tag on it. Think “Do it yourself.”. You are personally helping your reader get their desired result, and slapping a price tag on your help. Think “I’ll do it for you.”. Here’s the way I think about it that helps me do it.

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Leadership Tip #2: Do the Right Thing, Even When it Feels Uncomfortable

Johanna Rothman

We all like to think we use our value-based integrity to decide and act. See the Insubordination vs Caring About the System post for more information.). Use the leadership-tip tag here to find them.). And I bet you've seen people who don't appear to use that kind of integrity. Here's an example I see all too often.

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Component Teams Create Coupling in Products and Organizations

Johanna Rothman

Component teams are a system problem. If you think in resource efficiency , then it looks like component teams make sense. I think I have an idea why. This image (from Agile and Lean Program Management ) shows how a program manager might think of the architecture for an integrated system product.