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Eight Secret Weapons of the Modern Consultant

Steve Shu Consulting

Although I’ve developed a number of blog posts addressing the practice of management consulting, I have spent little time tying things together into a framework of secret weapons of the modern consultant. niche, large traditional), and has experience as both an operating manager and an advisor.

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Thought leadership – by any other name would it smell as sweet?

Tom Spencer

There is a stunningly diverse set of articles and topics, from the incredibly niche to the terrifyingly broad. The academic approach has its downsides too, of course – but findings are generally peer-reviewed, subject to burdens of statistical proof, and with conflicts of interest clearly stated. Image: Pexels.

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Be Careful About Proclaiming "Failed Management Movements.

Consulting and Organizational Management

Be Careful About Proclaiming "Failed Management Movements"! Last week, I got a call from a consultant who lamented the “failure of all those management movements.” ” As usual in these conversations, the caller went on to explain how his particular idea was what leaders and managers really needed.

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Challenging Our Own Mental Models and Our Growth as.

Consulting and Organizational Management

This is the subject of my next three posts here. The vision of the network is a network of people committed to: The shared values of peace, justice, respect, cross-cultural understanding and global cooperation; The preservation of indigenous cultures, traditions and ecologies; The enhancement of quality of life around the world.

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7 Skills That Aren’t About to Be Automated

Harvard Business

.” In effective communication, story and fact, rhetoric and science intertwine to enlist the emotions of others to take action on a topic or an initiative. Of course, communication must be about a particular topic. Product managers that I previously thought were hopeless became effective.

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Research: Millennials Think About Work Too Much

Harvard Business

Using a topic extraction algorithm ( Latent Dirichlet allocation with stop words removed and hyperparameters optimized), we extracted descriptive topics that characterize the data set. Each of these topics includes a set of common words and their frequency. Long-Term Goals – Where Are Millennials Hoping to Go?

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Business Valuation Lessons From ESOPs

Martinka Consulting

Methodologies : The second red-flag topic is the improper use of valuation methodologies. There is a wide range because of the difference, firm to firm, of the non-financial factors including customer concentration, management quality, dependency on the owner, and more. But what about in other aspects of business?

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