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Achieving Startup Success via Product-Market Fit

Tom Spencer

Others have developed theories to explain why businesses fail and what criteria distinguishes successful founders from unsuccessful ones. While this idea is appealing and no doubt has some truth to it, it has led many entrepreneurs to develop, fund, and launch products that ultimately fail.

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Top Power Skills Every Organizational Consultant Needs

Consulting Matters

What are the top power skills that every organizational consultant ought to have? And now that you have broken free of your golden handcuffs and escaped your 9-5, you want to make sure no one else experienced what you did. They get aggressive or shameless self-promot-y.

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How to Design the Ideal (and Most Profitable) Consulting Business

Consulting Matters

Positive self-talk or shameless self-promotion won't transform your mindset and your fears about not having what it takes. While all of these consulting motivations are important, none are as important as your burning desire to become a CONSULTING BUSINESS OWNER because that is what you are leaping into.

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The benefits of different types of time off, and how they differ around the world

Tom Spencer

Ever feel short-changed by the amount of time you’re allowed to take off work? But for freelancers, entrepreneurs, and small business owners the idea of taking off anything more than the occasional weekend is more fraught with panic than with the prospect of taking it easy. Time off is important though.

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A Sense of Belonging

The Consultants Peer Group

Who do you trust to take that journey with you? Here’s what I sense (mostly sense, in that these seem not to be mentioned out load): A fear of rejection – “Will I fit in?” A lack of knowledge – “Not sure what peer groups are about.” Abraham Maslow wrote, “One can choose to go back to safety or forward toward growth. Not at all.

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Mental Models: Building Blocks for Strategic Decisions

Tom Spencer

What are Mental Models? Models of equilibrium, which can take a myriad of forms, with the most famous being the economic model of supply and demand. Under what conditions could these tools fail? Reading Time: 5 minutes. We refer to these lenses as ‘mental models’. In this sense, mental models are additive.

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Consultant Marketing Brand Sound

Jerry Fletcher

Like most entrepreneurs, particularly inventors, he had no idea of what it takes to start a business from the ground up. Video is what sells is what he believes. tend to take comments about alternatives to the product seriously. What does the product get the buyer? My response was “So what?”