Consulting Matters

JANUARY 14, 2020

Brené Brown is known for her contributions of our understanding of "shame and vulnerability." Marcus Buckingham brought "strengths" to our awareness. Simon Sinek - your "why", Donald Miller - "story brand" and the list goes on. Is power about who has the right job? What's A Big Breakthrough Idea? It's your stance.

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Chad Barr

JANUARY 31, 2024

Then there’s Colonel Sanders, who embarked on his KFC journey at 65. Years ago, while at the helm of my software company, our primary focus was the development of software solutions for the distribution market. This ambitious move, however, revealed a crucial insight: it was more than we were equipped to handle.

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Successful Independent Consulting

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

As self-employed professionals, we’re experts at helping our clients solve problems but we often struggle when it comes to building a healthy pipeline of leads. For most of us, prospecting for new clients is the very last thing we want to do. With fewer in-person events we need some new tactics to get us to “the conversation.”

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 1, 2020

But that doesn't mean we can't celebrate the Fool archetype. To me archetypes are a short-hand way to connect our individual stories to transcendent universal ones. Archetypes the secret behind all the success of the movies that we love. Archetypes the secret behind all the success of the movies that we love.

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Action Plan

APRIL 1, 2024

Yesterday evening, my wife and I had dinner with our friends Ann and Peter Young at their home in Ben Lomond. They are both wonderful people who I initially met while walking my dogs in a nearby park during the pandemic. She’s also the ultimate volunteer who always gives back. Peter is a contractor, musician, and jazz lover.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 21, 2017

I was watching this skit the other day with a good friend of mine who is an actor. When we finally got a hold of ourselves and wiped the tears from our eyes after laughing so hard, he explained that this was so funny because Christopher Walken was just so committed to his role. We are not good at dabbling.’

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Acing the Fit Interview: Strategy and Approach Motivation Questions Effective Storytelling Finessing Negative Stories In the last article of this series, you will learn about complex questions designed to trip up even the best of candidates. Negative Stories Questions that enquire about a weakness or failure can be a point of discomfort.

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Rick Conlow

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

In our drive for success, many times we neglect what’s most important and who is most important. We focus more on the “what” and forget about the “how” As one forward thinking CEO told me recently, “The how matters.” People and our relationships become an afterthought.

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On the Brink Podcast

APRIL 25, 2022

One hand they often reach for is Amy Gardner, our interviewee in today's podcast. A smart woman who has worked in law firms and now with them to help them reimagine their organizations and create teams that work better together than alone. As we all try to navigate our new work culture, her story is well worth a listen.

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Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Our profession isn't a new one. In ancient stories, myths and spiritual traditions, the King always had a Prophet, Mentor, Magician, Guide or Jester that spoke truth to power. It is YOU that can help ignite more than short-term profitability in our stressed out corporate workplaces. But in reality - nice isn't nice.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

We all have them. When I ask why, here are some of the responses I hear: They take too much time away from our “real work.” Our calendars are too full. We can't find a place to meet. If we're back in the office, we have no meeting rooms. Most of us hate them. ” It's too hard to find time to meet.

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The Fearless Marketer

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

We all want to succeed and nobody wants to fail. But there are some really big problems with our ideas of both success and failure. When it comes to marketing your professional services, we’ve all had our share of successes and failures. We win some, we lose some. But we don’t do that, do we?

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 24, 2023

“Resources” instead of the words: people, or human beings Construction metaphors, such as: build, which describes how we organize and create a usable product. ” Metaphors do help us make sense of the world and of our role in that world. Human Beings Do the Work We have all kinds of names for people at work.

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The Fearless Marketer

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

What we often don’t realize is that we need to do this from many different angles. We really need to make a strong case for the value of what we are offering. Stories – Give testimonials or case studies of how your service has improved your clients’ condition. We had lost our spirit.

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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Earlier this year, we shared a list of 31 books on leadership and change. Comprised of books we have found helpful in our careers and ones we often recommend to leaders, the list included recent publications and ones that have stood the test of time. New Books on Leadership and Change. Writing clearly is the new empathy.

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The Fearless Marketer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

I want to suggest that it’s mostly because of the stories you tell yourself about marketing. If you haven’t noticed, you are always telling yourself stories. And the first thing to notice about a story is that it’s not an accurate representation of reality. In fact, more often than not, a story is a gross distortion of reality.

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Markovitz Consulting

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Three days at the AME Conference in Boston showed me that there’s no shortage of skilled, knowledgeable, continuous improvement professionals who can teach their colleagues the intricacies of lean. But the energy, the passion, the emotion, the raison d’etre for the entire lean effort comes from the emotional power of stories.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

I’ve been following the news stories coming out of the Winter Olympics in Beijing these last few weeks. The stories I’ve found most intriguing have been around women’s figure skating. The woman who won silver, Alexandra Trusova (also a teammate with the ROC), was also in tears for failing to win gold. First Name *.

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Rick Conlow

JANUARY 8, 2023

The numbers tell the story. Companies who make customer service a priority make 60% higher profits than rivals. If you’re not serving the customer, your job is to be serving someone who is.” – Jan Carlzon. It’s our job to make the customer experience a little bit better.” as lower rated companies.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

In this episode, we talk about how Ron shifted from working in an organization to working for the best ones, the ideal size of a successful consulting firm, and the effective ways to implement changes in your work so that you are attracting only the most ideal clients. For those who don’t know you, explain what you do.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In this article, we will look at how to conduct what is called ‘ customer development ’ – the process through which a business comes to understand the needs, pain points, and behavior of potential customers through direct conversation and feedback. Most entrepreneurs and product managers (PMs) know that they need to find out what people want.

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 11, 2024

Leaders striving for a better workplace may suffer consequences In a recent post on LinkedIn from the Business & Management Consultants open group, a contributor posted, “A manager who challenges the boss and stands up for their team, despite risking their own career, is a true leader.” Leaders empathize with those who struggle.

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Rick Conlow

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Each contributes to our understanding of life, success, and human experiences. ” — Ralph Waldo Emerson “The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” ” — John Galsworthy “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” ” — Franklin D.

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Seth Godin Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

Dreams have consequences Hisham Matar Time passes, decisions are made, we face the consequences or enjoy the benefits. A few books for this moment, about navigating our days, and the possibility of light. A surprising meditation on what happens when we all know we have a year left. It bends toward justice.

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The Fearless Marketer

MARCH 8, 2021

Last week in my Marketing Action Group we were talking about how insecure most people feel about reaching out to prospective clients. In fact, insecurity permeates every corner of our lives, doesn’t it? When we started our independent careers, we worried if we’d be able to pay the rent. We shall see.

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Seth Godin Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

Dreams have consequences Hisham Matar Time passes, decisions are made, we face the consequences or enjoy the benefits. A few books for this moment, about navigating our days, and the possibility of light. A surprising meditation on what happens when we all know we have a year left. It bends toward justice.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

As we proceed reading, we are gradually unfolding the issue at hand, finding out more circumstantial details about the discussed event. Hence, in order not to risk missing the point of a story due to a literal cut to the article, journalists got straight to the point. The answer for many is a resounding YES.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2023

Project and program managers who support their teams make it possible for the team to succeed. Until schools teach collaboration, most of the people in our industry need to learn how to collaborate. On one notable project, I interrupted the rah-rah part and asked these questions: Who is this product for? The customer focus).

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 29, 2021

One of the biggest stories coming out of the Olympics has been American gymnast Simone Biles withdrawing from multiple events in Tokyo. If you “fail” at this vault, this interview, or this promotion, and you believe your identity = your accomplishments, then who are you? We are all more than our achievements and our jobs.

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Buzzsprout

MARCH 11, 2024

In this step-by-step guide, we will look at what makes show notes an important part of your podcast workflow and why they're worth the extra effort! Show notes also boost your accessibility for listeners who are hard of hearing. Here are a few ways writing show notes can benefit your own podcast.

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Seth Godin Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Unevenly distributed, they’re the sort of thing we miss only when they’re gone. I was stunned to see a sign in Connecticut that listed the names of dozens of highway workers who had been killed in accidents while doing their jobs. Community resources are easy to take for granted. Invisible things are easy to ignore.

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Epicflow

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Following our tradition, we’re excited to sum up and share everything that happened to the Epicflow team in 2023: our clients’ and team’s achievements, new features, and plans for 2024. Read the full success story on our website. We’re looking forward to seeing their first results and sharing them with our readers.

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Action Plan

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In working with clients over the years, we often explored core beliefs that held them back. This belief can lead to a wide range of behaviors that tend to sabotage our efforts. Here are some of the most common ones we explored: 1. Who am I that they would want to talk to me?“ Do you have a story or an example?

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Seth Godin Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Read any business news, and you’ll find stories of unicorns, venture funding and IPOs. Stories of powerful CEOs who are out to change the world. The challenge arises when we take our eyes off of what we set out to build in the first place. It’s simply good at being a car. That’s okay.

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The Management Centre

JANUARY 1, 2023

Maybe because we make these promises after all the festive indulgence, and maybe because of all the summer holiday adverts. Who would want to set themselves up for that? Learn your own mind, try telling new stories: I don’t like quitting. Then tell a different story. I have totally failed to keep most resolutions.

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Seth Godin Blog

JANUARY 3, 2024

We need you. We rush to take it off and get back to doing chores. When we belong to a group that sees us, respects and is counting on us, the best sort of peer pressure arises. Not to do the thing for others, but to do the best version we can for ourselves. Because our peers know we can. Find the others.

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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

And are we able to see how many industries use this playbook to sell us on actions that are against our interests? Peer pressure, the freedom of the Marlboro Man, the social requirements created by the high-status folks who required it… No teenager wants to be left behind by their peers. And yet we resist!

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