David A Fields

JANUARY 21, 2025

Bernies Bagel Empire (BBE) is the perfect client for your consulting firm. Theyre in an industry your consulting firm targets, and Bernie himself revealed in a recent trade magazine article that his company is struggling with the wheaty weighty challenges your consulting firm solves. Theres just one problem: Even though youve consumed their products a … Continued The post The Works-Every-Time Consulting Firm Introduction Email Template appeared first on David A.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 20, 2025

[podcast_headshot url=”[link] How exactly does a classically trained marketer transition from big-budget ad agencies to founding a consultancy that propels private equity portfolio companies to their revenue goals? Summer Craig, founder of Craig Group, joins Michael today to share her journey from corporate roles at HomeAway.com and Gulf States Toyota to building a 23-person growth.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 22, 2025

Gartner research has identified three key challenges for company leaders in the coming year: 1) New demands for a future-ready workforce; 2) The evolving role of managers, and 3) Emerging talent risks for the organization. Within these challenges they offer nine predictions that address ongoing organizational concerns around technology, collaboration, employee retention, AI, knowledge management, and more.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 20, 2025

A group of 76 economists upped their inflation forecasts through 2027.

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Effective Managers

JANUARY 23, 2025

Introduction Cross-functional projects and teams are important mechanisms for success, but also create challenges many organizations face. Properly understanding and implementing cross-functional authority is essential for ensuring smooth operations and effective collaboration. This blog delves into the six types of cross-functional authority defined in my framework, The Effective Point of Accountability, and explores how they enhance workflow and project success.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 22, 2025

How to Optimize Team Potential: A 7-Step Guide for Managers High performing team managers optimize potential by unlocking their teams collective capability. They do what it takes to get their team to fire on all cylinders by effectively holding people accountable to clear roles and responsibilities, aligning skills and strengths, closing gaps, and building strong partnerships with key stakeholders.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 20, 2025

Lessons from FICO.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 18, 2025

The campaign by California to force trucking companies to adopt electric trucks will soon crash.

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Chad Barr

JANUARY 22, 2025

In the digital age, time is one of our most valuable resources. We live in a world overflowing with content, and as professionals, staying informed often means sifting through hours of videos, articles, and discussions to extract meaningful insights. Enter Glasp.co : a remarkable tool that allows users to collect, organize, and share ideas from the web by highlighting text from websites, PDFs, and even YouTube videos.

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 20, 2025

In this episode of Harmonious Workplaces, Rich Cruz, Sharyl Volpe, and Ben Kleinman delve into the pervasive experience of imposter syndrome, often described as a “crisis of confidence.” They explore what it is, how it manifests, its triggers, and ways to combat it. Imposter syndrome is defined as the psychological experience of feeling like a […] The post Ep. 45: Imposter Syndrome / Crisis of Confidence appeared first on Harmonious Workplaces.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 20, 2025

Kick Off a Sales Call with a New Prospect in 120 Seconds in 5 Steps Starting a sales call with a new prospect is a delicate balancing act that sets the tone for the entire conversation in two minutes or less. An effective opening can establish credibility, build rapport , and open the door to meaningful dialogue. Here are practical steps to ensure you make the most of those crucial first moments.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 21, 2025

Showcasing their contributions is essential for their success — and yours.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 23, 2025

Neither New York nor California understands that companies won’t sell products for a loss.

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Seth Godin Blog

JANUARY 22, 2025

For generations, humans have been entrusting their lives to computers. Air Traffic Control, statistical analysis of bridge resilience, bar codes for drug delivery, even the way stop lights are controlled. But computers aren’t the same as the LLMs that run on them. Claude.ai is my favorite LLM, but even Claude makes errors. Should we wait until it’s perfect before we use it?

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 25, 2025

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Alan Weiss

JANUARY 18, 2025

People buy because they need or want something. Success is in fulfilling that want or need. So don’t tell prospects what youdo,the them what you create and how that results in their benefit. Give, don’t take. Is that so hard?

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 23, 2025

While backlash to DEI has challenged how many companies and practitioners approach creating more equitable workplaces, fewer have considered whether DEI work itself has room to improve. A new framework, built around the core outcomes of fairness, access, inclusion, and representation (FAIR) that DEI was supposed to achieve for all, offers a new direction.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 21, 2025

Bitcoin fans were hoping for something other than a clown show of meme coins.

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Seth Godin Blog

JANUARY 20, 2025

Selfish is easy. Short term is easy. Complacent is easy. Turning our head and ignoring the problem is easy. Going along to get along is easy. But easy isnt the point. Better is. Challenging the status quo is difficult, and worth it. Happy Birthday.

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Peter Stark

JANUARY 22, 2025

If you read most blogs today, you are left with the impression that remote and hybrid work is here to stay and an essential part of the new workplace. But then we hear in the news that companies like Amazon, UPS, JPMorgan Chase, and Boeing are mandating the return to the office. This makes it hard to know if it is a trend from COVID that is coming to an end or a new best practice.

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Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC

JANUARY 21, 2025

Please! Im begging you. Stop trying to get future proof. Future Proof: Its a catchy phrase but a really dumb business strategy. Future Proof: Its a catchy term but a really dumb leadership and business strategy. Im not talking about future proofing as it relates to software and computers. Im talking about trying to future […] The post Stop Trying to Get Future Proof!

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This White Paper targets opportunities for Management to develop proficiency in the Decision Framing and Analyses element of input to Decision, & Risk Analyses for Major Project Funding Decisions.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 23, 2025

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MishTalk

JANUARY 18, 2025

Normal trade math does not add up. US imports and China exports are not in sync.

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Seth Godin Blog

JANUARY 23, 2025

“I don’t want to learn to be better,” is something we rarely admit. We don’t say: I don’t want to learn statistics, even though it will dramatically improve my decision making. I don’t want to learn a new programming language, even though it will get me a better job. I don’t want to learn methods for creativity, strategy or marketing, even though they will help me get unstuck.

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Office Skills

JANUARY 20, 2025

Module 3 – How to Improve your Receptionist Attitude Now! In our digital age, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the way receptionists and administrative professionals are doing even simple tasks […] The post Receptionist Attitude – How is yours? appeared first on Office Skills Training.

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