Tue.Jan 31, 2023

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Your Next Mindset Shift as a Consulting Firm Leader

David A Fields

Consulting firm leaders traverse an interesting, attitudinal path, with numerous inflection points. If you’re like the majority of leaders, your thoughts about parts of your consulting practice will shift dramatically as your firm grows. Why is knowing a typical progression important? Imagine two different teams attempt the same escape room (at different times).

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Use a Professional Email Account to Boost Perceptions, Pay, and Profit

Successful Independent Consulting

Conveying a professional image is critical to maximizing pay and profit when you’re self-employed. One of the easiest and most affordable ways to be perceived as a professional is to use a business email address. If you’re using an email that ends with @gmail, @hotmail, or @outlook, or a “fake business email” like JohnDoeConsulting@gmail.com , you’re shooting yourself in the foot.

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Discover The Growing Your Business Secret Born In A Cow Barn

Henry DeVries

Learn from experts about where you aim your focus making all the difference in a happy business life. This reminded me of a valuable lesson my father taught me back on the family dairy farm.

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A Deeper Understanding of Creativity at Work

Harvard Business

BetterUp’s Gabriella Rosen Kellerman and the University of Pennsylvania’s Marty Seligman on finding new paths to good ideas.

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PowerPoint Best Practices for Creating Stellar Presentations

Mastering data visualization in PowerPoint will help accelerate your career because it positions you as someone who can present data that drives business decisions forward. think-cell's PowerPoint Best Practices eBook was created specifically for professionals aiming to master the art and science of data-driven storytelling. What’s inside: Practical Insights: Uncover valuable tips for crafting engaging and persuasive presentations.

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Get/Want/Have To

Seth Godin Blog

Get to, want to and have to are an endless braid. How much of our time do we spend on each? Have to is often up to someone else. The things we’re required to do by the system or the people in it. Get to is a matter of perspective. Trust and health and leverage and privilege allow us to do certain things that others might not. And want to is a choice, and is often squandered.

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We're Thrilled To Receive The International Elite 100 Award Honoring Outstanding Leadership In Corporate Anthropology

Simon Associates

I'm pleased to announce that Simon Associates Management Consultants has won the 2023 International Elite 100 Award for Corporate Anthropology Consultancy of the Year. This prestigious recognition is awarded by the UK-based International Elite 100 organization whose objective is "to s howcase the extraordinary power to lead from the front and to honor all those who strive harder to achieve quality.

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Top 11 Must-Read Project Management Books

Epicflow

Becoming a competent and sought-after project manager is impossible without constant professional development. At the same time, the amount of information in any domain is unprecedentedly huge – courses, books, education websites, blogs, etc. It takes time to familiarize yourself with all these materials, and what is more, their quality isn’t always worthy.

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8 Strategies for Chief Data Officers to Create — and Demonstrate — Value

Harvard Business

Because the role is poorly understood, CDOs need to show how they add value to their organizations.

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4 Key Takeaways From My INTIX Panel on the Customer Journey and Embedded Protection

Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

On January 26th, 2023 at INTIX, I led a panel with Joe Calanan from Cover Genius, Jo-Ann Chiam from AudienceView, and Kelley Monts de Ocas from Playhouse Theatre to discuss the impact of embedded protection as tool to get customers buying tickets again. From marketing perspective, there were some interesting takeaways that I wanted to share: 61% of ticket buyers are going for the content, not the price : This is consistent with my research.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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How a Parent’s Experience at Work Impacts Their Kids

Harvard Business

A multi-year study following more than 370 low-wage families found that children’s developmental outcomes were significantly affected by their parents’ work lives.

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Addressing Racial Discrimination on Airbnb

Harvard Business

How can platform companies, like Airbnb, reduce bias online?

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