Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

APRIL 7, 2023

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 15, 2018

The greatest marketing tool you have is your network — here’s how to make it work for you. After months of stuttering and having speech and cognitive therapy, Stuart realized that the ability to communicate and the ability to process information and his talent for both was not to be taken for granted.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 23, 2013

If you want to submit a review on a book you’ve been reading, follow the same format, target 600+ words and send it over by email! If you are pondering how management consulting got this far, this book is for you. As another fun fact, 3K MBA degrees were granted in the U.S.A. Quick overview.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 16, 2014

If you are thinking about producing a strategic plan, developing a new product, entering a new market, engaging in a new venture, or financing a project then it probably makes sense to understand the big picture issues that could affect your success. That being said, feel free to use any framework that best suits your purpose.

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Comatch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

If you’ve reached the conclusion that a consultant can get your project over the goal line, then you need to do everything you can to choose the right one. . In order to set your initiative up for success, getting the “fit” between your consultant and your organization right is essential.

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NeoAcademic

APRIL 16, 2021

I also realized 1) there is no centralized record keeping for I-O podcasts and 2) I-O podcasts are hard to search for because most don’t use the words “industrial-organizational” or “I-O” because you obviously don’t want to scare away your audience. Over three thousand people are participating.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

Spoken and written language are easy to take for granted because everyone who is currently alive was born after the invention of both technologies, however the implications of these technologies appear to be an important factor in explaining our ability to survive and thrive as a species. (Source: Flickr ).

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 28, 2017

‘Big data’ is a term that describes the vast amounts information being collected and processed as the world’s technological prowess grows at an astonishing rate. You can see for yourself the growth of big data both as a term and as a tool by checking the Google Trends display of ‘big data’ searches. Is it a fair trade off?

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Alan Weiss

MARCH 28, 2020

What is your best/worst case estimate for getting back to more normal times? But “normal” will have a different aspect to it, as I’m sure you can imagine. Not if your first question is “How can I help you?” Unlike past, analogous situations, we now have very effective technology to use.

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1 to 1

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In challenging times, retaining existing customers and increasing individual share of customer should take priority over acquiring new customers. Do: Give customers a reason to stay (and grow) with you. Don’t take employees for granted. Think you know outsourcing? Any investments need to have guaranteed results.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Adam Grant, organizational psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World , says that “the more complex and creative jobs are, the less it makes sense to pay attention to hours at all.” ” Yet despite all of this, the eight-hour workday still reigns supreme.

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Women in Consulting

MAY 1, 2018

By: Pierre Khawand. :: You may have heard of a productivity method called the Pomodoro Technique , developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. A pre-set kitchen timer will ring once the minutes are up, allowing the user to take a short break before picking the task up again. Or, at least— so we’re told.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 9, 2014

The Advisory Board Company also offers technology, management, and consulting services. As we worked with clients who have been granted positions at this firm, we’ve developed some interesting perspectives on this company. Is The Advisory Board Company is a good company for you to work for?

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Seth Godin Blog

APRIL 5, 2017

Artificial intelligence does a job we weren't necessarily crazy about doing anyway, it does it quietly, and well, and then we take it for granted. This can't help but lead to unintended consequences, enormous when they happen to you, and mostly small in the universal scheme of things.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Many leaders are tempted to take growth for granted when business is good. If you are comfortable with the current performance of your business, chances are that you need a more aggressive business strategy to avoid drifting into some dangerous waters. Don’t Let Your Guard Down. Your Marketplace.

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Halo Psych

MAY 16, 2022

And when you’re leading an organisation through the tumult of the 21st century, it can feel like you’re trying to steer a ship without any navigational equipment, tiller or wheel. A good starting point is to understand what your strengths and weaknesses are so you can then leverage the former and work on the latter.

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Martinka Consulting

MARCH 5, 2015

I mentioned what I called the most important part of the project – training of the teachers on how to best use technology to improve classroom efficiency. The background is Rotary rejected our first grant application for 2015 as we were primarily “giving stuff.” ” They want training. ” Eleanor Roosevelt.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

So you have a Booz & Company interview coming up, and you want to be the best candidate they see? We want you to nail it. Thank you, Edwin Booz. You created not just a firm, but an industry we are all now proud of. Booz & Company Interview and Culture. In the U.S. KEY STATS FOR BOOZ & COMPANY.

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Harvard Business

JULY 16, 2018

When I speak to large groups about leadership, one question I often ask is, “How many of you have ever received a compliment from your boss that actually offended you?” Motivation is not something you do to people. ” Without exception, more than two-thirds of the people in the room raise their hands.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

When Subra Suresh was tapped to lead the National Science Foundation (NSF), in 2010, he saw that many of the pathbreaking discoveries developed through the agency’s grants weren’t finding their way to the marketplace, so he sought to foster better links between government and industry. An Idea Takes Shape. Cat Yu for HBR.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 23, 2017

And just like software engineers who hold code in their head or a law firm partner who controls critical client relationships, the Dana-Farber scientists hold a credible threat of walking out the door with their IP and grant-winning prowess. So how do you jumpstart collaboration without transforming the pay or promotion system?

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Emerson Consulting Group

JULY 31, 2018

If you want to be respected as a “thoughtleader” and if you especially want to add speaking engagements to your marketing repertoire, you must consider writing and publishing a book. Which brings us to the next question: which book publishing option would work best for you? By Ken Lizotte CMC.

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2016

How do you get people to do what they’re supposed to do, particularly when it comes to following standard processes that are essential to getting their job done successfully? Take health care — more specifically, take washing your hands. And does employee monitoring help or hinder these efforts?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2017

My request was granted, sort of. Like many of my classmates, shortly after college, I joined the ranks of a top strategy and management consulting firm. I knew I was signing up for long hours, but the reality of that didn’t really sink until a few months in, when I asked for a vacation day to go to a friend’s wedding.

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Chad Barr

APRIL 10, 2010

You must be asking by now: “Chad, why are you not setting up a filter to remove his email into the trash folder?” Test your various aspects of technology. Make it easy for your audience to contact you. Don’t take success for granted. I can’t get off his newsletter.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Actually, a 30-year-old citizen of the 1970s (yours truly), has experienced a 75% depreciation of his purchasing power. Jim Grant, one of the most gifted financial historians of our day, has long argued that economies did just fine during bouts of deflation in the 18th and 19th centuries – in fact, in many cases, they did better.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Many executives embrace mindfulness and meditation to better cope, while others take prescribed medication or self-medicate to get their jobs done. Soon, face- and voice- recognition technology will almost certainly be good enough to provide a richer experience to these and other use cases. Or perhaps prod you to interrupt less.).

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2017

Wrong thinking is when you intentionally think of the worst idea possible — the exact opposite of the accepted or logical solution, ideas that can get you laughed at or even fired — and work back from those to find new ways of solving old problems. But the best thing you can do is serve other people.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2017

In the aftermath, companies are increasingly adopting sophisticated technologies that can help prevent the intentional or inadvertent export of corporate IP and other sensitive and proprietary data. First, whom are you monitoring? Second, what are you monitoring? Third, where are you monitoring? Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2016

Whether you’re a corporation, a nonprofit or a government agency, chances are that your approach to customer relationships at a system-wide level begins and ends with CRM (customer relationship management) software — yet its implementation rarely does much to foster real relationships. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2017

As popular writer and researcher Adam Grant has noted , the pressure of tight deadlines and the pace of technology mean that fewer Americans are finding friendship in the workplace. Sharpen Your Skills in Noticing Suffering. He began by simply asking, “How are you doing, Ming-Jer?”

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Urbanization (the concentration of startups and venture capital investment in cities — predominantly large, globally connected ones), and a Winner-Take-All Pattern (with the leading cities pulling away from the rest). Winner-Take-All Geography. The Great Expansion. Urbanization.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2018

You can, for example, say “sorry” to a customer too many times. Even if you’re a member of the company’s team, it is often better to say “I” than “we.” For instance, saying “How can I help you?” ” outperforms “How can we help you?”).

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In past years, we heard mostly from startup founders and academics — people who pay attention to early, far-reaching trends in technology. As with the internet in the 1990s, executives are realizing that this new technology could change everything, but nobody knows exactly how or when. ”). But this year was different.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. When you consider that the alternative is having employees spend hours pouring over complex data sets or equally inaccessible data visualizations, the value of advanced NLG starts to come into sharp focus. You: A summary is fine. Insight Center. Sponsored by SAS.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2017

As Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant argue in their recent book , we can think of resilience as a sort of muscle that contracts during good times and expands during bad times. You and Your Team Series. Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure. How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

” 2) Do-It-Yourself: “You can read Deborah’s bio in the program book.” ” 3) Regurgitation: “Let me read to you what’s in Deborah’s bio.” ” 2) Do-It-Yourself: “You can read Deborah’s bio in the program book.”

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