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. This necessitates a new generation of productivity apps that help us practice mindfulness at work. The technique allows a user to choose a task and focus on it for 25-minute intervals.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MAY 8, 2023

This article provides insights into the proven benefits of a servant leadership style for businesses and employees, the dimensions and characteristics that set servant leaders apart, and an example of servant leadership from a global leader in the business services and supplies industry. Journal of Leadership Studies , 7(3), 18-40.

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Leadership Journal Pharmaceuticals Study 68

Business Consulting Agency

JANUARY 30, 2024

This article explores how consulting services contribute to the success of startups, small businesses, and larger enterprises, supported by facts, statistics, and real-world examples. Startups that engage business consultants are 14% more likely to experience sustained growth, as reported by the Global Business and Economics Research Journal.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 16, 2023

The purpose of this article is to suggest five habits that employees can adopt in the workplace to embrace the spirit of innovation. Seeking advice from external experts is often a faster and more reliable way to learn what you need to know than reading newspapers, academic journals, or trade publications.

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How To Healthcare Knowledge Base Productivity 78

Organizational Talent Consulting

MAY 15, 2023

This article provides three practical steps to help you develop your character strengths and pass your next character test. Leadership character is shown to align the leader-follower relationship, increasing both leader and follower productivity, effectiveness, and creativity. Leadership & Organization Development Journal.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 18, 2023

To do this, they should possess a keen understanding of the client’s target market and existing customer base, as well as the ability to recommend clear and actionable strategies to increase sales, expand the customer base, and develop new product offerings that will appeal to customers.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 15, 2022

This article outlines the differences in time commitments for graduate students versus full-time consultants. In industry, you exchange your time to build and sell products and services. You did not read enough articles? Budget more time next week for journal articles. Time Commitments in Consulting.

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Markovitz Consulting

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The Wall Street Journal recently wrote about Larry Culp’s efforts to turn around faltering General Electric. According to the WSJ article, Culp is often away from GE’s headquarters, visiting manufacturing plants to see how employees work and how the operations are running. Or some Japanese thing that only works for car manufacturers.

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Operations Journal Metrics Finance 100

Tsavo Neal

MARCH 30, 2017

When is the last time you read a helpful blog article that gave you actionable advice to improve your consulting business? Chances are, this answer would be found in the form of a blog article. This article lists what I consider to be the best blogs on consulting. You’ll be sure to find some help. Want to Get More Clients?

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Martinka Consulting

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Ted Lasso this, Ted Lasso that, it doesn’t take much effort to find articles or podcasts on management based on Ted Lasso. Those who read this memo regularly know I pull a lot of my content from the headlines so when I saw the Wall Street Journal’s August 16, 2021 Journal Report on The New Workplace it felt like a cornucopia of content.

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Management Journal Operations Industry 40

Martinka Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

I hadn’t thought about this in way-too-many years until I saw a headline in the Wall Street Journal on July 26 that said, “Supply Chains Pinch School Menus.” The article mentioned one company “gambling” on stockpiling fruit without knowing what the schools would be ordering. It also changes due diligence for business buyers.

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Transportation Journal Operations Productivity 40

Organizational Talent Consulting

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Reflection facilitates learning, provides perspective on self-limiting beliefs when used purposefully, and improves productivity. Evidence suggests spending 15 minutes a day improves productivity by as much as 23% more than those without reflection time. International Journal of Educational Management, 15(3), 119-124.

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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Background : Rite Aid bought 131-year-old Seattle institution Bartell Drugs earlier this year and according to this article it’s been a disaster. Remember, these are things mentioned in the article and are not confirmed. Remember, these are things mentioned in the article and are not confirmed. Enough said.

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Culture Journal Small Business Retail 40

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Product returns are a costly problem for retailers. customers return a hefty $264 billion worth of products annually—almost 9% of total sales. In online retailing, most products are returned because customers aren’t satisfied with what they get—but this isn’t necessarily due to product defects.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MAY 22, 2023

This article provides insights on what executive coaching is and is not, evidence-based benefits, the coaching process, virtual coaching, what makes an excellent executive coach, and more. Journal of Leadership Education, 1 (2). Consulting Psychology Journal, 53 (4), 205-228. Journal of Work Applied Management, 11 (2), 143-164.

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Journal Leadership Ethics Emotional Intelligence 61

Martinka Consulting

APRIL 17, 2020

In December 2019 the Wall Street Journal had an article titled, “ American Factories Demand White-Collar Education for Blue-Collar Work. ” The article summarizes what I regularly see, an increase in advanced machinery, more production with fewer workers, and the need for smarter workers. Signs abound seeking workers.

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Education Journal Small Business System 40

Organizational Talent Consulting

JUNE 6, 2022

Strengthening organizational commitment maximizes employee productivity, job performance, and emotional well-being. Journaling. Use a journaling app like Day Oneservant'sto capture your thoughts, feelings, successes, and frustrations. International Journal of Leadership Studies, 1 (2), 6-66. Increased employee creativity.

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Leadership Journal Change Management Study 52

Chad Barr

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Your words become your tweets which become your articles which become your books, workshops and products which become your intellectual property and your digital empire. May: Are you journaling often? March: Share your insights, knowledge, experience and wisdom with others. April: Don’t take your security for granted.

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Intellectual Property Journal Trends Talent 52

Martinka Consulting

JULY 8, 2020

A few months ago, the Wall Street Journal had an article on Boeing’s recent problems titled, “The Gang That Couldn’t Fly Straight. I’m not qualified to analyze Boeing’s issues and the article made it seem they made some decisions based on numbers versus the planes or the people. It covered how Boeing got so off track.

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Sales Journal Trends Analysis 40

Tom Spencer

JULY 12, 2013

For an in-depth look at competitive response in the pharmaceutical industry, take a look at “ Competitive Response to Radical Product Innovations ”, an article in the May 2008 Journal of Marketing. Case scenario is a derivation from a practice case provided by The Boston Consulting Group.

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Case Interview Boston Consulting Group Pharmaceuticals Interviews 102

Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

A December 2, 2016 Wall Street Journal article was titled, “ Car Sales Roll Along; Aided by Discounts.*” The gist of the article was sales are up over the same month a year earlier and the average discount was 11%, versus 9.4% It costs more money to provide quality products and services. George Carlin. *

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Conventional wisdom suggests that marketers should emphasize the novelty of new products to get people to buy them. Despite the fact that firms spend billions of dollars on developing and marketing new products, these products face persistently high failure rates — often up to 40% to 90%, depending on the product category.

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Productivity Advertising Study Marketing 28

Martinka Consulting

MARCH 21, 2018

On December 30, 2017 the Wall Street Journal featured a column by Daniel Pink, How to Be Healthier, Happier and More Productive: It’s All in the Timing, which was an excerpt from his new book When, The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing. I’ve started reading the book and found this article to be an excellent introduction to the book.

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Exercises Journal Study Productivity 40

CaseInterview.com

JANUARY 26, 2021

For example, if half the audience thinks the business is growing and the other half thinks it’s shrinking, it’s really difficult to have a productive conversation, as the audiences are operating from two completely different mental starting points. I find that so much of what passes for journalism today is really just opinions in disguise.

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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The Wall Street Journal and others recently reported about an accounting expert who had predicted the Madoff Ponzi scheme and recently went after GE for what he said are their deceptive accounting practices (of course, GE responded this person didn’t know what he was talking about).

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Financial Cash Flow Real Estate Metrics 40

Martinka Consulting

APRIL 4, 2018

On January 13, 2018 the Wall Street Journal published an article by Morten T. The second level headline of the article includes the line, “ most top performers…have one thing in common: they accept fewer tasks and obsess over them.”. Here are a few things I gleaned from the article. Hansen titled, “ The Key to Success?

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Evidence suggests a positive link between higher levels of employee intrinsic motivation and work productivity. Greenleaf & Spears To learn more about servant leadership , check out this article with an assessment to help you measure if your current leadership style aligns with servant leadership and the ten leadership characteristics.

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How To Leadership Video Strategy 67

Martinka Consulting

JULY 14, 2021

I looked at the title of a recent article by Joanna Stern in the Wall Street Journal and felt it was either aimed directly at me or I could have written it. Most of us aren’t selling a SaaS product or similar, we’re dealing with people. The title is, “ To Fight Video Call Fatigue, Pick Up the Phone.” .

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Martinka Consulting

JULY 18, 2018

The May 21, 2018 Wall Street Journal had a special section titled, “ C-Suite Strategies.” Here’s the last paragraph of the article. Here are some other insights from the interview: Branding works – Simon said millennials like brand name products (like most of us), if the price is close. It’s where repeat business comes from.

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Sports Trends Journal Interviews 40

Martinka Consulting

MARCH 6, 2019

I mention this because of a Wall Street Journal article from last year titled, “ Technology Spells End Of Roughneck Boom. ” The good news is he didn’t get rid of the employees he had them do productive marketing work to grow the business. We’re going through something similar. We just upgraded to Salesforce.

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Efficiency Hotels Journal Construction 40

Martinka Consulting

APRIL 10, 2017

In mid-2016 the Wall Street Journal published an article titled, “Demand Swells for Chickens That Grow More Slowly.” ” The gist of the article is companies (Whole Foods, Starbucks, and others) believe customers will pay more for products from birds that grow slower (than those full of hormones and other additives).

Management 40

Management Journal Retail Sales 40

Rod Burkert

JULY 9, 2018

In case you missed the new news, here is the drop-the-mic Philadelphia Business Journal article that we should not laugh off … cannot ignore … and must not turn a blind eye to. TD Bank vetted the product with some of its small business customers before agreeing to the contract with BizEquity. BizEquity is in the news again.

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Banking Journal Small Business Report 40

Martinka Consulting

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

I read a short article recently where the writer was describing his frustrating experience when making a food and beverage order, which he repeated twice, had it said back to him, and it still was wrong. The article also mentions reduced drug testing and reduced background checks. It’s really hard to find good people and keep them.

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Martinka Consulting

AUGUST 6, 2018

On June 2, 2018 Jason Zweig’s article in the Wall Street Journal was titled, “ The Fanciful Alphabet Soup Companies Use to Fool You.” The premise of the article was most of the financial jargon used to provide insights into companies’ health are make-believe and don’t reflect actual conditions, i.e. true profitability.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 30, 2016

Last week I wrote an article about Tribune Publishing’s reincarnation as Tronc and the poorly thought-out video that the company released, describing its efforts. As best I could tell, the article was well received and many people, even those employed at Tronc, seemed to think I got it right. Everything else is optimization.

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Journal Talent Video Productivity 29

CaseInterview.com

JANUARY 26, 2021

For example, if half the audience thinks the business is growing and the other half thinks it’s shrinking, it’s really difficult to have a productive conversation, as the audiences are operating from two completely different mental starting points. I find that so much of what passes for journalism today is really just opinions in disguise.

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McKinsey Case Interview Media Analysis 81

Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

This, most probably, is what Vasquez meant when she said that the firm plans “to harness the power of our local journalism, feed it into a funnel, and then optimize it so we reach the biggest global audience possible.” Algorithms are not agnostic, but tend to favor certain types of articles over others.

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