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Finding the Time to Write a Book

Women in Consulting

. :: Thinking of writing a book? Writing a book can transform a career, opening up new possibilities and expanding your reach. By the time you’ve accumulated the wisdom to share in a book, you’re often busy doing whatever you’re good at. Unless you plan to pen a post-career memoir, you may not feel you have time to write a book.

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Technical Women Are Software Managers

Johanna Rothman

One of my reviewers for the Modern Management Made Easy books asked a fascinating question: I've never seen this many women in management or in senior leadership positions. They acted as if they were indispensable or 10x developers. I started to travel internationally as a consultant in the late 1990s. And, the managers?

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How to Win with Automation (Hint: It’s Not Chasing Efficiency)

Harvard Business

In much the same way, nobody calls a travel agency to book a simple flight anymore. So a lot of people were surprised when it launched a brick and mortar book store , but as Apple has shown with its highly successful retail operation, there’s a big advantage to having stores staffed with well trained people.

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The Myth of a Psychologically Safe Workplace

Organizational Talent Consulting

link] Psychological Safety Myth Buster #3: Build Capacity Like physical endurance and strength can be enhanced with training, your capacity for changing your leadership habits can improve with development. Getting to where you are going I learned an important life lesson on a business trip to Puerto Rico, traveling with a good friend.

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15 Best Business Podcasts for Independent Consultants

Tsavo Neal

Podcasts make amazing listening material for commutes, travel, and listening for when you don’t feel like taking out a book. We discuss what actually works in generating business, from writing books to organizing events to old-fashioned relationship building. Magazine Contributor John Nemo! The results were astonishing.

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Future of Healthcare: Virtual and Augmented Reality

Tom Spencer

Albert “Skip” Rizzo, Director of Medical Virtual Reality at the Institute of Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California, is using artificial intelligence and virtual reality to develop patient simulations complete with personalities and accurate clinical circumstances. Conclusion. Images: Flickr , Flickr.

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Doubling a $400,000 Revenue Model With Business Trainer Blair Enns: Podcast #22

Consulting Success

At 22, six months into my tenure in the profession, he put me in charge of business development for this independent ad agency that also owned a public relations firm. I worked in the advertising side and the design side doing account management, running offices and doing business development. I fumbled my way through that too.