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Consulting Tip #6: Use Your Intellectual Property to Build Political Capital

Johanna Rothman

When I saw the McKinsey report on “developer productivity,” I shuddered. Second, there's no way to measure such a thing as developer productivity, despite what McKinsey says. Then I read Lorin Hochstein's brilliant assessment in On productivity metrics and management consultants. Articles on other people's sites.

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Manage Your Intellectual Property

Johanna Rothman

When we manage product development for organizations, we work for hire. The company hires you, pays you a wage, and in return, your intellectual property belongs to them. Books and consulting are all different beasts. You can write a book by yourself. You might have more fun with other people (and I do!)

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How to Become a Go-To Person Within a Consulting Firm

Steve Shu Consulting

Play a key role in developing new intellectual property or approaches for the firm. Pursue mastery in business development if you can (aka sales). Although it depends on your firm, consider writing articles, whitepapers, or books. My team also created an approach for doing wireless spectrum valuation.

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What Writers Can Do About Intended Plagiarism, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

What about a book? Plagiarism of Your Entire Book. Until I started to write books, I had no idea how many people would steal the content of my books. Some reasons are: Putting a book on a torrent site “isn't really stealing.” I spent time writing these books. Why Leave a Book on a Torrent Site.

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Why Consulting Businesses Don’t Scale Easily (& How To Scale Yours)

Tsavo Neal

One way he does this is through his book, Back Mechanic. In Back Mechanic , he distills the essentials of how to fix your back into a book format. The process he takes his patients through in his $1000 assessment can be found in the book. Do you know what Dr. McGill said about his book, Back Mechanic ? And it costs $35.

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PEST Analysis

Tom Spencer

In 1967, Harvard Professor Francis Aguilar wrote a book entitled “Scanning the Business Environment” in which he identified four important factors – Economic, Technical, Political, and Social – that a business can use to better understand the big picture. Understanding the big picture can help reveal hidden opportunities and threats.

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Million Dollar Web Presence – My New Book is Out!

Chad Barr

I am thrilled to share with you that my new book Million Dollar Web Presence – Leverage the web to build your brand and transform your business , which I co-authored with my friend, colleague and partner, Dr. Alan Weiss. is out and available at your local book stores, Amazon , my site and Alan’s. This book is different.