The Management Centre

JANUARY 26, 2023

In this blog we take a look at how to learn from reading, and have book recommendations for you. There are thousands of management and leadership books, on all kinds of topics. Books are particularly useful if you want to take your time to digest ideas and to process information. What do their critics say?

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Steve Shu Consulting

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

For example, people can read books. I am all for further development of those types of resources and educational models, recognizing their benefits, challenges, and limitations. Where students are receptive, I also try to make some time for students to meet me and one another outside of the classroom (e.g.,

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The Management Centre

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Fun activities to include in your online team meetings. Fun activities in team meetings can help our team members connect to each and remind them of all the brilliant people they have on their side. You can include a fun activity in every team meeting if you like but keep it short and focused. Don’t make them a competition.

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 3, 2021

Sure by the end of being coached by you, someone might get rid themselves of false beliefs, bad job or toxic relationships and you might apply your 5-step process in your consulting, but that isn't what is going to get a client to excitedly book a free consult with you to learn more about what you do. Go to Amazon.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 6, 2023

No leader I know sets out to develop bad habits. Here is one leadership development tool that creates the clarity you need to achieve your goals. Some leaders don't even try, pursuing whatever is perceived as most urgent at the moment as they move from meeting to meeting. Best of all, this is totally free.

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Clarity Consultants

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

As a result, there are still challenges to navigate to ensure that higher education institutions can meet the needs of students. Instead of carrying an armload of books, students can reach all of the information they need from a laptop or tablet, reducing a significant physical burden. Contact us today.

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Women in Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

So I gathered my courage and wrote my first book, Subscription Marketing. Here are three things I learned in the process of fulfilling this neglected, longtime ambition: Writing a book deepens your expertise. Most of my adult life, I thought that I had to be an undisputed expert in a topic before I could write a book about it.

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ConsultX

AUGUST 10, 2021

Our list of highly recommended books to help you succeed as a consultant. You can meet the challenges, reclaim your life, and grow your business at the same time. By the end of this book, listeners will have learned how to harness the power of the Internet to make their entrepreneurial dreams come true. But take heart!

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Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

You’ll discover how you can make the most of your CURRENT client engagements and use your success stories to effortlessly meet your next clients. He's the author of a bunch of books and he's worked with world-class companies like Apple and Subaru and so many more and he's a fan of Campbell's Heroes Journey.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 28, 2018

Back in Time You Spend in Agile Meetings (near the bottom of the post), I enumerated all the possible meetings. When the team reduces its WIP, the team might be able to reduce the number of meetings. The Develop and Dev-Done columns are full. Here and in the book, you can see prototype boards. Columns are cheap.

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Markovitz Consulting

APRIL 7, 2020

I really didn’t want to read this book. Yet another deathly dry, turgid, tedious book about lean is not what I need right now. My bookshelves are filled with lean books that provide all the enlightenment of a one-watt bulb. I did get up to make a cup of coffee, which seemed like an appropriate break in a book about Starbucks.)

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Rod Burkert

OCTOBER 9, 2019

On to this week: It’s been said that having a book is the new business card. But what would we write a book about … what topic? The first four guests on my Practice Development INSIDER series. All of them have written a book … multiple books, actually. Why write a book. Then I write a book-book in Q1 2020.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

His work has taken him to over 20 countries in four different continents, and he is the author of several consulting and leadership books as well as a regular contributor to Forbes.com and the Harvard Business Review. Positioning Yourself As The Expert — How To Develop A Consulting Voice That Clients Will Listen To with Ron Carucci.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 10, 2023

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. Books, but that's a much longer effort. I tend to promote my books on podcasts. But you don't need a book to go on a podcast.

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Emerson Consulting Group

JANUARY 10, 2019

Most days we CEOs are caught up fighting fires, initializing paperwork, running to and from meetings and, well, running, running, running. So why would any self-respecting chief executive choose to jump into an even deeper time and energy suck like the prospect of writing a book? What good would it do you? Why should your company care?

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Clarity Consultants

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Here are four effective techniques to best help your employees develop as leaders: Give Them The Tools and Training They Need. The most important tool you can provide is a list of the leadership qualities that you admire and that you want your employees to develop, along with some examples of what those qualities look like in action.

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Halo Psych

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Now there are lots of books and talks that suggest people are more afraid of public speaking than they are of jumping out of a plane. Download my sketchnote of Brene Brown’s 5 ways to be empathetic , from her book Dare to Lead. Sometimes you’ll run late because there’s no time between meetings. I’m not so sure about that.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In their new book, Move Fast and Fix Things, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss outline five strategies to help leaders tackle their hardest problems and quickly make change. Their second strategy is to build — or rebuild — trust with your stakeholders.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 5, 2022

They help to organize the development process so that products meet customer needs and business goals. During this stage, product managers consider how this product will benefit customers, how feasible it is to develop, and how it will impact the business. Designers will also need to consider the best way to develop the product.

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Action Plan

JULY 10, 2023

I recently found a book in my Kindle Library called “ How Clients Buy ” by Tom McMakin and Doug Fletcher. I had bought and downloaded the book in 2020 but neglected to get around to reading it. One of the very best books I’ve encountered on marketing and selling professional services. Mac, I’d love to meet up with you.

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Steve Shu Consulting

MAY 4, 2018

Individual consultants and engagement managers usually develop their own ways of organizing information. Develop interview guides according to the problem solving structure and conduct interviews with the interview guides in mind. Create managerial meeting summaries along the way and file the raw notes.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2018

We all know developing a personal brand is valuable, since a strong reputation can put you on the radar for exciting career opportunities. ” So how can you, as a woman, navigate this conundrum and develop a robust personal brand? Yulia Reznikov/Getty Images. Network both inside and outside your organization.

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 25, 2024

Additionally, I began a mentee relationship with Alan Landers, from whom I learned much about organizational development and change leadership through a certification course offered by The Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. Enable Others to Act  — Build teams, develop others, and make future leaders.

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Rick Conlow

MAY 31, 2023

Our assessment identified a silo mentality throughout the organization and minimal leadership development or training. We addressed the issues with new communication channels, customer service and quality initiatives, on-going quality leadership training for all leaders (executives, too), and team development applications.

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Rick Conlow

MAY 17, 2023

The Container Store offers its employees competitive pay and benefits, as well as a strong focus on training and development. TDIndustries offers its employees a comprehensive wellness program, opportunities for professional development, and a strong commitment to community service. Finally, see Rick’s newest book.

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Women in Consulting

MARCH 4, 2016

She presented on how relationships are formed in this digital era, how to become a thought leader, and offered tips on developing a communication strategy, setting goals, and increasing engagement. Your followers want to know what’s on your mind, who you’re meeting with, and what you’re working on. Develop an engagement strategy.

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Rick Conlow

JANUARY 24, 2023

Besides, they are in too many meetings. In addition, see our RealTime Learning & Training leadership and personal development website -over 230 resources. Finally, see Rick’s newest book. Visit the RCI store: Books & Training Resources. You ask us to do more with less…every year.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2016

These days, most professionals work with clients or colleagues across the globe — which means you’re at a serious disadvantage if you limit your networking efforts to local industry meet-ups or inviting people out to coffee. We all know having a well developed LinkedIn profile is important. You and Your Team Series.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

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. What else will you find in this book? Enjoy the reading!

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The Management Centre

MARCH 31, 2020

To help you make the best of this tricky situation, we’ve gathered together participants’ top tips from =mc’s in-house management development programmes and our internal expertise to help you keep your teams close, even when you are not together. Commit to the ‘meeting’. Never forget or cancel a meeting with your invisible team.

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Markovitz Consulting

JANUARY 12, 2021

Edwards Deming argued in his book Out of the Crisis , 94% of most problems and possibilities for improvement belong to the system, not the individual. Managers meet 30 minutes after that, followed by directors, VPs, and finally the executive team. As legendary statistician and management consultant W.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Developing teamwork skills is a major part of the value you will get from an MBA. During the MBA program, besides attending classes and completing assignments, students also get involved in clubs, competitions, alumni meetings and informational interviews, all while applying for internships and jobs.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2018

The typical board book of a large corporation is a dense PowerPoint presentation spanning hundreds of pages in length. First, board members periodically attend (in an observing capacity only) monthly and quarterly senior management meetings. Staff meetings (R-Staff) are monthly meetings of the top seven leaders.

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Steve Shu Consulting

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

As we approach the year-end, I wanted to share some thoughts from my book, The Consulting Apprenticeship: 40 Jump-Ideas for You and Your Business. The basic value of a Spring Cleaning management team meeting is as follows: The meeting forces people to think proactively. It’s rarely a good idea to treat business as usual.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 21, 2024

Then, in Part 2 , I asked those unemployed agilists to review their functional skills, the skills people need to do a product development job well. I'm not blaming the manifesto writers—no one invited a manager-type person to the meeting. That's why I wonder when agilists tell me they need to do anything “by the book.”

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Girard Training Solutions

MARCH 29, 2024

Even for the most talented person, becoming a manager is a journey of learning and development, which can be difficult at times. In his book Be the Boss Everyone Wants to Work For , he suggests six mindset shifts, or flips, to become a great boss. Develop the ability to influence others and get their support for decisions.

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Rick Conlow

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Taking on new experiences that allow us to confront our fears are the very moments when fear meets courage – and regardless of what happens when these two rivals meet, it is inevitable that an individual will leave that experience better off for bringing a level of bravery to the table. In addition, see Rick’s newest book.

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