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Narrow Your Niche to Win More Work as a Solopreneur

Successful Independent Consulting

Here is a snippet from his resumé: Professional Summary and Services Jack Tradesmith is a senior consultant with professional experience in organization development and change, leadership and organizational communications, and coaching, as well as internal and external corporate communications, including global marketing initiatives.

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10 Must Read Books for a Business Consultant

ConsultX

Our list of highly recommended books to help you succeed as a consultant. A one-stop turnaround plan, Conquer the Chaos lays out a complete path to make your business run smoothly and provide you with the freedom you desire. Conquer the Chaos - Clate Mask & Scott Martineau Crush It! But take heart! Conquer the Chaos shows you how.

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Saving RadioShack

Tom Spencer

When the business landscape changes, how can you turnaround a failing company? Assuming this leads to successful refinancing, what should the strategy be to turnaround and save this iconic company? When faced with a broad turnaround question, it is important to ask a variety of questions to determine the source of the problem.

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AlixPartners Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

AlixPartners is an international business advisory firm based in Southfield, MI known for its work in corporate turnarounds, bankruptcy assignments and restructuring. Generally regarded as turnaround market leaders, AlixPartners is doing a killer job at taking up more room in the consulting space by strategically hiring a plethora of gurus.

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Small Steps or Big Steps: What’s the Right Way to Begin Improvement?

Markovitz Consulting

He describes his “shock and awe” approach (my terminology) in his excellent book The Lean Turnaround , where he takes the company through several week-long kaizen events. In the same way, I believe that you have to develop the organizational muscles required for continuous improvement through small steps. [as

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As Work Changes, Leadership Development Has to Keep Up

Harvard Business

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. Consider how IBM has tackled new ways of work distribution as described in Lead The Work: Navigating a World Beyond Employment , a book which one of us, Ravin, co-authored. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Insight Center.

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Common Project Challenges – and how to deal with them

The Management Centre

As a first step book in a meeting with your Project Sponsor. Talk through options for communicating better, aiming to ensure the Project Sponsor has the right information at the right time and an agreed turnaround time. To develop your project management skills further, take a look at our Project Management Programme.

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