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Consulting Tip #7: Beware of Other People Using Your Intellectual Property for Their Exposure

Johanna Rothman

No payment for my time or my IP (Intellectual Property). They wanted my intellectual property for their exposure. For example, I'm doing a webinar on November 30 where the value is primarily promotion for my new book. See Project Lifecycle Workshop: How to Manage Project Risks to Release Successful Products.)

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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. That makes so much sense.

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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. When you’re creating a product larger than one person can create, this is an excellent proposition. You can write a book by yourself.

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Business Book Review: Lords of Strategy

Management Consulted

We’re starting a series of guest posts offered by staff, readers and interns that are reviews of books we think are helpful for those interested in consulting (specifically) and business (in general). If you want to submit a review on a book you’ve been reading, follow the same format, target 600+ words and send it over by email!

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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. With Back Mechanic, Dr. McGill has taken his expertise and created a product out of it.

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From Inception to Fruition

Chad Barr

Many of us struggle to bring products from that initial idea phase to actual completion. First of all, I’m thrilled to announce the debut of three new books that together encapsulate my most valuable advice about web strategy. Use your creativity to repurpose and retarget old products, adding fresh content to make them new again.