Productivity Boost for Consultants
Consulting Success
MARCH 22, 2018
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Business Book Review: The 4-Hour Work Week
Management Consulted
JANUARY 31, 2014
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! This is not your typical time management book. Quick overview This book serves as an opportunity for a paradigm shift of how people perceive life, career, money and retirement. Why read it?
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Business Ecosystems: Building Stronger Connections
Tom Spencer
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Apple’s and Amazon’s product lines are showcase examples of how to build a business ecosystem. In short, it means that companies are expanding beyond their traditional core products in order to increase opportunities for cross-selling and to boost customer ownership. Not likely.
Time travel is exhausting
Seth Godin Blog
MAY 10, 2019
Writing a book (all caps, WRITING A BOOK) or preparing for a TED talk (already in all caps) can paralyze an ordinarily productive person. On the other hand, a book feels permanent. And so, when you sit to write your book (or your blog, for that matter), you imagine who’s going to read it, one day in the future.
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Finding the Time to Write a Book
Women in Consulting
AUGUST 31, 2016
. :: 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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It’s my birthday and I got you a gift (The Complete Independent Consulting Manual)
Kai Davis
JANUARY 26, 2023
You can download the book in epub, mobi, and PDF with all 25 articles from 12 authors and watch the six expert roundtable videos on YouTube with almost five hours of content. You can download a zip file of the book and watch the videos on YouTube. The Independent Consulting Manual is now 100% free. All for free.
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The Price is Right: Decoding the Art of Product Pricing
Tom Spencer
MARCH 8, 2024
One of the most common problems business leaders face is how to price a product. From entrepreneurs putting a new product on the market to executives at a public company revamping a product line, effective pricing is a key pillar of any successful sales and marketing strategy.
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Three Possibilities to Move from Power Over to Power With
Johanna Rothman
APRIL 15, 2022
The directors asked, “What do we do about the people who travel? Are they supposed to wait and travel on Monday night or Tuesday? We will still conduct monthly or bi-monthly workshops, where we will workshop roadmaps, backlogs, architecture, and other product decisions in person. Managing Product Development Blog.
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Technical Women Are Software Managers
Johanna Rothman
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
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. I started to travel internationally as a consultant in the late 1990s. See Book 2 for what you can do about that myth.). Let me offer a little history.
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Go Faster Alone but Farther Together
Chad Barr
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
A shared vision and the collective creativity of its employees, proving that the journey farther is one best traveled together. Get your copy of my latest new books available now on my Amazon’s author page. Remember: your fastest strides may be taken alone, but the furthest you will go, you’ll go together.
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Leadership Tip #13: For Innovation, Remove at Least One Policy or Procedure a Week
Johanna Rothman
AUGUST 12, 2021
As the organization changes (both products and tooling), people might not make those mistakes again. About a decade ago, an organization suffered three consecutive bad deployments to production. Finally, one large change broke the production server. Or have those same risks. Yet, the policies and procedures remain.
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5 Smart Strategies to De-Stress & Accelerate Any Career or Business Transition
Consulting Matters
JANUARY 8, 2020
Step 4: Productively Engage Fear. Click here to book your session now. Then translate those aspirations into intentions that your career/business must deliver for you such as: Uncapped earning potential. Location independence. Unlimited creative freedom. Time freedom. Scalability. More time alone/time for reflection.
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177 Doubling a $400,000 Revenue Model With Business Trainer Blair Enns: Podcast #22
Consulting Success
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
In this episode, we are talking about ways that you can effectively position yourself as an expert in your field, how to get your expertise recognized, and the danger of productizing your work, as well as what you should be doing instead. It forced me to put a stake in the ground. It just appeared that he was a guy who could come in.
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Diversify and Create Multiple Income Streams as a Consultant with Dorie Clark: Podcast #11
Consulting Success
OCTOBER 16, 2017
Dorie is the author of several popular business books — Entrepreneurial You, a guidebook about how you can make money doing what you love, Reinventing You, a book on professional reinvention, and Stand Out, how to become a recognized expert in your field. That was when her first book, Reinventing Yourself, was born.
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The Secret Sauce to a Superior Customer Experience
Rick Conlow
MARCH 22, 2023
I travel often. Websites that are unresponsive or marketed products that are unavailable. If so, check out my new book, Superstar Leadership Model: Good Boss Bad Bos Which One are YOU? A superior customer experience is rare. As a result, I live the best and worst customer experience’s companies have to offer.
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Inspiration
Chad Barr
APRIL 3, 2019
This weekend we will travel to Columbus to share in the installation of our son-in-law, Rabbi Hillel Skolnik, as the senior clergy of a large congregation. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” Get your copy of my latest new books available now on my Amazon’s author page.
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How to Treat Your Business as the Ultimate Job Promotion
Consulting Matters
JANUARY 20, 2020
If you want your own business so you can travel, book your trips first. If you rest up and restore your strength and vitality you'll gain the time back through your increased productivity. Encouraging them to sign up for your list. Serving them with regular value. Offering a free consult. #4
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Organizational structure for remote teams
Asamby Consulting
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
When employees have less distractions at work, it increases their productivity and performance, resulting in a better profitability for the organization. With the lack of an office environment, employees working alone could have a sense of isolation, which might lead to low productivity.
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The Year at a Glance
Chad Barr
DECEMBER 30, 2015
Traveled the world, met some amazing people, and attended some outstanding growth developmental experiences. Help our clients create thousands of pieces of remarkable content and products such as eBooks , subscription services , video books and online training , by leveraging our Creating Global Digital Empires® service.
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Improve Business with Technology!
Women in Consulting
AUGUST 28, 2014
Technology can help increase productivity and provide convenience in running a business. Hootsuite – Hootsuite helps you improve productivity by managing all of your social networks within one area, the “dashboard” which is designed for you and your team to engage from one simple interface. Business Travel.
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Minto Pyramid Principle
CaseInterview.com
JUNE 11, 2019
Student Question: Recently I came across a book called 'The Minto Pyramid' , you might know this book, by Barbara Minto, ex-McKinsey. Hypothesis 1.1.3 – We can introduce a new product. Would you recommend me to use MINTO principle??? Would you recommend this and what is your view about this as a past interviewer?
AlixPartners Interviews and Culture
Management Consulted
JANUARY 25, 2016
Consumer Products. Even for such a high travel firm, which we’ll discuss below, they all seem to be so gosh darn chummy with each other. Travel – Now don’t get us wrong, warning a prospective consultant about travel is a bit like warning trainee surgeon that they may see blood once in a while. Effectiveness.
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4 Lessons Learned Outside the Classroom during an MBA
Tom Spencer
DECEMBER 12, 2020
By setting daily reminders you can automate the process, and ensure that you don’t double book yourself and are always where you need to be. At the same time, by travelling and consulting abroad, you can learn about ways of conducting business in different continents. During these times your best friend will become Google Calendar.
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Don’t Drive (Your Business) Over the Curb
Martinka Consulting
JUNE 12, 2019
Owners travel a road every day and their road has curbs. The industry is shrinking – as in the product is dying a slow death. The industry is shrinking – as in the product is dying a slow death. Possible solution: get other territories or product lines. The wider the road the better.
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Venezuela Strengthens Currency Controls in Impossible Mission to Stop Capital Flight; Airlines Collapse; End of the Line
MishTalk
JANUARY 23, 2014
In an effort to get money out of Venezuela, airline ticket sales had been booked solid for months. The exchange rate for foreign travelers was just set to is 11.36 Please consider Venezuela Bonds Plunge After Bolivar Weakened for Travel. One airline cancelled all flights. On the currency side, the official exchange rate is 6.3
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??? Happy New Year: Predictions, Takeaways, and Thank you!
Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog
JANUARY 1, 2023
We will see a rebound in markets with heavy tourist-centered economies: International travel will rebound in 2023 and the data seems to point towards traditional tourist markets getting some relief. Peak travel is down on commuter lines by about 40% or more in cities like DC, NYC, and Boston. Linktree : Find everything I’m up to.
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Are You Creating Adventures in Your Life?
Chad Barr
APRIL 5, 2017
Whenever I travel, I’m always looking for something adventurous to do: climb mountains, find the best view of the sunset, explore local gardens. What existing products and services can you improve upon, adjust, or tweak in an exciting way? Are there certain products or services that no longer serve your customers?
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Thinking About a “Work from Anywhere” Arrangement? Ask These Questions First
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 26, 2017
Becoming location-independent and traveling the world is more possible than ever. But, as I discuss in my book Entrepreneurial You , a location-independent lifestyle is perfect for some professionals — and completely wrong for others. Try a travel pilot. For many of us, travel has always meant vacation. Paul Axtell.
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4 Financial Innovations to Make Business Easier
Tom Spencer
NOVEMBER 22, 2015
Products like: Mint , which can allow a business to link up all of its electronic transactions in a way that makes sense. Aside from working on her own business, she likes to use social media, and read travel books. Any business that wants to streamline its finances should consider online banking. Finance Tools.
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The Ansoff Matrix
Tom Spencer
OCTOBER 8, 2013
THE Ansoff Matrix (referred to by some commentators as the Product/Market Expansion Grid) was developed by a Russian-American mathematician named Igor Ansoff , and first explained in his 1957 Harvard Business Review article entitled Strategies for Diversification. What is a Product-Market Growth Strategy? Background.
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Tom Spencer
NOVEMBER 8, 2015
These are great for: Trial marketing a new brand, product, or testing out a new region. Aside from working on her own business, she likes to use social media, and read travel books. Below are five (5) tips on converting a vacant spot into a high-revenue lease property. Selling seasonable items (e.g. Christmas, Halloween, etc).
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Is Your Business Ready to be Sold?
Martinka Consulting
FEBRUARY 19, 2021
I sent him an email during his talk saying he must be reading from my book, If They Can Sell Pet Rocks Why Can’t You Sell Your Business (For What You Want?). Here are the intermixed highlights from Brian and the book, with Brian’s direct comments in quotation marks. Is it expertise, the products, services, process, or IP?
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The Myth of a Psychologically Safe Workplace
Organizational Talent Consulting
MARCH 20, 2023
Challenger safety – This is the last stage when others are able to provide constructive criticism and engage in productive conflict without fear of exclusion or retaliation. 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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59 4 Autopsies of Big Change Management Failures
LSA Global
APRIL 18, 2017
Yes, the “old fashioned” bookstores all struggle to compete with online book sales but Borders had additional challenges they failed to meet. Their customers would have used them for books from small publishers, not CD or DVDs and not books from large presses to the exclusion of small. The company failed on multiple fronts.
For Some Platforms, Network Effects Are No Match for Local Know-How
Harvard Business
JULY 26, 2018
For example, Uber and Grab link riders and drivers, Airbnb links hosts and travelers, and Amazon links shoppers and sellers. Any platform still needs to achieve a product-market fit to succeed in the long run. But Grab’s triumph over Uber illustrates that size is more a consequence of success than the direct source of it.
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35 Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure
Harvard Business
JUNE 24, 2016
As constant travelers and parents of a 2-year-old, we sometimes fantasize about how much work we can do when one of us gets on a plane, undistracted by phones, friends, and Finding Nemo. Take all of your paid time off, which not only gives you recovery periods, but raises your productivity and likelihood of promotion.
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53 Senior Executives Get More Sleep Than Everyone Else
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
Leadership & Managing People Book. Of course, with intense travel and work commitments, sometimes this is compromised, and when that happens, it comes with a cost. That blue light suppresses your pineal gland, and in turn, the production of melatonin. Further Reading. The Mind of the Leader. Harvard Business Review.
Seth's Blog: Hoarding information
Seth Godin Blog
MAY 31, 2013
Seths Books. Check out Seths books. Books by Seth Godin. SETHS BOOKS. Seths most important book about the art of marketing. The Book Depository (Free Worldwide Delivery). An instant bestseller, the book that brings all of Seths ideas together. The Book Depository (Free Worldwide Delivery).
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How to Launch a Successful Portfolio Career
Harvard Business
MAY 4, 2017
An expert in banking regulation or solar energy production — or any other niche, challenging area — will find good opportunities to apply their skills. Is it flexibility and less travel? The book contract you finally land has an 18-month deadline. Be clear on why. The opportunity to give back?
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33 How to Rediscover Your Inspiration at Work
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 5, 2017
There are lots of ways to gather these – take a class, read a book, attend professional gatherings, travel. You might commit to traveling once every six months or take a few hours every Friday morning to read articles and books or set a goal to meet three new people in your field each quarter.
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47 Radical Transparency Can Reduce Bias — but Only If It’s Done Right
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 10, 2017
Another is Dalio’s philosophy of “radical transparency,” a topic he discusses in his new book, Principles. As Tasha Eurich writes in her 2017 book, Insight , about 95% of us think we have strong self-awareness, but only about 10% to 15% of us actually possess it. ” Research supports Franklin’s assertion.
Business Lessons from Henry David Thoreau
Emerson Consulting Group
MAY 7, 2019
Many of life’s major arenas and how we approach or practice them, such as environmentalism, writing, travel, war and peace, politics and rebellion, philosophy and introspection, are steeped within the life and legend of Henry David Thoreau. By Ken Lizotte CMC. As part of his ongoing column in Money Inc. But just the opposite proved true.
Seth's Blog: Self service requires information, which requires design
Seth Godin Blog
JUNE 4, 2013
Seths Books. Check out Seths books. Books by Seth Godin. SETHS BOOKS. Seths most important book about the art of marketing. The Book Depository (Free Worldwide Delivery). An instant bestseller, the book that brings all of Seths ideas together. The Book Depository (Free Worldwide Delivery).
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Show report: CX and EX inextricably linked, with empathy as the glue
1 to 1
MARCH 21, 2023
Youtuber and former NASA engineer Mark Rober illustrated the power of connectivity with a science demonstration, releasing thousands of balloons at once to earn a spot in the Guinness World Book of Records. Despite all the innovative advances in travel, Bastian said in-flight wi-fi has been an abysmal experience for passengers. “We
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