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7 Reasons Why Your Clients Aren't "Getting It" When you Talk and Write About What You Do

Consulting Matters

One of the biggest challenges that both new and seasoned consultants and coaches face is finding the words to describe what they do. They go to networking events and try to explain that they are a consultant or coach but instead of getting head nods and curiosity.they experience the angst of the blank stares. You are not alone.

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The More Senior Your Job Title, the More You Need to Keep a Journal

Harvard Business

The best thinking comes from structured reflection — and the best way to do that is keeping a personal journal. I started keeping a journal when I took over a manufacturing research, software, and consulting firm. A journal is an effective, efficient, private way to take a similar break.

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Consulting Sales Systems That Work for Introverts with Bob Burg: Podcast #16

Consulting Success

On this session of the Consulting Success Podcast , we dive into the story of this unsuccessful journalist who transformed into a powerful author and speaker. He enjoyed the job but wasn’t very good at it simply because he wasn’t interested in journalism. The challenge he then faced was a lack of knowledge about sales.

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Consultant Ninja: Friedman Billings Ramsey and Tom Peters.

Consultant Ninja

Consultant Ninja. Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. The longer I am in business, the more allergic I am becoming to business gurus and journals (Tom Peters, Gary Hamel, HBR, McK Quarterly, etc).

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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Executive leadership and organizational performance: Suggestions for a new theory and methodology. Journal of Management, 14(3), 453-464. Journal of Management Research, 1(4), 254. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93(6), 1438-1446. Journal of Public Relations Research, 26: 256–279. Collins, J. HarperBusiness.

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Challenging Our Own Mental Models Our Growth as Consultants.

Consulting and Organizational Management

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Challenging Our Own Mental Models Our Growth as Consultants (Part 3 of 3) By Jim Smith on March 19, 2011. Given the uncertainty and complexity in our organizations, dealing with ambiguity is a critical skill for consultants. Translate This.

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ZS Associates Firm Profile

Management Consulted

For Z and S, the conference launched opportunities to consult on the many client projects that came their way. Their winning paper, Sales Territory Design: 30 Years of Modeling and Implementation , was subsequently published in the INFORMS journal, Marketing Science. 16 Retail Consulting. #27 Practice Areas. Business Operations.