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Doing It Imperfectly Is Better Than Not Doing It Perfectly

Alan Weiss

Just because you teach something doesn’t mean you can do something. The had a Park Avenue law firm with 200 attorneys and they brought in their own consultant who was an expert witness. It was like High Noon at the deposition. I was asked about my client list of major organizations and where most of my fees came from (those companies).

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Cultivating a Mindset of Imperfection Action: Interview with Consulting Success Founder Michael Zipursky

Consulting Matters

Spend more time with loved ones, travel, do whatever is most meaningful for them. Do you have a consulting background yourself? That for me—at that time I was quite young, so it was—I learned a lot, and in talking with Sam we thought what could I do to share these stories of both what was working and what wasn't working.

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How Interview Questions Reveal the True Organizational Assumptions & Culture, Part 5

Johanna Rothman

What should the Scrum Master do?” Couple that with the question about the Scrum Master's actions, and I see a focus on what individuals can do, not a team. See How to Start Thinking in Flow Efficiency for Better Teamwork & Throughput and What Does Your Culture Value: People “Efficiency” or Work Throughput? Not one person.

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Indecision

CaseInterview.com

In many such situations, waiting and doing nothing is far worse than pursuing a “good enough” choice quickly. If you’re in a burning building and can’t decide between trying to exit from the front door or the back door, attempting to escape from either door is better than sitting in harm's way indecisively. No, Thanks!

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How the racial reckoning of 2020 has cracked open my heart and hobbled my ego

Brimstone Consulting

It’s because, sooner or later, your image of who you are, your efforts, and your competence will get in the way of being more, doing more, and learning more. In the Sturm und Drang that is 2020, I have facilitated more sessions on unconscious bias to corporate leaders across the globe than I did in the previous ten years put together.

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Why Your Marketing Plans Get Stalled

The Fearless Marketer

I don’t know how to do that!”. You, my clients, myself and everyone else wants to know how to do marketing stuff that works. You, my clients, myself and everyone else wants to know how to do marketing stuff that works. Stuff like: How do I get the attention of prospective clients? How do I get more meetings?

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The Human Condition: Avoiding Guilt

IMC USA

Yet no sooner than driving out of the parking lot at the end of the service, these same pious people are cursing and gesticulating as other drivers forge ahead of them to escape the parking lot. But if we recognize our imperfection, vow to do better next time, and strive to do. One of the textbook definitions of.