Tue.Nov 05, 2019

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How to Ensure Your Clients Happily Write Your Consulting Firm Big Checks

David A Fields

Your soft, consulting heart practically bursts when your client crows, “Investing with you was the smartest move we’ve made on our business.” Woe are you, therefore, when your client begrudgingly, reluctantly scratches out a check to your consulting firm after you’ve delivered a monster-sized win for them. Dratmuffins! What’s up with that negativity?

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Seven Ways to Sell Your 2020 Strategy

Henman Performance Executive

November is the perfect month to start thinking about next year’s strategic objectives. If you wait until December or January, your strategy will take a backseat to the instant gratification tactics offer. Similarly, if you’ve had a really good year, you and those in your change of command will be tempted to rest on your […]. The post Seven Ways to Sell Your 2020 Strategy appeared first on Henman Performance Group.

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Can the Robin Hood Army Grow with Zero Financial Resources?

Harvard Business

In 2014, Neel Ghose (MBA 2019) created the Robin Hood Army, an entirely volunteer-based organization working to get surplus food to hungry people. Just four years later, they had served more than 9 million people in 103 cities around the world, all while maintaining their “golden rule” of being zero-funds. Harvard Business School’s Susanna Gallani and Ghose discuss the most pressing challenge facing the organization with its fast growth and no monetary assets: how to attract, r

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Slack rules of life

Seth Godin Blog

Create a new channel for every project. Invite the right people to join the channel to work on it. Every project has a beginning, and it has an ending as well. Don’t start a channel if you’re not prepared to end it. When a project isn’t helping you reach your longer-term goals, leave the channel. Direct messages demand clarity and care.

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PowerPoint Best Practices for Creating Stellar Presentations

Mastering data visualization in PowerPoint will help accelerate your career because it positions you as someone who can present data that drives business decisions forward. think-cell's PowerPoint Best Practices eBook was created specifically for professionals aiming to master the art and science of data-driven storytelling. What’s inside: Practical Insights: Uncover valuable tips for crafting engaging and persuasive presentations.

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Why Meetings Go Wrong (And How to Fix Them)

Harvard Business

Steven Rogelberg, a professor at UNC Charlotte, has spent decades researching workplace meetings and reports that many of them are a waste of time. Why? Because the vast majority of managers aren’t trained in or reviewed on effective meeting management. He explains how leaders can improve meetings — for example, by welcoming attendees as if they were party guests or banning use of the mute button on conference calls — and how organizations can support these efforts with better

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