David A Fields
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
You can boost the fortunes of your consulting firm in numerous ways. Improve your processes, adopt better techniques, dial up your leverage, incorporate dessert breaks… the list goes on and on. Amongst these, there’s one, (fairly) easy shift you could make today that will help every aspect of your consulting firm. How cool would it … Continued.
Consulting Matters
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
It’s a common career trajectory: An employee becomes a front-line supervisor, then a manager, then a leader of leaders and then eventually an executive over a department or an even broader entity. From that perspective, leadership is leadership and executives merely have a larger scope and span of control. Despite common perception - executives are not simply managers with a broader scope and span of control.
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Melissa Agnes
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
Virtual communication can breed misunderstandings and yet how many of your meetings are virtual? Do you see where I’m going with this? Dr. Nick Morgan, author of Can You Hear Me? (amongst other great books) and founder of Public Words, joins the Invincible Brand Podcast to discuss the impacts that the virtual world have on internal teams and the conscious efforts and actions that leaders can take to mitigate the risks that these impacts present on company morale, team-building, and ultimat
Consulting Matters
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
It’s a common career trajectory: An employee becomes a front-line supervisor, then a manager, then a leader of leaders and then eventually an executive over a department or an even broader entity. From that perspective, leadership is leadership and executives merely have a larger scope and span of control. Despite common perception - executives are not simply managers with a broader scope and span of control.
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The Crazy Lives of Consultants
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
Everyone has seen an "open plan office" setup. A bunch of my clients had them, especially Out West. I actually liked the look, minus the dogs and yoga balls, but I hadn't really worked in one until now. Open plan offices suck. In an open office, everyone can smell your food or be offended by your body odor. Everyone can see what your high school buddies post on Facebook and wonder if you're like that too.
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Johanna Rothman
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
Back at Agile 2018, I had a chance to record a podcast with Bob Payne. The recording is Johanna Rothman – Agile 2018. We discussed my experience report with Mark Kilby, the geographically distributed agile teams book with Mark , and my roadmapping session. I’ve known Bob forever. I think of him as a friend and as a colleague. You can tell in our conversation.
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
bulentgultek/Getty Images. In his introduction to Working , the landmark 1974 oral history of work, Studs Terkel positioned meaning as an equal counterpart to financial compensation in motivating the American worker. “[Work] is about a search…for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor,” he wrote.
Henry DeVries
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
Bad scandals can quickly undo years of good marketing. Leaders have to make a decision as to what standards they are going to set and then hold themselves and everyone under their guidance for living by those standards.
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
PM Images/Getty Images. Companies benefit when employees speak up. When employees feel comfortable candidly voicing their opinions, suggestions, or concerns, organizations become better at handling threats as well as opportunities. But employees often remain silent with their opinions, concerns or ideas. There are generally two viewpoints on why: One is the personality perspective, which suggests that these employees inherently lack the disposition to stand up and speak out about critical issues
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Rod Burkert
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
When it comes to your practice, who is supporting and challenging you to get better? Because getting better – REALLY better – will happen faster if you work with people who understand your journey. When it comes to your practice, don’t overlook the power of belonging to a group. Hey, what’s up everyone! I’m Rod Burkert. And welcome to my Practice Development Corner, the place where business valuation professionals like you come to learn how to turn the practice they have into the practice they w
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
Monty Rakusen/Getty Images. In 2012, HBR dubbed data scientist “the sexiest job of the 21st century ” It is also, arguably, the vaguest. To hire the right people for the right roles, it’s important to distinguish between different types of data scientist. There are plenty of different distinctions that one can draw, of course, and any attempt to group data scientists into different buckets is by necessity an oversimplification.
Strategy+Business
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
Tata Sons, one of India's oldest companies, is a global powerhouse in multiple industries, including automotive, steel, technology, and tea. It owns steel plants, Jaguar, Land Rover, and Tetley Tea. Tata's chair, Natarajan Chandrasekaran, explains his philosophy of simplicity, synergy, and scale, as well as Tata's role in India and the world.
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
Shana Novak/Getty Images. Most people at one time or another have struggled to navigate the complexities of the U.S. health care system. Many have received unpleasant surprises, such as a medical bill they expected to be covered by their health insurance or an unexpectedly expensive bill for a simple service. This type of confusion results in a lot of administrative work, including avoidable calls to customer service centers or time spent helping people find lower-cost options for services.
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Seth Godin Blog
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
On almost every issue that divides the electorate (in the US and abroad), the group that gets out the vote will win. In most elections, the more some candidates spend, the more disillusioned the electorate becomes. The goal is to keep the opponent’s supporters from caring enough to vote. These are not unrelated facts. We’re being played, manipulated and pushed around.
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
Nick Morgan, a communications expert and speaking coach, says that while email, texting, and Slack might seem like they make communication easier, they actually make things less efficient. When we are bombarded with too many messages a day, he argues, humans are likely to fill in the gaps with negative information or assume the worst about the intent of a coworker’s email.
Cheryl Cran
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
Robotics, automation, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and virtual reality are all quickly influencing and shaping the future of work. As shown in Workfront’s State of Work report, knowledge workers today want automation software, with 86% of U.S. workers believing that the rise of automation will help us think of work in new and innovative ways.
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
The service sector is a large and growing part of our economy. But a lot of service businesses are managed according to old ideas imported from more traditional industries, says Ryan Buell, UPS Foundation Associate Professor of Service Management at Harvard Business School (HBS). In today’s rapidly changing service sector, a new set of frameworks is required to build a robust and competitive service business, says Buell. “Service jobs have a reputation for not being great jobs—
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Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
Jeff Greenberg/Getty Images. The global digital economy crossed an important milestone recently: the number of internet users in two countries — China, with just over 800 million users, and India, with 500 million users – surpassed the aggregate number of internet users across 37 OECD countries combined. In both countries, users spend more time on the internet than the worldwide average of 5.9 hours per day.
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