Sat.Sep 19, 2020

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Coronavirus & Consulting Offers

Tom Spencer

Reading Time: 3 minutes. The coronavirus epidemic has rattled the planet. Universities are shutting down or going to online learning, California has issued a mandatory lockdown for its 40 million residents. The UK has 3,500 known cases of the virus and London will probably be shut down in the next week, if not before. Commerce has ground to a halt. The travel and hospitality industries have been decimated, stock markets around the world have tanked, and governments struggle to combat this devil

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Evangelism

Alan Weiss

The future of selling is all about evangelism. Are your customers and clients “marketing” for you by word-of-mouth and unsolicited referrals? If not—if you don’t have a steady stream of inquiries from people who have been told about you by your clients—then you aren’t sufficiently demonstrating A) the value you’re delivering, and B) your unique and vital role in that value.

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Mental Models: Maps of Meaning

Tom Spencer

Reading Time: 4 minutes. A mental model is simply a representation of reality. The world is complex, and so we cannot account for every moving part and keep all the details in our brains. In the words of the famous physicist Richard Feynman: “You only think you know, as a matter of fact. And most of your actions are based on incomplete knowledge and you really don’t know what it is all about, or what the purpose of the world is, or know a great deal of other things.

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Consultant Marketing Tech Trap

Jerry Fletcher

It’s great until it isn’t. It can be the backbone of the sharing of your body of intellectual property or it can delay the release by days, weeks or months or, in some cases years. Change. The inherent problem as well as solution with technology is that It keeps changing. Engineers and software designers keep trying to simplify things and, in my view, have achieved wonders.

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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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“Is that the most important thing?”

Seth Godin Blog

If you want to have an argument, to raise tempers or to distract, the easiest thing to do is start bringing up things that are easy to argue about. Not the things that are important. Because the important things require nuance, patience and understanding. They require an understanding of goals, of the way the world works and our mutual respect. If someone keeps coming back to an irrelevant, urgent or provocative point instead, they’re signaling that they’d rather not talk about the i

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