Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you want to achieve sustainable success as a consultant - ideally you want to create a marketing system to ensure you have a consistently full pipeline of right-fit clients. However, there will be times when you have to feel the cash flow pressure and need to find clients.right now! This article is designed to give you some immediate traction while still setting you up for long-term success.

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Markovitz Consulting

JANUARY 7, 2019

“Disruption” has become another business buzzword that obviates the need for prudent, careful thought and consideration. If something is “disruptive,” then it must by definition be good. But when it comes to internal operations at least, disruption is often both bad for business and for employees, because it causes unevenness in work. Taiichi Ohno, one of the fathers of the Toyota production system, described three manufacturing evils that companies should avoid: mura (unevenness), muri (overbur

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you want to achieve sustainable success as a consultant - ideally you want to create a marketing system to ensure you have a consistently full pipeline of right-fit clients. However, there will be times when you have to feel the cash flow pressure and need to find clients.right now! This article is designed to give you some immediate traction while still setting you up for long-term success.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 7, 2019

Business doesn’t always have to be all about the technical processes. It’s also about the people running it. Professional speaker and corporate relationship expert Tony Chatman works with the people side of business to determine the kind of leadership that either makes the business succeed or fail. He points out how, too often, people are trained for very specific technical expertise, failing to give them the proper skill set to navigate the relationships that help.

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The Fearless Marketer

JANUARY 7, 2019

Above is a picture of Judy Clark and the staff of HR Answers in Portland Oregon. Judy is one of the most creative (and effective marketers) of her professional services that I have ever met. Not only that, she’s really enthusiastic about her marketing. When I asked my subscribers if they’d like to be interviewed for the More Clients Club about how they attracted clients, Judy responded with a long list of all the things that have worked for her over the years.

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Women in Consulting

JANUARY 7, 2019

By: Theresa Shafer. :: In December, we had a delightful holiday party where we exchanged gifts and lessons learned in 2018. We enjoyed the food, laughter and getting to know everyone a little deeper. It is a great group that offers so many valuable insights and perspectives! Here a few of the shared pearls: I need to remember it is not what I tell them but what questions I ask them Working with partners can add a whole new dimension to your business Those who do the talking does the buying Share

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The Source

JANUARY 7, 2019

Reflecting on a recent trip to Dubai, I realise that it’s not very often that you hear someone in that part of the world talking about things being “too big”. From the 828m-high Burj Khalifa—still the tallest building in the world—to the supersized, super-stocked aquarium in the Dubai Mall, to the Palm—one of the world’s largest artificial islands, “too big” is the region’s version of “just right”.

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Strategy+Business

JANUARY 7, 2019

Inside every company, people work across functions to meet their own goals and their firm's priorities. But relationships that start out well often become adversarial over time. For more insight, read "Turning 'Accidental Adversaries' into Allies.

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Seth Godin Blog

JANUARY 7, 2019

There are words that now have no meaning at all. Literally no meaning. We write them to take up space. To make ourselves seem more serious or smarter. We speak them to give ourselves a pause, a moment to catch up to our riff. ‘Well’ and ‘so’ have been doing this work for a long time, but add to that the more syllabic words like ironically, literally, and hopefully.

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Strategy+Business

JANUARY 7, 2019

Inside every company, people work across functions to meet their own goals and their firm's priorities. But relationships that start out well often become adversarial over time. For more insight, read "Turning 'Accidental Adversaries' into Allies.

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1 to 1

JANUARY 7, 2019

Arizona State University is on a mission to innovate. Long a staple of the Phoenix area, it has also created a national presence with its online degree and certificate programs, and was named the “Most Innovative” university by U.S. News & World Report three years in a row, beating out Stanford and MIT, among others. According to U.S News & World Report, “The innovation ranking is due at least in part to a more than 80 percent improvement in ASU’s graduation rate in the p.

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Strategy+Business

JANUARY 7, 2019

Inside every company, people work across functions to meet their own goals and their firm's priorities. But relationships that start out well often become adversarial over time. For more insight, read "Turning 'Accidental Adversaries' into Allies.

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Leadership Vision Consulting

JANUARY 7, 2019

Welcome to season two of the Leadership Vision Podcast where we share our expertise in the discovery, practice, and implementation of CliftonStrengths! This episode is a preview of what’s to come on the podcast in the first few months of 2019. It’s meant to get your mind thinking about our upcoming episode topics and promote discussion. If you have questions about any of our topics ahead of time, drop us a line and we’ll try to answer them on that episode.

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Strategy+Business

JANUARY 7, 2019

Transforming the hidden causes of conflict in strategic collaborations.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

Transforming the hidden causes of conflict in strategic collaborations.

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