Consulting Success
MAY 28, 2018
As a consultant, your goal is to make connections and help clients realize that they can trust you to make the changes their company needs to make. This often means that you will be consulting through resistance. Kelly Roach came into the business of consulting by always hearing people around her saying “Who does this kid think she is, coming in here and telling us what we need to do?
CaseInterview.com
MAY 28, 2018
The other day, a friend was praising me for my accomplishments. I felt the praise was not justified. Contrary to my friend’s perception, I attribute my success to two things: 1) the ability to learn from my mistakes; 2) a high pain tolerance (that’s needed to tolerate making a great many mistakes). Step back and think about this for a moment. If you always learn from your mistakes, logically speaking, you will eventually succeed.
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Strategy+Business
MAY 28, 2018
There are two reasons artificial intelligence will be a net job creator, not a net job destroyer. First, new technologies enable new kinds of customer behavior, requiring new products and services. Second, as old tasks disappear, new ones emerge. To solve this problem, we need to increase the effectiveness of education.
Seth Godin Blog
MAY 28, 2018
If you knew, and you could see the world through the eyes of the customer, and you really cared. What would you do? That's a simple test of creating excellence. So, if I'm on hold for 56 minutes with Orbitz, does the CEO know? Is that ever a desired outcome? Does the engineer who shipped a hackable voting machine know that it's hackable? The plumber who finished the job and left the hot/cold controls in reverse position. did he care enough?
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Strategy+Business
MAY 28, 2018
There are two reasons artificial intelligence will be a net job creator, not a net job destroyer. First, new technologies enable new kinds of customer behavior, requiring new products and services. Second, as old tasks disappear, new ones emerge. To solve this problem, we need to increase the effectiveness of education.
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Harvard Business
MAY 28, 2018
Heini Wehrle/BIA/Minden Pictures/Getty Images. Most companies see investor relations as a one-way street. When Bain & Company recently surveyed 51 top global executives about their investor relationship management practices, we learned that while most of them communicate at least monthly with investors and are segmenting their investor base for differentiated emphasis in communications, fewer than 6% of the companies involved have a formal structure in place to link investor relations with s
MBO Partners
MAY 28, 2018
News and notes for independent professionals and their clients. This is the May 29, 2018 edition.
Harvard Business
MAY 28, 2018
Jurgen Ziewe/Getty Images. In April 2017, United Airlines encountered public outrage when an Asian passenger was dragged out of his seat and off of an overbooked United Airlines plane. Then, almost exactly one year later, two black patrons were arrested at a Starbucks store for sitting at a table without having made a purchase. Both events were recorded, uploaded to social media, shared widely, and broadly condemned as instances of racial bias.
SkillQuo
MAY 28, 2018
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Harvard Business
MAY 28, 2018
Michael Blann/Getty Images. Employees, investors, and partners don’t just follow anyone — they follow leaders who have command of the business and command of the stage. Whether you’re presenting on an analyst call or speaking to your entire organization in a town hall meeting, you’re being judged on your confidence and competence, not just your content, and the way you appear and how you sound matters.
Harvard Business
MAY 28, 2018
Julian Watt/Getty Images. Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. But they will need to adopt the more hard-headed way that Silicon Valley companies evaluate acquisitions for their deals to pay off. Indeed, there are signs that corporate leaders are repeating the mistakes of the heady days of 2000, when the fear of missing out sometimes overpowered
Harvard Business
MAY 28, 2018
Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images. When Naomi Simson founded RedBalloon, an online gift retailer that sells personal experiences, she was pioneering the category in Australia. With a $25,000 personal investment and a small office in her home, she began aggregating sales leads and aggressively acquiring customers through very traditional marketing means — like yellow page advertisements.
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