Fri.Mar 09, 2018

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Leadership, Levels and History

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: Leadership is not just one thing but many. Here are some different approaches. First, an interesting summary of Drotter’s Leadership Pipeline. 6 passages between 5 levels of leadership. Nicely summarises the issues of moving from one level to the next. If you’re ambitious, you need to know where you sit and start addressing your next challenge!

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Top 7 Traits of Successful Sales Managers

LSA Global

The Pressure to Succeed. Wouldn’t it be nice to know the traits of successful sales managers? Sales managers have an awesome responsibility. They must motivate their team to achieve very concrete sales targets and do so under the constant pressure of executives who are impatient with excuses and for whom failure is no option. The Job of a Sales Manager.

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Working Relationships

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: Building relationships is a vital skill for consultants, both internal and external. Here are some ideas that will keep you thinking. The 6 Golden Rules For Turning Consulting Relationships Into Breakthroughs outlines for the client and for the consultant what must happen in order for innovation to happen Then on a different note, here are some keys […].

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Rubbernecking

Seth Godin Blog

A traffic jam can teach us quite a lot about human nature. In the US, when there's an accident on the side of the road, traffic in the other direction slows down. People voluntarily slow down and look over at the carnage. This is nuts. These very same people would never pay money to go to a movie filled with car wrecks that hurt real people. And yet, they do it from their car.

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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 So Many High-Profile Digital Transformations Fail

Harvard Business

Yagi Studios/Getty Images. In 2011, GE embarked upon an ambitious attempt to digitally transform its product and service offerings. The company created impressive digital capabilities, labeling itself a “digital industrial” company, embedding sensors into many products, building a huge new software platform for the Internet of Things, and transforming business models for its industrial offerings.

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What Breaking the 4-Minute Mile Taught Us About the Limits of Conventional Thinking

Harvard Business

Norman Potter/Stringer/Hayon Thapaliya/Getty Images. The sad news of the passing of Roger Bannister , the first human being to run a four-minute mile, got me thinking about his legacy—not just as one of the great athletes of the past century, but as an innovator, a change agent, and an icon of success. As it turns out, when he broke through a previously impenetrable track-and-field barrier, he taught all of us what it takes to break new ground.

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What We Do and Don’t Know After Trump’s Tariff Announcement

Harvard Business

The New York Public Library. In a White House signing ceremony on Thursday, March 8, President Donald Trump announced he was imposing import tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminum. After invoking a rarely-used Cold War-era law last year, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had spent nine months investigating whether imports of steel and aluminum posed a threat to American national security.