Tue.Jun 04, 2019

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What Your Consulting Firm’s Clients Really Want

David A Fields

You’re a problem solver, synthesizer, connect-the-dotter. Yep, you’re a cerebral, smarty-pants consultant, and you use your mega-intellect to set your clients on the path to success. Sure, your geeky clients toss around scientific terms like petabyte, zetabyte and yottabyte while you fall back on gibberish like edutainment, hyperlocal and gamification, But you know how to … Continued.

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Focus on Coaching to Improve Team Performance

Rick Conlow

To significantly improve team performance, coaching offers a new role for today’s managers. Good coaching requires day to day engagement with employees to give assistance as needed. Few managers do this well. Behaviorists Evert and Selman have over 15 years of study about organizational effectiveness. They argue that, “a management paradigm based on coaching can readily out-perform a management paradigm based on control.

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Bootstrap Your Corporate Innovation

SkillQuo

Innovation Costs Money. One of the main drivers of innovation in our classic business market is funding. To innovate costs money, and so obviously, that money and where that money goes drives who gets to innovate and even how much. As we shift into a modern business market, we’ve witnessed a lot of change and one of those changes is something I like to call resourceful innovation; that is to innovate by relying on resources rather or more so than external funding aka bootstrapping.

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Advice for Entrepreneurs from a Leading Venture Capitalist

Harvard Business

Scott Kupor, managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, says there’s a lot about navigating the venture capital world that entrepreneurs don’t understand. Some can’t figure out how to get in the door. Others fail to deliver persuasive pitches. Many don’t know how the deals and relationships really work. Kupor outlines what he and his partners look for in founding teams and business ideas and explains how start-ups work with VCs to become successful companies.

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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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“Don’t pee in the pool”

Seth Godin Blog

For generations, people dumped crap into the Hudson River. The river was so large and so swift that they assumed that the effluent wouldn’t come back to haunt them. Of course, it did, killing the oyster beds and poisoning the public. How big does a body of water have to be before we forget that we’re swimming in it? That it all comes around… Why are we are okay at yelling at a stranger, but not our neighbor?

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Why You Should Create a “Shadow Board” of Younger Employees

Harvard Business

Lessons from four companies that tried it.

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How Bots Will Change the Doctor-Patient Relationship

Harvard Business

Self-service is growing in many industries. Why not health care?

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How Bots Will Change the Doctor-Patient Relationship

Harvard Business

Self-service is growing in many industries. Why not health care?

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4 Ways to Improve Your Company’s Disability-Inclusion Practices

Harvard Business

Change processes that support unconscious bias.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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4 Ways to Improve Your Company’s Disability-Inclusion Practices

Harvard Business

Change processes that support unconscious bias.

Talent 28
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Why You Should Create a “Shadow Board” of Younger Employees

Harvard Business

Lessons from four companies that tried it.

Company 28
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Can Algorithms Help Us Decide Who to Trust?

Harvard Business

It depends on the type of trust required.

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Can Algorithms Help Us Decide Who to Trust?

Harvard Business

It depends on the type of trust required.

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Savings Consultants Are Needed in Today's Market More Than Ever

Savings Consultants are needed in today’s market more than ever. With an increase in expenses, businesses are looking for opportunities to save. Often unknown to businesses are savings in expense reduction, specialized tax savings, specialized savings including medical underpayments, health benefits cost reduction, zero cost processing, and more. Blue Coast Savings, with over 20 years in business, assists Savings Consultants in helping these companies move toward more profitable businesses.

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Israel Turns 70: Does It Need a Rebrand?

Harvard Business

Israel turned 70 years old in May of 2018, but its brand image internationally was less than ideal. Market research revealed that many people associated Israel primarily with military conflict. Harvard Business School professor Elie Ofek discusses efforts to rebrand the country in his case, “Israel at 70: Is it Possible to (re)Brand a Country?

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Israel Turns 70: Does It Need a Rebrand?

Harvard Business

Israel turned 70 years old in May of 2018, but its brand image internationally was less than ideal. Market research revealed that many people associated Israel primarily with military conflict. Harvard Business School professor Elie Ofek discusses efforts to rebrand the country in his case, “Israel at 70: Is it Possible to (re)Brand a Country?