Tue.Jun 09, 2020

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The 10 Most Powerful Consulting Skills for This Moment in History

David A Fields

Extraordinary times present you and your consulting firm with the opportunity to make extraordinary contributions. You can employ the toolkit you’ve assembled for consulting to support broader, deeper impact. As noted here, you’re already doing good by promoting your consulting firm, building relationships, helping clients and sending chocolate-covered espresso beans to worthy colleagues.

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The Food Industry Learns the Value of Small Batch Thinking

Markovitz Consulting

The disruption caused by COVID-19 has forced businesses to adopt new ways of operating. That transition hasn’t been comfortable or easy, but it’s made the value of the small-batch mindset that we use in lean apparent in sectors that haven’t considered it before. In Your Kitchen Can Be as Well Stocked as Restaurants Now , the NYTimes points out that with the mass closure of restaurants around the country, restaurant supply companies, fishmongers, and farmers are now selling direct to consumers to

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Flight Speed

Alan Weiss

This morning a very popular and professional local radio host commented that there was an article, he was told, in the New England Journal of Medicine, pointing out that masks were not an effective preventive for the coronavirus. Before posting this on any of my platforms, I thought I’d better check out the source. The NEJM in fact said that masks were not needed for “casually passing by others” but that in crowds and contained environments masks were every efficacious in preve

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Create More Management Transparency

Johanna Rothman

Create Transparency At All Levels Principle. In the agile and lean communities, we talk a lot about transparency. This image is the transparency principle we used in From Chaos to Distributed Agile Teams. I see the most product and program success when the various teams create transparency between them, the middle of the continuum. That's the full-product transparency.

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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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Black Lives Matter

Kai Davis

These times are of critical importance, and I stand with BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color). I’m a white guy, and I recognize my privilege. My voice isn’t one you need to hear on this topic. Rather than contributing to the noise, let me point you towards a collection of resources and organizations who deserve your attention and donations on this matter: [link].

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How on earth do you get people to respond to your outreach (without feeling slimy, sales-y, or overly self-promotional)?

Kai Davis

A reader writes in asking about outreach. Specifically, how on earth do you get people to respond to your outreach messages (without feeling slimy, sales-y, or overly self-promotional)? In the outreach campaigns I run for myself (and for my consulting clients), there are a few essential rules I’ve picked up over time. One of the most important – and often overlooked – rules is that you want to start with small asks.

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Are you leadership material? Leadership myths dispelled.

Peter Stark

At the end of a tough day, have you ever thought that you might not be leadership material? The term leadership material falsely implies that either you have what it takes to be a leader, or you don’t. Throughout time, we’ve heard many explanations as to why some people have followers and others don’t. Some of these explanations range from the ancient civilizations who believed that the ability to lead was bestowed upon a lucky few from the gods, to the more recent view that leaders just happe

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Getting what the customers asked for

Seth Godin Blog

Why is there so much short-term hustle? Because that’s what we buy. Why is there so much negative campaigning? Because that’s what changes our actions. Why is social media filled with manipulation and vanity? Because that’s what we click on. We buy foods that are engineered to make us fat and we watch shows that are designed to numb us instead of inspire.

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How to Charter a Change Leadership Team

LSA Global

Why Change Efforts Fail. Most large-scale change efforts do not achieve their objectives. The changes were either aborted before implementation, went awry as they began, or never realized the expected business results. Organizational change efforts typically fail because people tend to see change through eyes that are accustomed to business as usual, rather than through those of people who know how to be leaders of change.

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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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A Primer on Restructuring Your Company’s Finances

Harvard Business

Understand your options, both in and out of court.

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Feeling Uncomfortable with Reentry? You’re on the Right Track.

Harvard Business

Uncharted territory ought to be outside your comfort zone.

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In a Pandemic, What’s the Best Strategy for the Global Vaccine Alliance?

Harvard Business

How experimentation, judicious risk taking, and entrepreneurship in finance and capital markets could lead to a Covid-19 vaccine.

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Run Your Business So You’ll Never Need Layoffs

Harvard Business

Treat your people as trusted partners.

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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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When More Information Leads to More Uncertainty

Harvard Business

A framework for coping — both cognitively and emotionally.

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3 Things You’re Getting Wrong About Organizational Change

Harvard Business

Invert your assumptions about risk-taking.