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Spinning your Story: How to break into consulting with a non-consulting internship

Management Consulted

You’re already over halfway through college and just found out management consulting is your dream career. You think of all the people you know who have been planning their path for breaking into consulting since they were 12 years old, … Continued. The post Spinning your Story: How to break into consulting with a non-consulting internship appeared first on Management Consulted.

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The Legacy of IKEA Founder Ingvar Kamprad

Strategy+Business

He understood that everything a company sells -- and everything its customers do -- should contribute to the experience.

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Potted Emotional Intelligence

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: Emotional intelligence is a given if you want to get ahead in the world today. Probably always was. Here’s a lovely guide to it. Other posts around emotional intelligence: Argue reasonably AND emotionally Emotions are not built-in, we build them Take a moment! Manage your Emotions Secrets to emotional resilience. The post Potted Emotional Intelligence appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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Strategy is for CFO Firms Too

Free Agent CFO

Are CFO firms like the cobbler without shoes–good at teaching and delivering strategy but not good at applying it to themselves? If you run or are part of a CFO firm, does that describe your organization? Words of Wisdom from the Dean of Consultants. I consider David Maister (now retired) as the Peter Drucker version for consulting firms. After leaving his Havard faculty post, he started his own consulting practice to work exclusively with professional services firms.

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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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The 4th Industrial Revolution: Avoiding Vanity Innovations

Confessions of a Consultant

The Technology Revolution is coming – but don’t embrace everything. When I grew up, AI stood for artificial insemination. Something to do with cows. No more. Now A rtificial I ntelligence is slowly moving across a continuum from assistive to augmented towards autonomous. So, please enjoy the fact that this blog has been typed by … a human!

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What is extraordinary contribution worth?

Seth Godin Blog

I know it's worth a lot to the recipient, but what is it worth to you? We all know what normal contribution looks like. It's what happens when a qualified person does the job, meets spec and keeps a promise. But extraordinary contribution is rare. It's when we surprise the system, and perhaps ourselves, by showing up with something unexpected, far beyond the common standard.

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The Importance of Having a Team Purpose (podcast)

Leadership Vision Consulting

In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Aleasha Morris and Nathan Freeburg continue our series on the Team Engagement Model. Today they are talking about PURPOSE: why your team needs a collective definition of their existence. Our study and intensive observation of teams through a Strengths based lens have revealed that there is an unmistakable difference between healthy and unhealthy teams.

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The Weekly Independent: February 12, 2018

MBO Partners

News and notes for independent professionals and their clients. This is the February 12, 2018 edition.

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