Fri.Oct 29, 2021

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The 5-Part Entrepreneurial Consulting Business Plan

Consulting Success

If you want to start a consulting business, then you need to write your consulting business plan. Or do you? I’ve watched countless starry-eyed entrepreneurs “start” their business with a 50-100 page business plan. They spend weeks — or even months — toiling away at their desk after their 9-5 detailing everything about their future.

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Consulting as Racketeering: The Fallacy of Corporate Overexpansion

Tom Spencer

The incriminating title of this article was inspired by Charles Tilly’s book ‘ War Making and State Making as Organized Crime ’, which describes an instrumental, … Read the full article The post Consulting as Racketeering: The Fallacy of Corporate Overexpansion first appeared on Tom Spencer.

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Accountability Starts at the Top

Alan Weiss

I have about a 50% hit rate when I write to CEOs about poor service or quality, in terms of their personal response. You can delegate tasks but not accountability. Top people who have “Teflon-like responses” to complaints create cultures that are uncaring and cold.

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Can Consulting Make a Positive Social Impact?

Tom Spencer

In school, students spend most of their time working on homework assignments and projects, which, despite their importance in reinforcing skills learned in class, have no immediate benefit to the world. Similarly, in traditional management consulting roles, employees often utilize the latest tools to solve their clients’ problems, often without considering the impacts beyond the client themselves.

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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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Forget Flexibility. Your Employees Want Autonomy.

Harvard Business

People want to make their own decisions about when and where they work, according to survey data.

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Getting Back to the Basics of Human Connection

Harvard Business

The return to in-person work can be overwhelming. These four strategies can help.

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The Paradox of Teams

Tom Spencer

The concept of a ‘team’ has been around since the 16th century , and so one would assume that the term is fairly well understood. Whilst teams are an inseparable part of modern business practice, this article seeks to explore why they are actually a conceptual paradox, and what this means for professionals. The Team-Individuality Paradox. There is a certain paradox about teams.

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How to Glean Insights from Data Sets Across Clouds - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM LIVERAMP

Harvard Business

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