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The Return on Investing in Yourself

Actionable

My suggestion is this: think about where you are investing your time and your money, and put in place the practices to make it worth your while. The post The Return on Investing in Yourself appeared first on Actionable.co.

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Retail Survival 101: Treating Employees Better

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This article appeared originally in Customer Strategist. For retailers, 2017 will be remembered as the year of store closings. Nearly 13,000 stores are expected to shut their doors this year, compared with 4,000 in 2016, Bloomberg reports. The store closings are symptomatic of a larger trend: consumers are increasingly eschewing stores for online retailers that offer virtually endless aisles and fast deliveries.Still, some retailers have managed to not only survive but thrive in the face of t.

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The Return on Investing in Yourself

Actionable

My suggestion is this: think about where you are investing your time and your money, and put in place the practices to make it worth your while. The post The Return on Investing in Yourself appeared first on Actionable.co.

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Tsunami to Hit Germany: Five Auto Companies Admit to Illegal Cartel

MishTalk

Unmasking an Illegal Cartel . The German auto scandal just got much bigger according to a new report by the Spiegel. Audi, BMW, Daimler, Volkswagen, and Porsche colluded in all aspects of diesel technology. Effectively, the five corporations acted as one via a series of secret working groups that met several times a year. (more…).

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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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Get more from those TED Videos

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: If you like me watch a lot of videos, you’ll be interested in this research on how to make the most of learning from the video medium. The essence of the concept is to set yourself a series of pre-questions. Then watch with answering those questions in mind. Some generic ones you may find useful […]. The post Get more from those TED Videos appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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How to Ensure That IT Outsourcing Delivers

BCG

Article Monday, July 24, 2017 Outsourcing often fails to bring the expected reductions in overall IT costs. But companies can take steps to improve the odds.

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Improv in Business: Working At The Top of Your Intelligence

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: “Recall that moment when you where your most creative, aware, and tuned into the world around you. Imagine how valuable it would be to harness that state of mind and apply it at will to your most stressful and challenging business situations”… Read this change this manifesto from a musical improviser, likening improvisation in business to […].

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Dodge Construction Index Shows Weakening Trend in Mature Market

MishTalk

Construction starts rose four percent in June according to the Dodge Index of New Construction. For the second quarter, construction starts are down substantially. The overall trend is also down, indicative of a mature market. (more…).

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What Billy Joel Can Teach Us About AI

Strategy+Business

It's too simplistic to view advances in automation as inspiring either sadness or euphoria.

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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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What Spinning Off a GE Business Taught Me About Managing Ultra-Fast Change

Harvard Business

Change management can be a test for any organization. Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. I wouldn’t be surprised if the statistics are worse in my industry, financial services, where so many companies are large, global, regulated, and structurally complex. So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, pu

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Existing Home Sales in June Dive 1.8 Percent: Same Old Problem? Second and Third Quarter Impact?

MishTalk

The wind down to the end of the second quarter is not going very well. Existing home sales in June fell 1.8% to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 5.52 million. The Econoday consensus estimate was 5.58 million. (more…).

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Summer Reading: 10 Business Books - in Pictures

Strategy+Business

A selection of books perfect for your commute -- or the beach.

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Australia’s Experiment in Restraining Executive Bonuses

Harvard Business

Dave Wheeler for HBR. The idea of incentivizing CEOs and senior executives seems reasonable to most people. Yet the large executive bonus is a relatively recent phenomenon. Executive pay grew more slowly than the average worker’s income during the 50s, 60s and part of the 70s. It was in the 1980s that the ratio of CEO to average-worker pay grew dramatically.

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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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Strengths Balance: It’s About What’s Right About You

Leadership Vision Consulting

At Leadership Vision, we believe that it doesn’t matter if you don't have strengths in all four domains. We believe there is no such as thing as ‘Strengths Balance’ or having the ‘right’ set of Strengths. Instead, we choose to focus on the generative side of Strengths, not the degenerative or “dark side,” a descriptive versus a prescriptive approach to Strengths that doesn't put people in boxes, and we believe that Strengths are always working and pairing together.

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How People with Different Conflict Styles Can Work Together

Harvard Business

When it comes to conflict, most of us have a default approach: we either tend to avoid it or seek it out. The avoiders among us shy away from disagreements, value harmony and positive relationships, and will often try to placate people or even change the topic. Avoiders don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings or disrupt team dynamics. Seekers (and I’m one of them!

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Four Reasons Why a Blog is Important for Your Small Business

MBO Partners

Why you should consider maintaining an active blog as an independent professional.

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How to Write a White Paper That Wins Consulting Projects, with Gordon Graham: Podcast #4

Consulting Success

Set yourself apart in the consulting business by highlighting your specialty through customer stories and white papers. Description: There are few people that can consider themselves as great an expert on white papers as Gordon Graham. Gordon is a white paper writer and consultant who has has worked with Google, Oracle, Intuit, and many other Fortune 500 companies.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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AI May Soon Replace Even the Most Elite Consultants

Harvard Business

Amazon’s Alexa just got a new job. In addition to her other 15,000 skills like playing music and telling knock-knock jokes, she can now also answer economic questions for clients of the Swiss global financial services company, UBS Group AG. According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), a new partnership between UBS Wealth Management and Amazon allows some of UBS’s European wealth-management clients to ask Alexa certain financial and economic questions.