Successful Independent Consulting
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
As a self-employed consultant do you really need a website? I’m asked this a lot, particularly if a consultant gets most business from referrals or they contract through agencies or boutique firms. Besides, it’s highly unlikely that a prospective client is going to stumble upon your website and decide to hire you. Surely creating a website is a waste of time and money, right?
Consulting Success
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
Here’s how to win more consulting sales. People often refer to it as “closing” more sales. I’m going to offer you some insights, some mindsets, and ways of thinking about this to help you actually win more business. The most effective consultants understand that it’s all about what’s going on in the buyer’s mind. 1. Forget About Closing The Sale (For Now) The key to closing more sales is don’t focus on the close.
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Consultants' Consultant
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
Consultants Consultant: Kelly Leonard interviewing Jonah Sachs about “unsafe thinking” How to be more self-aware from Harvard. The post Unsafe thinking appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
Tatsiana Volskaya/Getty Images. We all know the old script: join a company, work hard, move up the ladder. But it’s been decades since that was a reliable path, and not just because of layoffs or outsourcing or robots. These days, the culprit preventing many professionals from identifying a clear career path at their company is simply that one no longer exists.
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Consultants' Consultant
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
Consultants Consultant: I had a large introverted group of clients recently who wished to behave more extrovertedly. Here are my kindle highlights from Eric Barker’s Barking up the Wrong Tree: the Surprising Science behind why everything you know about success is (mostly) wrong on introversion and extroversion. [link]. The post Introverts appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.
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Henry DeVries
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
Let’s shatter the myth that publicity cannot be measured. Just as there are multiple ways to run a PR campaign, there are multiple methods to measure results of a campaign.
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
Alfred Huber /Getty Images. Supervisors enjoy all kinds of advantages that come with their positions: they have control over resources, make important decisions, enjoy higher salaries and other valuable perks, and have opportunities to network with power-brokers both inside and outside their organizations. Despite those distinct advantages, however, supervisors are not immune to feeling downward envy — that is, envy of the employees they oversee.
Seth Godin Blog
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
The new Samsung phone has a hardware button on it that goes straight to their digital assistant. The good news is that adding a hotline/dedicated button/clear signpost is a dramatic and effective way to influence customer behavior. “Pull rope to stop train” is much more efficient than navigating three pages of menus. It also communicates your point of view and confidence to the user.
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
Patrick George/Getty Images. We live in unequal times. The causes and consequences of widening disparities in income and wealth have become a defining debate of our age. Researchers have made major inroads into documenting trends in either income or wealth inequality in the United States, but we still know little about how the two evolve together — an important question to understand the causes of wealth inequality.
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MBO Partners
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
S Corporation business structure advantages and disadvantages.
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
Jon Feingersh/Getty Images. Planning has long been one of the cornerstones of management. Early in the twentieth century Henri Fayol identified the job of managers as to plan, organize, command, coordinate, and control. The capacity and willingness of managers to plan developed throughout the century. Management by Objectives (MBO) became the height of corporate fashion in the late 1950s.
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