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Michael Zipursky on Conscious Millionaire: How To Achieve Success As A Consultant

Consulting Success

Michael was recently featured on Conscious Millionaire for the second time. You can listen to it here: Michael Zipursky on Conscious Millionaire: How To Achieve Success As A Consultant How do you achieve success in your consulting business? Do you focus on making as much money as you can — or creating as much value as you can? Money follows value.

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Under-Management Is the Flip Side of Micromanagement — and It’s a Problem Too

Harvard Business

Chalermphon Kumchai/EyeEm/Getty Images. Micromanagement gets most of the attention, but under-management may be just as big a problem. This is the term I’ve given to a constellation of behaviors that I’ve seen occurring together often during my 24 years in management: weak performance management, a tendency to avoid conflicts with employees, and generally lackluster accountability.

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If what you’re doing isn’t working

Seth Godin Blog

Perhaps it’s time to do something else. Not a new job, or a new city, but perhaps a different story. A story about possibility and sufficiency. A story about connection and trust. A story about for and with , instead of at or to. Bootstrapping your way to a new story about the world around you is one of the most difficult things you’ll ever do.

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Using Analytics to Align Sales and Marketing Teams

Harvard Business

gremlin/Getty Images. Many companies struggle to deliver a consistent and easy buying experience for their customers. Consider the following scenario: A manager wants to purchase some computer software for her business. She asks an analyst on her team to do an online search for information. The analyst recommends a particular software company’s solution.

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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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How to Learn New Skills Faster

LSA Global

Learn New Skills Faster|. Being able to learn new skills faster can help both individuals and organizations to outperform their peers. Whether it is learning new sales skills faster to sell new solutions to executive buyers or learning new management skills to lead a team for the first time, the ability to learn and apply new skills quickly can make or break a strategy.

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How Do Independent Consultants Get Clients?

MBO Partners

Landing new clients as an independent contractor can be a daunting task. Follow these four steps to find leads with minimal stress.

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How European Health Care Providers Are Engaging Doctors with New Technologies

Harvard Business

gremlin/Getty Images. Physician discontent over deteriorating working conditions and growing risks to patient care has risen to alarming levels in European hospitals. To understand physicians’ evolving reality, Bain’s biennial Europe Front Line of Health Care Survey tracks European practitioners’ attitudes, priorities and decision-making power.

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Service Execution: Where the Money is Made

Management and IT Consulting

Learn the top KPIs tied to service delivery, growth and operational excellence.

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How to Help Your Employees Learn from Each Other

Harvard Business

Tara Moore/Getty Images. When your team wants to learn a new skill, where do they turn first? Google? YouTube? Their corporate training programs? No. According to a study conducted by our company, Degreed, more workers first turn to their peers (55%)—second only to asking their bosses. Peer-to-peer learning can be a powerful development tool that breaks through some common barriers to skill-building — and it has other benefits as well.

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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