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Dead or Playing Possum?

Martinka Consulting

In honor of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and other big shopping days, here’s an opinion on the retail industry, trends, and sticking with it. “What goes around comes around” is an old saying meaning things eventually return to their original value after some sort of cycle (and it’s a hit song by Justin Timberlake). How long ago was it when every pundit and everybody you spoke with was saying “retail is dead?

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The View from the Top of Women's Tennis

Strategy+Business

Driven by her sense of purpose and helped along the way by megastar players such as Serena Williams, Katrina Adams, the former head of the United States Tennis Association (USTA), has successfully fought for equality and diversity in women's tennis. Adams is a sought-after speaker, and as she steps down from role at the USTA, her experience and cool leadership under pressure have attracted attention from business and finance -- which will be her next career move.

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The fourth cycle of the hive mind (and what to do about it)

Seth Godin Blog

The first cycle of computers was good at: arithmetic. and storing data. This meant that if you wanted to know how strong a bridge was going to be, or how to schedule a complicated series of truck deliveries, a computer was the very best way to do it. The 1960s and 70s were transformed by these two simple tasks. We were able to send a rocket to the moon, design more efficient engines and compute weighted class rank using centralized, expensive computers.

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The View from the Top of Women's Tennis

Strategy+Business

Driven by her sense of purpose and helped along the way by megastar players such as Serena Williams, Katrina Adams, the former head of the United States Tennis Association (USTA), has successfully fought for equality and diversity in women's tennis. Adams is a sought-after speaker, and as she steps down from role at the USTA, her experience and cool leadership under pressure have attracted attention from business and finance -- which will be her next career move.

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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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Two Traits that Help Build Trust

Leadership Vision Consulting

Welcome to the next installment of the Leadership Vision Podcast where we share our expertise in the discovery, practice, and implementation of a strengths-based approach to people, teams, and culture. On this episode of the podcast, Linda Schubring and I are talking about two traits that help build trust. Our thinking on this has been shaped by a […].

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The Weekly Independent: January 21, 2019

MBO Partners

News and notes for independent professionals and their clients. This is the January 21, 2019 edition.

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Building Strong Relationships

Peter Stark

When you open your mouth, do you move one step closer to your goal? Recently, I was standing in line at the security checkpoint at the Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport when this woman in front of me refused to take off her shoes and go through the x-ray machine. I’m a consultant. I’m a coach. I can help. So, I told her that taking off your shoes, putting them in the grey buckets and they go through the machine and it’s so cool, you get them at the other end was going to be helpful information to her