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What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? Part 4, Iterative and Incremental but Not Agile Lifecycles

Johanna Rothman

Which levers does your team need to manage risk in your project? Do you need to cancel the project if you can't finish a phase? You might not have the time. You might not have the ability to do this project. That's the point of Serial lifecycles in Part 1. Maybe you need feedback from customers. That's why you might choose an Iterative lifecycle in Part 2.

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The Status Quo of Crisis Preparedness Puts You at a Disadvantage—and It’s Time For That To Change

Melissa Agnes

Over the last couple of years, I’ve found myself increasingly frustrated with my industry, the crisis management profession. To put my frustration simply, the status quo of crisis preparedness and crisis management no longer suffices and, as a result, does a disservice to professionals, organizations and society. COVID-19 is a horrific example of how unfortunately true this statement is.

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What’s the purpose of a consulting firm?

The Source

There’s a moment in This is Going to Hurt , Adam Kay’s book about working as a doctor, where he walks past a person in a hospital corridor who’s in obvious distress. He walks on, then he turns back. Not doing so, he argues, would have made him complicit in the failure of an entire healthcare system, which is under pressure to be more efficient and to keep costs to the minimum, to care about its patients as people.

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How do you protect your employees workplace safety?

Consulthon

10 Simple Steps to Improve Workplace Safety: The cost of disabling injuries and illnesses reached almost $60 billion – and the top 10 injuries accounted for $51.4 billion, according to the Liberty.

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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 kinds of momentum

Seth Godin Blog

There’s the unalterable momentum of physical objects as understood by physics: objects in motion tend to remain that way. A fast-moving baseball hitting your head hurts more than lobbed one. But usually, momentum is only conceptual, and it’s based on our habits and our difficulty in understanding (and ignoring) sunk costs. We stick with a pattern, a leader, an employee or a project much longer than we should.

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3 lessons from getting stiffed by a client

Kai Davis

Today, a colleague reached out with a question and a problem: “Kai, I just had a long-term client stiff me on a small (3-figure) invoice. Should I call my lawyer? Send them to collections? What the hell should I do?”. I commiserated with my colleague — getting stiffed by a client is never fun — and we got to chatting about the experience. Turns out , once the emotions had faded, there were some prime business lessons at the top of mind that we got to talk through.

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Sexism

Harvard Business

Dear HBR: answers your questions with the help of HBS professor Katie Coffman.

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A Practical Guide to Building Ethical AI

Harvard Business

AI doesn’t just scale solutions — it also scales risk.

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How Indian Companies Are Using Technology to Reach New Consumers

Harvard Business

86% of global consumers live in developing countries.

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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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Put Employees at the Center of Your Post-Pandemic Digital Strategy

Harvard Business

Losing talent is your number one risk.