Tue.Aug 28, 2018

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Five Emotions that Stall Your Consulting Firm’s Business Development Efforts

David A Fields

Consulting is an emotion-driven purchase. If you don’t understand your consulting prospects’ desires and fears, their sources of happiness and anxiety, your business development efforts will hit hard ceilings. But what about your emotions? Could they be undermining your success? Dolls. Miniature people that kids play with.

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Assessment: How Productive Are You?

Harvard Business

Are you feeling overwhelmed by your obligations at work and home? You are in good company. A majority of U.S. employees complain that they feel overwhelmed, according to surveys. As a coach and mentor focusing on productivity, I’ve heard this complaint hundreds of times, from managers and officials across the world. Productivity has many aspects.

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How to Be Your Own Boss

MBO Partners

Becoming an independent consultant means you get to be your own boss, but that role comes with a lot of responsibility. Do you have what it takes?

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Why Women Stay Out of the Spotlight at Work

Harvard Business

pchyburrs/Getty Images. To get ahead in the workplace, you have to be seen. Being visible at work allows employees to demonstrate their skills, land prominent assignments, and build strategic relationships. For women, however, the importance of visibility creates a conundrum. On the one hand, women’s contributions are systematically overlooked at work.

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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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Sprints

Seth Godin Blog

How fast can you go? This is different from the question we ask ourselves most days at work. Careers are often seen as marathons, designed to last as long as we do. Sprinting—for an hour, a week or a month—develops a different perspective. It helps us understand our upper limit, establishing a performance setting that reminds us of what’s possible.

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8 Tactical Tips for Stress Free Business Travel

MBO Partners

Eliminate the hassle and stress of business travel by following these 8 easy steps.

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Why Adding More Products Isn’t Always the Best Way to Grow

Harvard Business

Justin Case/Getty Images. Back in 2006, McDonald’s saw its growth stall. The fast-food chain decided that the problem was its limited menu, so it tried out a great many new items and ended up doubling the offerings. But sales hardly budged. Finally, in 2016, it took a new tack. It went back to basics, dropped most of those additional items, and instead extended its popular breakfast offerings.

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CarMax Innovates with Omnichannel Strategy

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CarMax, the largest used car retailer in the U.S., is working to re-invent the used car market to be an omnichannel environment that’s innovative, easy to use, and transparent in an industry that depends on reliability. The automotive sector is a segment where omnichannel expectations are already firmly in place. Bain’s Global Automotive Consumer Survey found that half of customers interested in buying a car begin their journey online.

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Why Women Stay Out of the Spotlight at Work

Harvard Business

pchyburrs/Getty Images. To get ahead in the workplace, you have to be seen. Being visible at work allows employees to demonstrate their skills, land prominent assignments, and build strategic relationships. For women, however, the importance of visibility creates a conundrum. On the one hand, women’s contributions are systematically overlooked at work.

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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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5 Decision Making Tips for New Managers

LSA Global

Making the Right Decision. Kids don’t have to worry about decision making tips for new managers. They have it easy. They only need to use “eenie, meenie, miny, mo” to help them choose. But in the business world and especially for new managers who care so much about steering their team in the right direction, decisions are far more difficult to make.

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Are You Sacrificing for Your Work, or Just Suffering for It?

Harvard Business

Jens Magnusson/Getty Images. It was the last of three two-mile intervals, and I had one lap left. It was the point in a hard workout when the pain stops burning the legs and lungs and becomes a thick cloud of smoke behind the eyes. I saw my high school track coach standing on the side. “What’s the time?” I asked as I ran by. He glanced at the stopwatch hanging around his neck and shouted after me, “Too slow, if you have breath left to ask!

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