Mon.Nov 19, 2018

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4 Steps To Qualify Consulting Clients with Michael Norton: Podcast #63

Consulting Success

There are a lot of people who are working on building their consulting businesses. They may already have a process in place for their marketing or for their selling, yet they’re not getting the results that they want. Oftentimes, it’s because they’re not working the plan even though they have the plan in front of them. Michael Norton, executive vice-president of corporate training for Sandler, says usually what’s holding them back is their own head. 4 Steps To Qualify Con

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What Kind of Happiness Do People Value Most?

Harvard Business

Carol Yepes/Getty Images. Sure, everyone wants to be happy. But what kind of happiness do people want? Is it happiness experienced moment-to-moment? Or is it being able to look back and remember a time as happy? Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman described this distinction as “being happy in your life” versus “being happy about your life.” Take a moment to ask yourself, which happiness are you seeking?

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Shailendra Kumar on Smarter Data People Podcast

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: Shailendra Kumar is the author of Making Money out of data. It’s not an analytics book, it’s a business book. Shaily is a keynote speaker on data analytics. In this podcast he talks about the “everyone does analytics” phenomenon the importance of articulating the business problem before anything else what makes a real data scientist.

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Sisterhood Is Power

Harvard Business

From the Women at Work podcast: Listen and subscribe to our podcast via Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS. Download the discussion guide for this episode. Join our online community. Download this podcast. It takes time and care to develop trusting relationships with the women we work with, particularly women who are different from us in some way.

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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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Competitive or Collaborative Culture – Which is Better?

LSA Global

Competitive or Collaborative Culture in the Workplace. When designing the ideal organizational culture to best execute your business and people strategies, what is the best balance between healthy competition to motivate performance and smart collaboration to ensure that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts? As a leader, how do you know when a competitive or collaborative culture is better?

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Five Independent Workforce Trends Impacting the Future of Work

MBO Partners

Learn about the preferences and trends impacting today’s most in-demand independent professionals, and implications for your independent workforce strategy.

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How Geisinger Health System Reduced Opioid Prescriptions

Harvard Business

The devastating opioid epidemic in the U.S. is a crisis that was created, in part, by healthcare itself as prescriptions for pain-relieving medications rapidly increased in the 2000s. Now, healthcare is at the forefront in trying to fix the problem. At Geisinger, a healthcare system serving more than 1.5 million patients in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, where we work, we are taking a multifaceted approach and seeing a big impact.

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Signal to noise ratio

Seth Godin Blog

It’s almost impossible to have a substantive conversation at a soccer match. It’s too loud. Too much noise. It’s exhausting to listen to some politicians speak, because there’s nothing being said. Not enough signal. Signal to noise ratio is the measure of how much cruft we have to work through to get to the heart of the message.

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Grading The New York Times’ News Coverage, and Quick Takes on Random Things

Harvard Business

Youngme Moon and Felix Oberholzer-Gee decide to “grade” The New York Times’ news coverage, before sharing their quick takes on other random things. They also share their After Hours picks for the week. Download this podcast. For interested listeners: AG Sulzberger Interview with Kara Swisher (Recode Decode Podcast). You can email your comments and ideas for future episodes to: harvardafterhours@gmail.com.

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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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How Is the 2018 Holiday Customer Experience Shaping Up?

1 to 1

Consumer confidence is at an 18-year high and holiday shoppers are ready to spend. Total retail sales in the U.S are expected to exceed $1 trillion during the holiday season, representing the "strongest growth since 2011," according to eMarketer. But, if there’s anything to be learned from the so-called retail apocalypse, it’s that retailers can’t rely on the same strategies they used seven years ago.

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Celebrating 50 Years of the White Album

The Fearless Marketer

As long as I can remember, music has always been important to me. And at the tender age of 10, I (and several million others), discovered The Beatles. That started my record collection. I especially remember Beatles ’65, Help, Rubber Soul, Revolver and Sgt. Peppers. But The Beatles (commonly called The White Album), was something quite special. It was released 50 years ago this week, but I vividly remember listening to it for the very first time – and it blowing my 16-year old mind.

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Why “Many-Model Thinkers” Make Better Decisions

Harvard Business

“To be wise you must arrange your experiences on a lattice of models.” — Charlie Munger. Organizations are awash in data — from geocoded transactional data to real-time website traffic to semantic quantifications of corporate annual reports. All these data and data sources only add value if put to use. And that typically means that the data is incorporated into a model.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business

Andrew Brookes/Getty Images. Throughout the global economy, big companies are getting bigger. They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. The people lucky enough to work at these companies are doing relatively well. Those who work for the competition aren’t. Policymakers have noticed. Antitrust and competition policy are seeing renewed interest , including recent hearings on the subject by the Federal Trade Commission.

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Savings Consultants Are Needed in Today's Market More Than Ever

Savings Consultants are needed in today’s market more than ever. With an increase in expenses, businesses are looking for opportunities to save. Often unknown to businesses are savings in expense reduction, specialized tax savings, specialized savings including medical underpayments, health benefits cost reduction, zero cost processing, and more. Blue Coast Savings, with over 20 years in business, assists Savings Consultants in helping these companies move toward more profitable businesses.