David A Fields

JULY 2, 2019

Rick, a friend and colleague of mine, routinely sells millions of dollars in consulting projects for his boutique consulting practice. How? Since Rick had the same question, a few years ago he analyzed 95 consulting proposals he had submitted in order to find out why some closed and others didn’t. Cool! Then, he shared his … Continued. The post Consulting Projects: 6 Ways to Close ‘em, 5 Ways to Lose ‘em appeared first on David A.

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Management Consulted

JULY 2, 2019

Though the case interview is the most important aspect of management consulting recruiting, don’t overlook the consulting fit interview. This is how consulting firms assess how you’ll interact with a Fortune 500 CEO client. After all, firms do not hire … Continue Reading. The post Consulting Interview: 4 Types of Consultant Fit Interview Questions appeared first on Management Consulted.

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Rick Conlow

JULY 2, 2019

How many times have you heard the statement, nobody communicates around here? With all of the new technology, research says people are communicating more but it’s less effective. A Manager Changes. A manager I know does a good job, but recently his team gave him feedback that nobody communicates around here. It shook him to his core because he worked hard at engaging his team.

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Clarity Consultants

JULY 2, 2019

Employee performance challenges can be the result of a lack of appropriate training. When a team member lacks knowledge in a critical area, productivity and the quality of their work can both suffer. The post How to Spot Employee Performance Challenges and Provide the Right Training appeared first on Clarity Consultants - Training Development.

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JULY 2, 2019

If William of Occam were alive today, I think we can be fairly certain that he wouldn’t have been a management consultant. Famously, the principle of Occam’s razor states that, faced with many possible explanations, the simplest is the most likely. Consultants, I sometimes feel, take the opposite approach: Faced with many possible explanations, they’ll favour the most complex.

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Seth Godin Blog

JULY 2, 2019

The first week of business school was pretty miserable for me. I had no idea if the others were feeling as underwater as I was, because I was focused on my own challenges. And then, a few days into the semester, Chip Conley , a fellow student, put a note in my campus mailbox. To paraphrase, “I’m organizing a five-person brainstorming group, and I’m hoping you can join us.” Chip wasn’t in charge of anything.

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Harvard Business

JULY 2, 2019

Eugene Soltes, associate professor at Harvard Business School, studies white-collar crime and has even interviewed convicts behind bars. While most people think of high-profile scandals like Enron, he says every sizable organization has lapses in integrity. He shares practical tools for managers to identify pockets of ethical violations to prevent them from ballooning into serious reputational and financial damage.

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LSA Global

JULY 2, 2019

Is Your Strategy Set Up to Be Operationalized? Are you ready to operationalize your strategy? A strategy without people consistently implementing it together is useless. And yet IBM found that less than 1 out of 10 strategies are effectively executed. In most instances the strategic plans were in place, but strategy implementation was poor. If you cannot operationalize your strategy, your thoughtful plans and exciting ideas in the board room will not translate into coordinated actions on the f

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Harvard Business

JULY 2, 2019

A study of pharmaceutical firms finds that it leads to valuable collaborations.

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Cheryl Cran

JULY 2, 2019

Cheryl Cran: I’m really excited today, to have Amber Mac as our guest. Amber please share with our clients your background. Amber Mac: Thank you, I’ve been working for almost 20 years now in the technology industry. I started out getting into the weeds at a couple of tech startups in San Francisco. I have a journalism […]. The post How To Be Future Ready – Interview with Amber Mac appeared first on NextMapping.

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Harvard Business

JULY 2, 2019

How to educate yourself without burdening your colleagues.

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1 to 1

JULY 2, 2019

Customer Contact Week—a conference focused on customer experience and customer care technology and trends—recently celebrated its 20th anniversary in Las Vegas. So, how has the customer experience evolved in the past two decades? While there have been some significant technological advances, attendees agreed that far more work remains to better serve customers.

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Harvard Business

JULY 2, 2019

First, identify what’s stressing you out.

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Harvard Business

JULY 2, 2019

They don’t separate good products from great ones.

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