David A Fields
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
Your consulting clients walk into each engagement holding bouquets of helium balloons they want to release to the sky. (Metaphorically, unless your clients are clowns.) Each balloon is an assumption, preconception, hypothesis or dream that only requires your confirmation. Often you’ll grant their wish, agreeably snipping the strings of doubts that restrain your client’s balloons.
Melissa Agnes
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
How Chipotle’s mindset and culture helped them manage their E. coli crisis, even though they were not technically crisis ready at the time. You can also listen to this episode on iTunes , Spotify , and Stitcher. William Espey, the man responsible for the voice of the brand that is Chipotle, joins the Invincible Brand Podcast to discuss the challenges Chipotle faced when managing the E. coli crisis in 2015, and the mindset and strategies they implemented to manage the many dynamics of this
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Johanna Rothman
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
I recorded a Being Human podcast with Richard Atherton. It’s wide-ranging from thinking about agile approaches as a way to improve organizational flow and what that means for us as humans. I had a blast. I think Richard did, too. He’s a think-before-he-speaks person, and if you watch the video, you can see him thinking. I’m a speak-before-I-think person, so our dynamics are quite fun to watch.
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
Paula Daniëlse/Getty Images. Body language varies significantly across cultures. What is considered rude or foolish in a Nordic country may be welcomed as warm and friendly in an African one. What a Canadian businessperson would perceive as arrogant, an American executive may see as healthy confidence. But what remains consistent across all known cultures are microexpressions.
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Henry DeVries
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
Time to shatter the marketing myth that by just helping enough business friends we will sooner or later receive our rewards. “The more intelligently you choose, create and grow the right relationships the greater your success will be," says Jim Cathcart, author of Relationship Selling.
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Management and IT Consulting
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
What to consider when evaluating business process automation software for professional services - based on hundreds of interviews with a wide range of firms.
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
Beth Comstock, the first female vice chair at General Electric, thinks companies large and small often approach innovation the wrong way. They either try to throw money at the problem before it has a clear market, misallocate resources, or don’t get buy in from senior leaders to enact real change. Comstock spent many years at GE – under both Jack Welsh’s and Jeffrey Immelt’s leadership – before leaving the company late last year.
MBO Partners
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
Business credit can provide protection, value, and financial security for your company. Here’s what you need to know.
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
Dirk Anschutz/Getty Images. The Q&A or fireside chat has become a popular format at events like conferences and employee town-halls, replacing more-formal presentations and panels. The one-on-one format can create a more conversational, interesting, and intimate experience, and has the added benefit that the CEO or luminary being interviewed theoretically doesn’t have to prepare as much.
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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
Seth Godin Blog
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
The candidate thinks, “I really need this job.” The hiring manager thinks, “I’m tired of this, I really need to fill this job.” As a result, the candidate says what he thinks will get him hired. He’s not listening, not really. And he’s not telling the truth, not really. He knows that he needs to thread a needle and say what needs to be said to get the job.
1 to 1
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
Trust is one of the most valuable assets we can give each other. And sometimes we don’t realize its value until it’s gone. In the post Facebook scandal world, trust and data haven’t exactly gone hand-in-hand. Following the (now dismantled) Cambridge Analytica data leak, a Business Insider survey found that 81 percent of participants are extremely unconfident as to whether Facebook would protect their data and privacy.
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
Gina Pricope/Getty Images. In the start-up world, the disruptor is the cool kid on the block, the one who’ll change the world — or at least the products you’ll buy and how you buy them. She takes on the grown-ups in suits and shows us all how dumb they are. Customers love her because she makes them feel like rebels (with a cause), suppliers love her because she makes them look smart, and — most importantly — investors love her because she makes them feel they’
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
Eric Frommelt/Getty Images. Ten years on from the financial crisis, stock markets are regularly reaching new highs and volatility levels new lows. The financial industry has enthusiastically and profitably embraced big data and computational algorithms, emboldened by the many triumphs of machine learning. However, it is imperative we question the confidence placed in the new generation of quantitative models, innovations which could, as William Dudley warned, “lead to excess and put the [f
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