Consulting Success

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Set yourself apart from the pack, protect your success, and pick clients you want to work with, all with the advice of Facebook ads expert Nicholas Kusmich. Description: Nicholas started out as a pastor who was committed to not relying on his congregation for his salary. That commitment required a side hustle of some sort, which is when Nicholas turned to the internet marketing world.

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Women in Consulting

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

:: On Tuesday, November 7th, 2017, Breaking Glass Forums is bringing together incredible women of color leaders, thought provoking workshop facilitators and committed ally advocates in support of a one-day program designed to help all of us play a bigger game. Participants will engage in deep dialogue, meet future champions and get equipped with practical strategies to not just talk about change but to make change real.

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Strategy+Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Ryan Avent writes that this year's best business books on economics all look back, with various degrees of pessimism on the construction of the post-World War II order, and on its demise. Marc Levinson's An Extraordinary Time chronicles the remarkable growth of the period between 1945 and 1973 -- and suggests the problems that have cropped up in the past 40 years represent a reversion to the mean.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Tang Yau Hoong/Getty Images. Almost everyone who’s ever gone to work has had to deal with an office manipulator. Unfortunately, most employees hesitate to go public with their concerns. And with good reason: Even if they do, typical corporate responses range from wary or dismissive to actually retaliating against the victim , rather than the wrongdoer.

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Strategy+Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Duff McDonald writes that 2017's best business books on management all draw their inspiration from neuroscience. It turns out that we are gaining new insight into how to use our knowledge of how the brain works to make better decisions and work more effectively. The best of the crop, Stealing Fire, by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal, is a thrilling tour through the ways organizations as diverse as Red Bull and the Navy SEALs are harnessing the concept of flow.

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Strategy+Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Sally Helgesen writes that this year's best business books on leadership hammer home the importance of such human values as flexibility, humility, and courage. Sam Walker's The Captain Class describes the ways athletic success rests on team captains, whose leadership capabilities are as impressive as their athletic capabilities. One Mission, by Chris Fussell with C.W.

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Martinka Consulting

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

In the recent news is the story of how Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was removed from office based on corruption charges and not being “honest.” I’m guessing there were some political motivations behind this. What was reported by only some outlets was one of the key pieces of “evidence.” Some London real estate was owned by his children and his daughter produced a document showing she was not an owner but only a trustee of some offshore accounts.

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Strategy+Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

This year's best business books on strategy focus to different degrees on the importance and practice of innovation, Ken Favaro writes. The most compelling of this year's crop is If You're in a Dogfight, Become a Cat, in which Leonard Sherman describes how market-leading companies can continue to build profitable growth over the long term. In The Net and the Butterfly, Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack investigate the neuroscience behind innovation and lay out a detailed road map for how execu

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Aaron Tilley/Getty Images. William Osler, often called the father of modern medicine, famously advised his students: “Just listen to your patient; he is telling you the diagnosis.” A century later, clinicians and health system leaders started tuning out the patient’s voice, turning instead to electronic health records and the latest care protocols to manage their most complicated and high-need patients.

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Strategy+Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Cathy Taylor reviews the best business books on marketing and sales of the year. Leading the pack is Superconsumers, by Eddie Yoon, a highly relatable book that describes how companies can thrive by identifying, catering to, and learning from their most committed and passionate customers. Joseph Turow's The Aisles Have Eyes takes a dim view of the potential uses of big data, analytics, and the Internet of Things to alter the way marketers relate to consumers.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Skopein/Getty Images. When you’re in a startup, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not. Each is ten percent of the company. So why wouldn’t you take as much time as necessary to find all the A-players? … A small company depends on great people much more than a big company does. — Steve Jobs. Identifying, recruiting , and retaining the right employees are among the most important tasks in the formative stages of a new business — and a

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Strategy+Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Our writers' selection of the year's best business book in seven categories.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Pat LaCroix/Getty Images. “What’s wrong — is the company going bankrupt? Are we being sold?” For Charlie, who had joined his family’s bakery business two years after getting his MBA and earning his stripes at another company, this question from the plant manager came out of the blue. He was eager to earn his colleagues’ respect, rather than relying on his family name to provide it.

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Strategy+Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Our picks for the best business books of 2017 in seven categories.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Dan Kenyon/Getty Images. “We found the perfect strategy” ranks with “And they lived happily ever after” as a perpetual myth. A strategy is never excellent in and of itself; it is shaped, enhanced, or limited by implementation. Top leaders can provide the framework and tools for a team, but the game is won on the playing field.

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Strategy+Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

This year's best business books on innovation offer insights into the way big data and new technologies are upending how we consider consumer needs and decision making. In Competing against Luck, Clayton Christensen and his coauthors argue that customers effectively hire products and services to do a job -- and that this insight should inform innovation strategy.

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MBO Partners

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

A look into 10 myths about independent contracting.

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Strategy+Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Each year, strategy+business taps expert journalists, academics, and practitioners to review the best business books of the past year in seven genres: Innovation, Strategy, Narratives, Leadership, Economics, Marketing, and Management. The resulting essays cover volumes thin and thick, bestsellers and less-promoted volumes from academic presses, investigations of the past and forecasts for the future.

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Strategy+Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Bethany McLean reviews the best business books of the year that take the form of narratives, and they focus on issues of crime and punishment -- or lack of punishment. In Why They Do It, Harvard Business School professor Eugene Soltes gets up close and personal with dozens of white-collar criminals to learn how they went astray. Cyrus Bozorgmehr, in Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, tells the bizarre, rollicking story of how Wu-Tang Clan set out to record an album that would be sold to -- and heard b

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