Markovitz Consulting

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

I started using Mike Rother’s Toyota Kata approach at a new client in NYC recently. The mechanics are young (18-25 years) old, and the education level is low. No one has been to college, and not all of them have even completed high school. Some of the obstacles I ran into were predictable to anyone who’s used kata before—people jumping to solutions rather than identifying real problems, focusing on symptoms rather than root causes, turning the discussion around obstacles into a (long and loud) g

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IMC USA

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Fort Lauderdale, Florida. — September 5, 2018 — The Institute of Management Consultants USA (IMC USA, www.imcusa.org ) is pleased to announce that graduate professor of marketing and business author Dr. Tony Alessandra will provide the opening keynote speech for its annual international consulting conference, “ Consult-Con 2018: Fearless Consulting in Disruptive Times ” ( www.imcusaconference.org ).

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Open NYC Consulting Bootcamp As you get ready for the highly competitive consulting field, do you ever wish you could just get some face-time with an expert to get all the best tips and advice about your case interview skills, … Continued. The post 2018 Open NYC Consulting Bootcamp appeared first on Management Consulted.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Many people draw distinctions between people who do management-kind of work and people who do “individual contributor” kind of work. I’ve been asking if they mean individual work or team member work. Sometimes, they do mean individual work. More often, they mean team member. Our culture shapes our language. (And, our language shapes our culture.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Over the last few years, I’ve noticed a dramatic decline in the number of conversations that involve critical reasoning and independent thinking. I’m very concerned by this trend. One obvious place this has occurred is in American politics. I have friends across the full spectrum of political beliefs. I am shocked at how many debates devolve into arguments that involve barely any facts.

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Chad Barr

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Photo by: Chad Barr. This Sunday evening, we will usher in the Jewish New Year 5779. I will have the privilege of joining my wife in leading worship services, accompanying her on guitar. One of the highlights of this service is hearing the sounds of the shofar, the ram’s horn; 100 blasts in all! It is a time for us to be awakened by the sounds, and to look inward at our deeds and our actions over the past year.

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Consultants' Consultant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Consultants Consultant: Training your data science team is tough. They are already fabulously smart. Making them smarter, faster and nicer is hard. It needs focus determination and the right combination of information. You want them to work well with their customers. Need them to work for you. Whatever you do shouldn’t add to your workload. So what can you do […].

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Rod Burkert

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

We are down to our last few days in Wisconsin. We’ll be pulling out Monday, having made some interior improvements that will make keepin’ on even more comfortable for how we live and work in the RV. And it appears I have some catching up to do! Three weeks ago, I wrote about how you come up with your price. It ISN’T the hours you work times some manufactured hourly rate.

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Consultants' Consultant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Consultants Consultant: Training your data science team is tough. They are already fabulously smart. Making them smarter, faster and nicer is hard. It needs focus determination and the right combination of information. You want them to work well with their customers. Need them to work for you. Whatever you do shouldn’t add to your workload. So what can you do […].

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

hideki kuwajima/Getty Images. We know it’s awkward, talking about class. Especially in the United States, talking about class is considered taboo. When the subject comes up, otherwise articulate and extroverted people suddenly clam up and be struck dumb by the social awkwardness that is a customary partner of conversations about class. But class background matters in the workplace.

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Consultants' Consultant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Consultants Consultant: Manage time using Business Process Re-engineering (BPR). BPR your life takes the principles of business process re-engineering and applies them to the way you manage your time (and therefore your life). This article was published in Leadership Excellence in 2006. Other authors in that issue include Warren Bennis and Dave Ulrich.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

david malan/Getty Images. Imagine you are a member of a purchasing team. Your manager sets a goal: she wants everyone on your team to make at least one deal with a supply company of their choice. You end up signing a deal with a supplier who offers a great price, but — unbeknownst to you — is infamously slow to deliver. One of your colleagues has worked with them before, but the two of you haven’t been communicating much with each other, so he fails to advise you against it.

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Strategy+Business

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

A new survey finds women in FS face more challenges at work than their counterparts in other industries.

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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Today’s the launch of the Bootstrapper’s Workshop. It’s an intensive community-based virtual seminar, designed to take from 21 to 100 days. What you’ll learn: A third way to be independent. Not the daily struggle of the gig-seeking freelancer, nor the high-stakes VC world of the big-time entrepreneur. Instead, the bootstrapper finds freedom early and often, by building an enterprise that customers want so much that they become the source of funding.

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Cheryl Cran

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

To get to the fast changing future is going to require a whole lot of willingness to hear things we might not want to hear. Future of work needs leaders who can give candid feedback. I remember in my early banking career I had been through a series of bank robberies and my boss told […]. The post Future of Work Needs Leaders Who Can Give Candid Feedback appeared first on NextMapping.

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Martinka Consulting

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

I look across the lake (figuratively) at Seattle and its City Council. I see a bunch of single issue councilmembers with no big picture focus or strategy. This was confirmed by the headline in the July 19 Seattle Times about how the city wants to push forward with more bike lanes. The sub-headline was about how transportation officials see obstacles, mainly all the existing construction downtown.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Martin Diebel/Getty Images. When David White became Global VP of Supply Chain at Campbell Soup Company in 2004, the company had a shocking lost-time injury rate of 1.24%. This meant that of the 24,000 people working in the company at the time, one person per day was getting seriously hurt somewhere around the world. These were bad injuries, not just burns or cuts.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Noctiluxx/Getty Images. When it comes to design thinking, the bloom is off the rose. Billed as a set of tools for innovation, design thinking has been enthusiastically and, to some extent, uncritically adopted by firms and universities alike as an approach for the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. But skepticism about design thinking has now begun to seep out onto the pages of business magazines and educational publications.

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