Tue.Oct 15, 2019

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5 Success-Stealing Distractions at Your Consulting Firm

David A Fields

Clutter is the enemy, and not just in your clothes closet. Throughout your consulting practice, clutter and distractions are dampening your consulting firm’s success. A few years ago, a neuroscientist and a professor at Princeton University jointly released an article with a title cleverly designed to discourage you from reading their work: Interactions of Top-Down … Continued.

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Measuring Professional Services Marketing Effectiveness

Prudent Pedal

If I were to ask chief marketing officers (CMO) at professional services firms around the world to measure their teams’ current marketing effectiveness on a scale of 1-5, I suspect that I might get a lot of 4s. Humility would keep many from saying 5 and ego would keep scores from falling to an average of 3 (Just like the children of Lake Wobegon).

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How to Have a Relationship and a Career

Harvard Business

Jennifer Petriglieri, associate professor at INSEAD, studied more than 100 couples where both partners have big professional goals. She finds that being successful in your careers and your relationship involves planning, mapping, and ongoing communication. She also identifies different models for managing dual-career relationships and explains the traps that couples typically encounter.

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Freelancing is a brave act

Seth Godin Blog

When I quit my job in 1986 and went out on my own, it was shortly after my picture had appeared in a small feature in a national magazine. My grandmother proudly kept a copy of the magazine (not the article, the entire magazine) on her coffee table, proudly telling anyone who stopped by that her grandson was now a “FREE lancer.” Not sure what that meant, she had a hunch that it wasn’t nearly as stable, easy or prestigious as having an actual job.

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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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Goldman Sachs’ $500 Million Bet on Small Businesses

Harvard Business

Launched in the midst of the financial crisis, Goldman Sachs’ “10,000 Small Businesses” program provided business education and access to capital for small businesses across the United States. The company committed $500 million to fund the program and nine years later had graduated 7,300 participants, just shy of its goal. Harvard Business School professor Len Schlesinger discusses the success, impact, and future of the program.

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Corporate Action on Climate Change Has to Include Lobbying

Harvard Business

To solve the problem, we need government action.

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Do Colleges Truly Understand What Students Want from Them?

Harvard Business

They need to have a better understanding of why people applied in the first place.

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How Mayo Clinic Got Buy-In for a Plan to Reduce Hospital Stays

Harvard Business

You can’t approach internal and external stakeholders the same way.