Tue.Feb 27, 2018

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When to Start Fee Discussions with Consulting Prospects

David A Fields

It’s the topic that everyone has on their mind, but is uncomfortable bringing up. The one you know will have to be raised at some point, and you’re shy about broaching it too early. Male pattern baldness. Fees and pricing.

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How to Collaborate Effectively If Your Team Is Remote

Harvard Business

Hulton Archive/Hayon Thapaliya/Getty Images. Remote communication isn’t always easy. Do you recognize yourself in any of these examples? At 10 p.m., a corporate lawyer gets a text from a colleague and wonders (not for the first time) if there’s a protocol about work-related texts after a certain hour. After a long and liquid client dinner, an advertising executive opens an email from his boss reminding him to submit his expenses on time.

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The L&D Professional’s Secret Power as A Consultant

Clarity Consultants

Learning and development professionals have a unique place within an organization's structure. They are often tasked with the difficult objective of educating a technical or project-based workforce while not experiencing that environment first hand. That's why they are so appropriately placed to act the role of the consultant, where they work with other professionals in their field to build and develop talents, knowledge bases, skills, and abilities for the overall success of the company and the

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Low & Slow (vs. fear)

Seth Godin Blog

My sourdough rye bread failed. For the first time since I've been baking from this starter, this weekend's batch didn't work. I know why. I rushed it. I didn't let the dough ferment long enough. And then I made the oven hotter, in an effort to get the loaves finished so I could leave to meet someone. That's not how great bread works. It's ready when it's ready, not when you need it to be.

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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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We Won’t Get Value-Based Health Care Until We Agree on What “Value” Means

Harvard Business

HBR STAFF. Some health care leaders view with trepidation the new, disruptive health care alliance formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase. But I’m excited because disruption is all about delivering a new level of value for consumers. If this trio can disrupt the United States’ health care system into consistently delivering high-value care, we will all owe them our gratitude.

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Make Tools Like Slack Work for Your Company

Harvard Business

Tsedal Neeley, a professor at Harvard Business School, and Paul Leonardi, a management professor at UC Santa Barbara, talk about the potential that applications such as Slack, Yammer, and Microsoft Teams have for strengthening employee collaboration, productivity, and organizational culture. They discuss their research showing how effective these tools can be and warn about common traps companies face when they implement them.

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World Future Day – March 1 2018

Cheryl Cran

Every day we see and hear about the impact of fast paced change. The fear based view of the future is that there will be no jobs left for humans and that we will live and work in a world overrun by robots. The abundance based view of the future is that WE as humans […]. The post World Future Day – March 1 2018 appeared first on NextMapping.

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Do Academic Journals Favor Researchers from Their Own Institutions?

Harvard Business

dave wheeler for hbr. Are academic journals impartial? While many would suggest that academic journals work for the advancement of knowledge and science, we show this is not always the case. In a recent study , we find that two international relations (IR) journals favor articles written by authors who share the journal’s institutional affiliation.

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World Future Day – March 1 2018

Cheryl Cran

Every day we see and hear about the impact of fast paced change. The fear based view of the future is that there will be no jobs left for humans and that we will live and work in a world overrun by robots. The abundance based view of the future is that WE as humans have complete control over how we will program those robots, and how we will create our future.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

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

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3 Ways Your Online Side Gig Can Earn Customers’ Trust

Harvard Business

Dorling Kindersley/Hayon Thapaliya/Getty Images. Building trust with customers can be challenging – that’s especially true online, and it’s especially true if you are trying to launch a new venture that doesn’t have an existing track record of success. If you’re trying to get your Internet-based side venture off the ground, how can you build trust right away?

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Agile Transformation: Possible Organizational Measurements, Part 4

Johanna Rothman

“What should I measure???” is one of the questions I see when I work with people going through an agile transformation. Too often, managers measure people as individuals. (Traditional measurements focus on resource efficiency instead of flow efficiency.) Resource efficiency measures don’t measure what the organization delivers or what prevents the organization from delivering.

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Look! Up in the sky. It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s YOU!

Rod Burkert

Hey, this is my quasquicentennial (125 th ) newsletter. A big THANK YOU to all of my loyal readers and faithful commenters! I hope you found our last conversation about pricing with options to be useful. The lessons to take away from my $10k experience are that (1) you must listen to your prospects to find out exactly what is motivating them and (2) you can only get what you take the time to offer them.