Thu.Aug 17, 2017

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Essential Consultant Website Pages Part 3: Curating your Resources

Tsavo Neal

Having an active blog is one of the most important aspects of your consulting website. An active blog with quality, original, contrarian content is essential for generating leads through your website. Posting your insights to your blog will put you ahead of 80% of your competition. But how do you position yourself in front of all your competition? Could you provide your prospects with a better experience for reading your articles?

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Leaders Network Retreat Provides Insights and Connections to Fuel for Business Growth

Women in Consulting

:: “In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.” Albert Camus. Turning away from the day-to-day “busy-ness” of running your business is critical to remembering why you started it and what you need to do to propel it forward. I am huge believer in regular and focused retreats because they have been critical in the success of my business.

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"I have fear"

Seth Godin Blog

There's a common mistranslation that causes us trouble. We say, "I am afraid," as if the fear is us, forever. We don't say, "I am a fever" or "I am a sore foot." No, in those cases, we acknowledge that it's a temporary condition, something we have, at least for now, but won't have forever. "Right now, I have fear about launching this project," is quite different from, "I'm afraid.".

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Creating Agile HR, Part 8: Summary

Johanna Rothman

Let me circle back around to what HR does, as in Part 1 : Administration and Benefits. Compensation and rewards. Education and training. Recruitment. Hiring. Of these, it makes sense to change the compensation and rewards approach, recruitment and hiring if the organization wants to create an agile culture. It’s possible to create a more agile approach to education and training.

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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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It’s Time to Tie Executive Compensation to Sustainability

Harvard Business

Neasden Control Centre for HBR. Despite conflicting messages about climate change from U.S. government leaders, sustainability is getting more and more attention at American companies. Shareholders are ratcheting up their demands on environmental and social issues. Consumers are registering their concerns about how companies make their products. And talented Millennial employees are voting with their feet by leaving laggard companies behind.

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What 11 CEOs Have Learned About Championing Diversity

Harvard Business

The business case for diversity is clear. Diversity can boost innovation and employee engagement , and companies with greater gender and racial diversity financially outperform their peers. Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels.

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What to Include on a Professional Invoice

MBO Partners

Six essential components of an effective invoice.

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5 Questions to Help Your Employees Find Their Inner Purpose

Harvard Business

How can leaders help employees find meaning at work? Organizations spend considerable resources on corporate values and mission statements, but even the most inspiring of these — from Volvo’s commitment to safety to Facebook’s desire to connect people — tend to fade into the background during the daily bustle of the work day.

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Fearful Investors Losing Faith in Trump?

MishTalk

Mainstream media likes to assign a reason for every squiggle in the stock market, bond market, or commodities. Today provides an amusing example. (more…).

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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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What the Science Actually Says About Gender Gaps in the Workplace

Harvard Business

Former Google engineer James Damore was hardly the first person to argue that biological differences between men and women determine career outcomes. Many people — even smart, science-minded ones — have asserted that biological differences can explain the gender gap in math, engineering, and science. A 2005 Gallup poll found that 21% of Americans believed men were better than women in terms of their math and science abilities (though 68% believed men and women were about the same).

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How Gatorade Invented New Products by Revisiting Old Ones

Harvard Business

When it comes to innovation, businesses have a strong bias for the new. The idea of creating a fresh new product, the prospect of increasing market share with brand new offerings, or the vision of disrupting some slow-moving incumbent with a radical new technology – these have an inherently strong appeal for companies keen for growth. What’s more, legacy products seem to be at a natural disadvantage.