David A Fields
OCTOBER 31, 2017
In consulting, the size of your network matters. Whether you’re making rain for a $40k startup or a $40m boutique consulting firm, one of your challenges is increasing your pool of prospects—contacts who could become lucrative, long-term clients.
Tsavo Neal
OCTOBER 31, 2017
Michael Zipursky is the founder and CEO of ConsultingSuccess.com , where he helps consultants attract more clients, increase their fees, and structure their consulting business for success. His latest book, The Elite Consulting Mind: 16 Proven Mindsets to Attract More Clients, Increase Your Income and Achieve Meaningful Success is a treasure-trove of information on how to build a successful consulting business.
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Strategy+Business
OCTOBER 31, 2017
Those who lead and advise companies on their digital transformation should rely more on imagination and less on experience.
Consultants' Consultant
OCTOBER 31, 2017
Consultants Consultant: Men and women are different. We know that. But what are the blind spots? The post Gender Politics appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.
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Seth Godin Blog
OCTOBER 31, 2017
More and more, we create our work to be read by a machine. SEO specialists tell you how to write a blog post that Google will like. Your resumé needs to have the right keywords to get tagged. Everything has an ISBN, an ASIN or a catalog number. Ideas become data become databases. We did the same thing when assembly lines started up. Every part had to be the same size, the cogs in the system were less important than the system itself.
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LSA Global
OCTOBER 31, 2017
Want to Build a Strong Culture of Employees with Super Powers? Do you have a clue about what genuinely engaged and aligned employees can do for your strategy, your culture and your brand? If not, listen up! The Two-Fold Impact of Highly Aligned and Engaged Employees. Employees who are passionate about what they do and the company they work for can have an enormous two-fold impact.
Strategy+Business
OCTOBER 31, 2017
Those who lead and advise companies on their digital transformation should rely more on imagination and less on experience.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 31, 2017
Steven Moore for HBR. Nancy started her day feeling prepared to brief her executive team on a high-stakes project she had been working on for the past two months. She had rehearsed her slide deck repeatedly, to the point where she had every level of content practically memorized. She arrived at the meeting early and waited patiently, yet anxiously, for her part of the agenda.
Peter Stark
OCTOBER 31, 2017
Do you have people on your team that drive you nuts? In twenty years of consulting, I have learned that people described as “difficult” often times are not difficult at all, they are just different in their interaction and communication style. As a leader, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to lead a team of people with diverse behavioral styles.
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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
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 31, 2017
HBR Staff/CSA Plastock/Getty Images. Just over 10 years ago, French bank BNP Paribas froze U.S. mortgage-related funds. Defaults on subprime mortgage loans mounted. The market panicked. There was a run on British bank Northern Rock. Over the next year, many banks fell. Investment bank Bear Stearns collapsed. Lehman Brothers toppled. Many other financial firms including AIG, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac needed bail outs.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 31, 2017
ben edwards/Getty Images. Across the health care industry, there’s a growing sense that pushing doctors ever harder to achieve productivity, quality, and service goals is backfiring. Doctors are working harder than ever and spending more of their time documenting clinical metrics and measuring patient satisfaction. One consequence of this growing burden, studies show , is that more physicians are considering leaving their jobs or complaining of depression, exhaustion, and detachment that c
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 31, 2017
Scott Kelly, a retired U.S. astronaut, spent 520 days in space over four missions. Working in outer space is a lot like working on earth, but with different challenges and in closer quarters. Kelly looks back on his 20 years of working for NASA, including being the commander of the International Space Station during his final, yearlong mission. He talks about the kind of cross-cultural collaboration and decision making he honed on the ISS, offering advice that leaders can use in space and on ear
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 31, 2017
Dave Wheeler for HBR. When Yelp was a startup with just 15 employees, the office manager began to stock the kitchen with drinks and snacks to get everyone through the long afternoons. Juice, water, fruit, chips, and as much candy as could be stuffed into the small kitchen drawer. Being at work was like being, well, a kid in a candy shop: a bottomless supply of Snickers, Twix, 3 Musketeers, M&M’s, Almond Joys — the list goes on.
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Savings Consultants are needed in today’s market more than ever. With an increase in expenses, businesses are looking for opportunities to save. Often unknown to businesses are savings in expense reduction, specialized tax savings, specialized savings including medical underpayments, health benefits cost reduction, zero cost processing, and more. Blue Coast Savings, with over 20 years in business, assists Savings Consultants in helping these companies move toward more profitable businesses.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 31, 2017
Andrew Hays/EyeEm/Getty Images. Tamara joined her company as a group manager. Her deep technical skills, competence in managing people, and ability to deliver results helped her get rapidly promoted to vice president. Tamara was well-regarded by the executive team at her company, many of whom continued to encourage her professional advancement. In her organization, several of her peers had been promoted to the next level within three years.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 31, 2017
John Leyba/Getty Images. “We can’t have the inmates running the prison.” With those emphatic words at an NFL owners meeting in New York on October 18, 2017, Houston Texans owner Robert C. McNair set off a firestorm. His all-pro receiver DeAndre Hopkins skipped practice in protest, and the entire team threatened a walkout that was averted only by a 90-minute team meeting in which head coach Bill O’Brien managed to settle them down.
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