Wed.Oct 31, 2018

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What To Do If Your Client Doesn't Pay

Successful Independent Consulting

It was bound to happen. After 15 years and hundreds of contracts, I finally had a client that didn’t pay, and didn’t pay, and didn’t pay. For six months there was one lame update after another. “We’re working on it,” or “We’ve switched to a new process.” Yesterday, my bank finally received the wire transfer. Here’s my story, what I learned along the way, and steps you can take if you find yourself in the same situation.

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Mental Energy Units

CaseInterview.com

When you’re an individual contributor, you focus mainly on time management. There are 24 hours in a day. You allocate them according to what’s most important to you. As you progress in your professional career (and as your personal life gets more complex, such as raising multiple children or caring for aging parents), it makes sense to optimize your life around a different kind of metric.

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Instructional Design Trends: What’s the Roadmap?

Clarity Consultants

The most effective learning mechanisms have a flow. One topic naturally segues to the next, making the experience as comfortable as it is informative. How do create a roadmap for this? The post Instructional Design Trends: What’s the Roadmap? appeared first on Clarity Consultants - Learning and Development.

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To a Brighter Future

Chad Barr

Photo by: Chad Barr. How should I open this week’s newsletter? With the tragic events of last week that have shaken our nation to its core, it’s important for us to not dwell on the horror but to look beyond and find a way to heal this great nation. As you know, I’m an immigrant to this land, in the religious minority, where the opportunities for success, growth and freedom, personal and religious, were many.

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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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The Myopia of Modern Business

Ben de Haldevang

Morning all, thanks for all your encouragement and various messages from last week…I appreciate all of it enormously and I’m excited about the opportunities for our baby going forward. Here is a link to an article written by my colleague, David Boyd. He captures beautifully the inherent conflict between the behaviour which we’re expected to exhibit in our corporate lives and that which is critical for our daily survival… characterised by Daniel Kahneman respectively as Sy

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If You Want To You Will

Martinka Consulting

I caught a small amount of the NFL Hall of Fame ceremonies on TV and was particularly drawn to Jerry Kramer’s acceptance speech. He mentioned how his high school line coach, after noticing him struggle, told him, “You can, if you will.”. At first he was befuddled by it. Then he figured it out, got a scholarship to the University of Idaho, won five NFL championships, was on the NFL’s 50 th anniversary team, and now the HOF.

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Is your practice in a coma? 6 questions that will get it off life support.

Rod Burkert

Greetings from Albuquerque – yep, still here … right on old Route 66 – where we are waiting for some veterinarian follow-up on Buster, our German Shepherd. Next stop – Lajitas, Texas, where we will ride out the rest of 2018. I hope you found our last conversation about LinkedIn ROI to be useful. If you are sharing content that is not generating the engagement you want make sure the content is valuable to your connections, tell your audience why you think the content is important enough to pay at

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How Bad is Airline Service, Really? And Other Customer Service Complaints

Harvard Business

Youngme Moon and Mihir Desai welcome their colleague Ryan Buell to discuss whether airlines deserve their reputation for terrible customer service. They also share other customer service pet peeves, as well as their personal “Customer Experience Picks.” Download this podcast. For interested listeners: • Ryan Buell in HBR: The Parts of Customer Service That Should Never Be Automated.

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Just because you don’t understand it

Seth Godin Blog

…doesn’t mean it isn’t true. …doesn’t mean it isn’t important. If we spend our days ignoring the things we don’t understand (because they must not be true and they must not be important) all we’re left with is explored territory with little chance of improvement.

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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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Better Ways to Communicate Hospital Data to Physicians

Harvard Business

Dave King/Getty Images. We recently conducted an in-depth study at Lumere to gain insight into physicians’ perceptions of clinical variation and the factors influencing their choices of drugs and devices. Based on a survey of 276 physicians, our study results show that it’s necessary to consistently and frequently share cost data and clinical evidence with physicians, regardless of whether they’re affiliated with or directly employed by a hospital.

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The first 1,000 are the most difficult

Seth Godin Blog

For years, I’ve been explaining to people that daily blogging is an extraordinarily useful habit. Even if no one reads your blog, the act of writing it is clarifying, motivating and (eventually) fun. A collection of daily bloggers I follow have passed 1,000 posts (it only takes three years or so…). Fortunately, there are thousands of generous folks who have been posting their non-commercial blogs regularly, and it’s a habit that produces magic.

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4 Analytics Concepts Every Manager Should Understand

Harvard Business

Jorg Greuel/Getty Images. Like many professionals, my job doesn’t require expertise in data or analytics. I’m a writer and editor, so I deal with words, not numbers. Still, nearly every knowledge worker today needs to be a regular consumer of data analysis. For example, I need to understand whether and why articles on having a mid-career crisis outperformed ones on receiving feedback or why pieces with particular headlines get more traffic than others.

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Why Brand Marketers are Saying ‘Yes’ to Controversial Topics

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Patagonia is endorsing two political candidates. Nike’s Colin Kaepernick ad spurred some customers to burn their sneakers. Are brands throwing out the rulebook on avoiding social and political topics? Yes and no. At Incite Group’s Brand Marketing Summit, marketers explained why they’re wading into sensitive topics. “Consumers are craving brands that have a point of view,” said Jill Cress, chief marketing and communications officer of National Geographic Partners.

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Savings Consultants Are Needed in Today's Market More Than Ever

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.

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Research: When Getting Fired Is Good for Your Career

Harvard Business

Blaise Hayward/Getty Images. Most leaders are, deep down, afraid of failure. But our 10-year CEO Genome study of over 2,600 leaders showed almost half (45%) suffered at least one major career blow-up — like getting fired, messing up a major deal, or blowing an acquisition. Despite that, 78% of these executives eventually made it to the CEO role.

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To Combat Harassment, More Companies Should Try Bystander Training

Harvard Business

ICHIRO/Getty Images. As the wave of #MeToo stories have come to light over the past year, it’s become painfully clear that whatever organizations are doing to try to prevent sexual harassment isn’t working. Ninety-eight percent of companies say they have sexual harassment policies. Many provide anti-sexual harassment training. Some perpetrators have been fired or fallen from grace.

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When CEOs Should Speak Up on Polarizing Issues

Harvard Business

fotog/Getty Images. CEO activism, the growing trend of top executives speaking out on sensitive social and political issues, has been labeled the “ new normal.” But behind the scenes, executives do not feel in control. They are struggling to anticipate and respond to intensifying pressure from the public, investors, and — above all — their employees.