Steve Shu Consulting

JULY 12, 2017

I’ve started a journey to pursue a PhD in the area of behavioral finance. I am finding that the process of learning some of the ropes for a PhD resembles that many experience in consulting. Namely, a big component of the process is learning through apprenticeship. When pursuing a PhD, one has to synthesize a lot of tacit knowledge from many sources in order to develop facility and expertise.

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Chad Barr

JULY 12, 2017

I received a request this week from one of my clients asking me the best way to get a powerful video testimonial from a client. I’ve been saying for years that if you tell others how great you are, it can come across as boasting or a bunch of fluff. Yet if your clients tell others how great you are, that’s an indisputable fact! It is the social proof needed to increase your credibility and reputation.

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Actionable

JULY 12, 2017

If incivility chips away at health and performance, and if, collectively, we are feeling bombarded by incivility, what can we do? The post In the Face of Incivility, Choose to Thrive appeared first on Actionable.co.

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Consultants' Consultant

JULY 12, 2017

Consultants Consultant: You want to get what you want. If you don’t already have it then what you’re doing is not going to get it for you. You know that the definition of insanity is doing the same things and expecting different results. Here are some clues on what you might consider doing differently. The Primary Tactics […]. The post Tactics to Influence: Get what you want!

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MishTalk

JULY 12, 2017

Illinois now has a budget, the first in three fiscal years. An excellent writeup on The Stump entitled Illinois Financial Disaster: Even More Reactions to the Budget explains what passage of the budget does and does not do. Here are some links mentioned by The Stump and a few additional links and comments by me. (more…).

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MishTalk

JULY 12, 2017

The Brookings Institute says Auto slowdown Flashes Caution Lights for Manufacturing Employment and Trump. A switch to self-driving, trends towards electric, and a glut of used cars are all in the spotlight. (more…).

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Martinka Consulting

JULY 12, 2017

Recently it was Memorial Day, a day to honor those who died defending our country (although many confuse it with Veterans Day, which is to honor all military veterans). One of the things the United States is known for is freedom. Freedom of the press, freedom of ideas, and the freedom to succeed or fail. I’ve been involved with four startup businesses and two have failed (much better than the published numbers of 65-80% of startups fail).

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Gina Abudi

JULY 12, 2017

Have you asked the team lately? How are you doing as the team leader? When did you last ask your team how effectively you are doing as the lead? For longer running teams – 1 year or more – consider checking in every 6 months with your team to see how you are performing in [.]. The post How Are You Doing as Team Leader? appeared first on Gina Abudi.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

Many executives are fond of promising to deliver growth, but far fewer realize those ambitions. This is because many fundamentally mismanage the growth gap, which is the difference between their growth goals and what their base businesses can deliver. Filling the gap requires either innovative new offerings or acquisitions. That’s where the trouble starts — it is easy to be fooled by rosy assumptions that, when analyzed in a disciplined way, turn out not to be practical.

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MBO Partners

JULY 12, 2017

Keep these important considerations in mind when determining if going independent is the right decision for you.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

As consumers in this data-driven, algorithmically obsessed world, we’ve come to expect highly personalized experiences that are tailored to our specific needs. Companies like Netflix and Uber set that tone, giving us what we want, when we want it — usually on the first try. These “have it your way” consumer experiences have changed the way the business world thinks about sales.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

Dave Wheeler for HBR. Bring to mind a conflict at work, and you’ll probably have the perpetrator in mind: your incompetent boss , that passive-aggressive colleague, or the resource-hoarding peer in another department. We spend an inordinate amount of time complaining about these people, avoiding them, and fighting with them. But if you want to manage conflict in the workplace , you can’t start with someone else.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

Neasden Control Centre for HBR. It is barely 20 years since Sergey Brin and Larry Page registered the domain name google.com, and only 10 years since Steve Jobs walked onto a stage in San Francisco and introduced the iPhone. Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. We introduced the Digital Evolution Index in HBR in 2015 to trace the emergence of a “digital planet,” how physical interactions — in communications, social and political exchange, comme

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

While Edward Lloyd is largely credited with commercializing the insurance industry, with the creation of his namesake firm, Lloyd’s, over 330 years ago, the original concept of spreading risk (or “mutualizing”) goes back even further. Hundreds of years before Lloyd’s was formed, Chinese merchants would spread their valuable cargo across multiple vessels, with each one carrying an equal share of another merchant’s goods.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

The only thing that surprises me about the recent furor over sexual harassment by Silicon Valley venture capitalists is that people are surprised. We have been watching these stories go viral for a long time. When I give speeches in Silicon Valley about gender bias, I can’t tell you how many times female entrepreneurs have shared their stories with me about being treated by venture capitalists (VCs) as sexual opportunities rather than investment opportunities.

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