Mon.Jun 18, 2018

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The BraveHeart Exit Strategy Consultants Randy And Ellen Long: Podcast #41

Consulting Success

You might be focused on growing your business, but what do you have planned after that? Maybe it’s time for you to start an exit strategy the BraveHeart way with Randy and Ellen Long to teach you how. Randy is CEO of Long Business Advisors, LLC, creator of the BraveHeart Planning Process, and author of the book, The BraveHeart Exit: 7 Steps to Creating Your Family Business Legacy.

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How Marketers Can Connect Profit and Purpose

Harvard Business

Andy Roberts/Getty Images. It takes time for a big idea to make its way into business practice. Six years ago, Harvard’s Michael Porter and FSG’s Mark Kramer made the bold statement that shared value — the idea that the purpose of a company is to achieve both shareholder profit and social purpose — would “reinvent capitalism.” They encouraged companies to go beyond CSR (corporate social responsibility) and integrate social impact into companies’ competit

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The "Horizon Problem"

CaseInterview.com

When I mentor people, they often ask me for my thoughts about specific career choices they are considering. Invariably, the questions fall into two categories. 1) How do I succeed in a pre-structured career path (e.g., making partner in a consulting firm)? 2) How do I succeed in forging my own path that isn’t pre-structured (e.g., changing industries, starting a company, switching functional areas)?

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Podcast about the Business of Writing and Consulting

Johanna Rothman

Consultants and writers share a common problem: we are business owners. That means we manage our businesses. Yes, I manage my own product development and my business. The great Joanna Penn interviewed me and the podcast is now live: Strategy And Business Plans For Authors With Johanna Rothman. If you write and self-publish, you should listen to Joanna.

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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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Is the World Becoming Safer for Whistle-Blowers?

Strategy+Business

In recent years, a host of legal changes have afforded more protection for people who call out wrongdoing in their organizations.

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Can Being Overconfident Make You a Better Leader?

Harvard Business

OLI SCARFF/Getty Images. When Apple CEO Steve Jobs approached AT&T about partnering on a new kind of mobile phone — a touchscreen computer that would fit in your pocket — Apple had no expertise in the mobile market. Yet AT&T executives quickly came to believe so strongly in Job’s vision that they skipped internal process protocols to land the deal.

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4 Field-Tested Places to Focus as a New Manager

LSA Global

Your Team Is Watching. With one stroke of the pen, the promotion became real. You were suddenly thrust into the position of leader. Unfortunately the abilities and attributes that earned you the more exalted position are not the same abilities and attributes you will need to succeed as a leader. To succeed, you need to learn to focus as a new manager to be a good manager.

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Getting Doctors to Make Better Decisions Will Take More than Money and Nudges

Harvard Business

Tim Robberts/Getty Images. Research has repeatedly shown that U.S. patients receive recommended care only half of the time. It is also known that patients receive non-recommended or “low-value” care as much as 20% of the time. Despite the proliferation of evidence-based guidelines to improve clinicians’ practice patterns, clinicians often don’t respond to them.

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What is a Scope of Work (SOW) and Why Do I Need One as an Independent Professional?

MBO Partners

A Scope of Work (SOW) is a foundational document to any contractor-client relationship. Here’s what you need to know about creating a SOW for your next project.

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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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Are Countries Prepared for the Increasing Threat of Engineered Bioweapons?

Harvard Business

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. Amid current outbreaks of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Nipah virus in India , an even scarier threat looms. Last year, researchers recreated an extinct smallpox-like virus with DNA bought online for just $100,000 and published how they did it. Their feat heightens concerns that rogue regimes and terrorists could similarly modify or engineer pathogens and use them as weapons.