Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Have you ever thought to yourself, "I'd love to take the best of my career and turn it into a business?" but got stuck because you didn't know how? After a 20-year career as a leader at Wyndham, Lori Smith decided that she had done all she could for the company she loved. She had created a unique role for herself as an initiative and project integrator that combined her finance background, six-sigma process improvement and project management training, and natural relationship-building skills.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

‘Technological innovation’ has recently become an ossified catch-all term not only in venture capital circles, but in management consultancy as well. Under the deceiving influence of this catchy buzz-word, we tend to underestimate the complications which technological trailblazing entails. Such issues gain increasing relevance in a consulting career, if one decides to take projects with start-ups.

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The Source

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In February 2020, a message in a bottle washed ashore at St Aubin beach in the Channel Islands, 82 years after it had apparently been thrown into the sea. But this wasn’t a story of a bottle that had travelled thousands of miles: The note inside—asking the finder to contact a man in Hertfordshire, England, who’d been holidaying in the region, and written on packaging from a local bakery—had simply returned to where it started.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Flying leg break during a black belt test in 2016. I stood facing a wall of black plastic boards, faintly hearing “U-S-A, U-S-A” chanting from the rest of our team in the stands. I measured the distance from the board with my leg, took a deep breath, and then performed a kick that I had practiced hundreds of times. I do not even think I felt the boards with my foot as my kick sliced clearly through them.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Platforms have rewritten the contract between workers and companies. Here’s how gig workers and creators are starting to push back.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The Problem with Money Talk Human beings have long been conflicted about money. When it comes to our relationships, it’s just something we’d rather not talk about much. But wouldn’t it help you in sales to know how to decrease the negative money emotions of prospects? In complex solution sales , we have to think and talk about money. As a salesperson you propose a solution to a customer problem, for which the customer will pay you.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Leaders: The ball is in your court.

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