Consulting Success
OCTOBER 4, 2018
Michael was recently featured on Quit Bleeping Around Podcast. You can listen to it here: Taking Action with Michael Zipursky When I think about the most successful consultants, I think of consultants who don’t fear taking action. Elite consultants spend more time learning — and even more time taking action. To reach your full potential, you must go beyond your fear.
Henry DeVries
OCTOBER 4, 2018
October is a baseball fan’s favorite time of the year, but let’s admit it: attendance is down, the season is too long, and not enough teams make the playoffs. The time has come to fix the Major League Baseball playoffs, and by that I mean fix Major League Baseball.
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Strategy+Business
OCTOBER 4, 2018
Leaders who can't or don't adapt to "unthinkable" scenarios are finding their business models challenged and even shredded. Companies and organizations that have experimented with radical options for adaptive problem solving can develop a purpose that the next generation can buy into.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 4, 2018
STR/Stringer/Getty Images. When a manufacturing line in a factory is running efficiently, one can see lines of robotic arms working synchronously, conveyor belts moving smoothly, and goods being produced. Unfortunately, when it comes to knowledge work, it’s much tougher to get an understanding of how much a team of people is producing. There comes a point in every organization when if you want to keep growing, you simply have to hire more people.
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Martinka Consulting
OCTOBER 4, 2018
This post was originally written for the blog on www.ibainc.com, a Bellevue, WA business brokerage firm. The seller nicknamed the buyer “Columbo” after the TV detective who had a habit of, when leaving the room, always saying, “One more question.” To this buyer, questions were his security blanket and as long as there was another question (and there can always be another question) he didn’t have to make a commitment.
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MBO Partners
OCTOBER 4, 2018
Five tips for leveraging and engaging top independent talent for your business.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 4, 2018
Mike Stobe/Getty Images. It’s a well-known phenomenon: emotions are contagious. If you work with people who are happy and optimistic, you’re more likely to feel the same. The flipside is true, too; if your colleagues are constantly stressed out, you’re more likely to suffer. How do you avoid secondhand stress? Can you distance yourself from your coworkers’ emotions without ostracizing them?
Seth Godin Blog
OCTOBER 4, 2018
If you want a process to go faster, it's tempting to focus on the straightaways. Get your delivery drivers to go faster on the highway. Get your development team to take fewer breaks during a sprint. Push for everyone to get out of the way of the moving object. Faster processors! Actually, you'll get far more productivity if you focus on your loading and unloading instead.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 4, 2018
How does working remotely complicate your career? In this episode of HBR’s advice podcast, Dear HBR: , cohosts Alison Beard and Dan McGinn answer your questions with the help of Siobhan O’Mahony, a professor at Boston University Questrom School of Business. They talk through how to advance in your job when you’re not in the building, deal with a problematic colleague you never see, and manage teams in other offices.
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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
1 to 1
OCTOBER 4, 2018
It’s hard to create seamless interactions without truly understanding what customers are going through. How can companies make data collection and customer feedback frictionless? Mike Soylu and Nazli Chamlibel of customer feedback firm Pisano share their insights from the field. Listen to all episodes of The CX Pod at TTEC. .
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 4, 2018
ANTTI AIMO KOIVISTO/Getty Images. I’ve long been both paranoid and optimistic about the promise and potential of artificial intelligence to disrupt — well, almost everything. Last year, I was struck by how fast machine learning was developing and I was concerned that both Nokia and I had been a little slow on the uptake. What could I do to educate myself and help the company along?
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 4, 2018
STOCK4B-RF/Getty Images. Being a good doctor is a lot like being a good mentor. Just as clinicians have an ethical duty to act in the best interest of their patients, mentors have a similar duty towards their mentees. In our clinical and academic lives (where we’ve treated countless patients and mentored hundreds of doctors-in-training) we strive to do both as well as we can.
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