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How Ed Sheeran Will Make You a Wealthier Consultant

David A Fields

Music superstar Ed Sheeran is going to make you money. Well, indirectly. Okay, he’s not actually going to make you money, but there’s a connection between Red Ed and your consulting firm’s fortunes. Channel your inner Ed Sheeran: hum catchy tunes, look soulful, and grow something scruffy.

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If You Can't Save 1/10 of a Second, You Can't Save 1 Second

Markovitz Consulting

I’m back from joining Honsha on their semi-annual Executive Development Mission to Japan. It was a remarkable learning experience — although I’ve been on two other study trips to Japan, there’s always something new to see and understand when you visit a company that has adopted (and adapted) the Toyota Production System. The president of one company we visited said something that really resonated with me: “If you can’t save 1/10 of a second, you won’t be able to save 1 second.

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Promoting yourself

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: Promoting yourself is one of the hardest jobs in the planet (almost as hard as re-writing your CV). You want people to know who you are. You’ve heard the old proverb it’s not who you are, it’s who you know but even so you feel a little dirty when you self-promote. This morning as I was […]. The post Promoting yourself appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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Are You Listening?

Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC

It doesn’t take much for a leader to show she cares for her team. My company is wrapping up a ‘listening’ and training tour for one of our clients. The new CEO asked us to provide leadership training to help her managers and supervisors enhance their own and their teams’ performance and outline a list of feasible solutions she could move forward to help them, help their teams, and help their customers.

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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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How Lilly Is Getting More Women into Leadership Positions

Harvard Business

Jenner Image/Getty Images. Much has been written about the troubling lack of women in leadership roles generally and in health care in particular. At Lilly, we have tackled this problem head-on. Our approaches, we think, can be helpful to other companies working to address this imbalance. In 2015, we conducted a workforce analysis that revealed a significant shortage of women in leadership at our company.

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When Men Mentor Women

Harvard Business

David Smith, associate professor of sociology at the U.S. Naval War College, and Brad Johnson, professor of psychology at the United States Naval Academy, argue that it is vital for more men to mentor women in the workplace. In the post-#MeToo world, some men have shied away from cross-gender relationships at work. But Smith and Johnson say these relationships offer big gains to mentees, mentors, and organizations.

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Lottery math is human math

Seth Godin Blog

It’s irrational to buy a lottery ticket. And yet, millions do, even more when the prize is huge. The odds of winning the $1.6 billion MegaMillions lottery are vanishingly small. You’re 400 times more likely to be hit by lightning. The benefit of a winning a huge lottery prize is not that different, in terms of how it will effect your life, than winning a more ordinary large prize.

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Banish These Words from the Business Lexicon

Strategy+Business

To be a more agile leader, nurture the habits that accelerate your learning capacity and be aware of the ones that block new experiences. For more insight, see "Leaders: Break Through Your Learning Blockers.

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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business

Jetta Productions/Getty Images. Many U.S. firms have long had a simple mantra: “Invent here, manufacture there.” But, increasingly, those same companies are now choosing to invent as well as manufacture abroad. From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. has lost what Harvard Business School’s Willy Shih calls the “ industrial commons ”: indispensable prod

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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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Strategies For Building Sustained Trust From The World’s Leading Airlines

Melissa Agnes

These leading airlines showcase the power of focusing on the details of experience. You can also listen to this episode on iTunes , Spotify , Stitcher , and YouTube. Shashank Nigam, author of Soar and CEO of Simpliflying, joins the Invincible Brand Podcast to share some powerful strategies on how today’s leading airlines have managed to build sustainable trust – and how that serves them when undesirable incidents risk occurring.

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Your Data Literacy Depends on Understanding the Types of Data and How They’re Captured

Harvard Business

Marco Guidi/EyeEm/Getty Images. The ability to understand and communicate about data is an increasingly important skill for the 21st-century citizen, for three reasons. First, data science and AI are affecting many industries globally, from healthcare and government to agriculture and finance. Second, much of the news is reported through the lenses of data and predictive models.

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Why Privacy Regulations Don’t Always Do What They’re Meant To

Harvard Business

Maartje Van Caspel/EyeEm/Getty Images. First, California passed major privacy legislation in June. Then in late September, the Trump administration published official principles for a single national privacy standard. Not to be left out, House Democrats previewed their own Internet “Bill of Rights” earlier this month. Sweeping privacy regulations, in short, are likely coming to the United States.

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