Fri.May 06, 2022

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How To Write Your Consulting Firm Mission Statement (& Why It’s Important)

Consulting Success

What’s your consulting firm’s mission statement? Mission statements for consulting businesses are notoriously difficult to write. In a few sentences, you must summarize why your business exists and the changes you want to make in the world. Many consultants procrastinate when it comes to writing their mission statement. They claim they’ll “do it eventually,” but.

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7 Miserable Mistakes Managers Make

Rick Conlow

Managers have many things in common – and some of those “things” happen to be the miserable mistakes they make. This list does not cover every mistake, but it tackles seven that will readily inhibit or derail a career. Above all, they sabotage employee performance, engagement, and retention. 4 Miserable Mistakes. Relying on the position to give you power.

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Alternatives to a Traditional Summer Internship

Tom Spencer

As an underclassman eager to gain professional experience, you may be curious where to begin. There are plenty of ways to gain experiential learning opportunities as a freshman and sophomore. Although these are not “traditional” business internships, these experiences can teach professional and leadership skills, and educate you about certain industries.

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?The Role of Confidence in Consulting

Women in Consulting

By: Kathryn Gorges. Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself. –Cicero. Confidence plays an interesting role in consulting. Our customers need to have confidence in us as consultants. We need to have confidence in our ability to make a positive difference in solving our customers’ problems.

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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 Algorithms Could Improve Primary Care

Harvard Business

Done well, automation can maximize the quality of health care and enhance operational efficiency.

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Are Customers Lying to Your Chatbot?

Harvard Business

Research finds that people are more than twice as likely to lie when interacting with a digital system than when talking to a human.

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Toxic High Performers – Why You Need to Act

LSA Global

The Cost of Toxic High Performers To the tune of almost $50 billion per year in the U.S. according to recent SHRM research, toxic high performers are costly. Though there may seem to be a payoff in the short term with your high performer winning big deals or delivering key project results, the long term impact of the poison they inject into your company culture is too high a price to pay.

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Accenture CEO Julie Sweet on the Most Important Skill Job Seekers Need Today

Harvard Business

If you interview at Accenture, there’s one question you must be able to answer.

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Most transformation initiatives fail. Here’s how to make yours successful.

Brimstone Consulting

When organizations get people and alignment right, their transformation efforts are more likely to succeed. Just 26% of organizational transformation initiatives succeed. There are many reasons why most transformation efforts fail including a lack of vision, strategy, and/or sense of urgency, declaring victory too soon, not anchoring the transformation within the culture, and not giving people the tools, resources, and autonomy necessary to implement the changes needed for transformation.

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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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Preparing to Tell Your Boss “I Quit”

Harvard Business

Approach the conversation with a plan for their reaction — whatever it may be.

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Half baked

Seth Godin Blog

If you care about a creative practice, my guess is that you’ve already seen Peter Jackson’s new Beatles movie. If not, go check it out. It’s a miracle that the movie exists at all. I mean, four of the most famous creative humans who ever lived, tenuously holding on to a fracturing association, agree to write and record an album in three weeks and record every single interaction on film.

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