Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Having a successful career in consulting requires sustained motivation. When your skills are a good match for the requirements of the industry, your superior performance will be an ongoing source of encouragement. A sensible first step towards a consulting-career would be to understand whether you have what it takes to excel in consulting. Here is a list of six skills that will make a difference in your consulting career and ensure your long-term success. 1.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2017

flashpop/Getty Images. Alan Kay, the educator and computer designer, famously declared , “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” But what does it take to invent the future in such a turbulent and uncertain world? How do successful organizations build on their history, even as they craft a new point of view about what comes next?

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Strategy+Business

DECEMBER 18, 2017

New surveys reveal a lack of confidence in cybersecurity, and how companies can respond.

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Seth Godin Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Culture moves in two ways. Open and closed. If you're a teacher, in business, a politician, a parent, a leader, an oligarch, a media mogul, an oil baron, a salesperson or a marketer, you need to make a choice, a choice that will alter how you work with others and the investments you make in our culture and your craft: Do you benefit from a population that's smarter, faster and more connected than it used to be?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Vince Streano/Getty Images. Corporations often approach ethics as an individual problem, designing oversight systems to identify the “bad apples” before they can turn the organization into a “rotten barrel.” But at places like Wells Fargo , FIFA , and Volkswagen , we can’t fully describe what happened by reading profiles of John Stumpf, Sepp Blatter, or Martin Winterkorn.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Malte Mueller/Getty Images. Men and women don’t look at office politics and power dynamics the same way. That’s what my consulting partners and I recently found when we surveyed 134 senior executives in large organizations and conducted follow-up interviews with 44 of them. There’s no right or wrong here, but the discrepancies help explain why women assert themselves differently.

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MBO Partners

DECEMBER 18, 2017

A performance review can give your independent consultancy the best opportunity to succeed; here’s how to do it.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Paul Taylor/Getty Images. Cybersecurity can cause organizational migraines. In 2016, breaches cost businesses nearly $4 billion and exposed an average of 24,000 records per incident. In 2017, the number of breaches is anticipated to rise by 36%. The constant drumbeat of threats and attacks is becoming so mainstream that businesses are expected to invest more than $93 billion in cyber defenses by 2018.

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Consulting Success

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Transform your failures into success in no time by implementing sales systems that will work for you. Description: Bob Burg is a sought-after speaker at company leadership and sales conferences around the world. He has shared the platform with everyone from seasoned business leaders and broadcast personalities to a former U.S. president. He is the author of numerous books, and the best-seller that he is best known for is The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea , which he co-a

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Paul Taylor/Getty Images. Everywhere today the news confronts us with deeply held fears of AI and automation. Coverage often focuses on the job loss and social unrest that are viewed as likely to follow. These fears aren’t unfounded: managers across industries have cost targets and technology enables lower-value tasks to move from people to machines.

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Martinka Consulting

DECEMBER 18, 2017

On Halloween I asked: What’s scary to you? Only you can answer it but we’re not talking about eating too much candy tonight, ISIS, North Korea, Trump, Hillary, or anything similar. What’s scary to a lot a people? Business buyers : It’s the leap of faith they need to take to be in business. It’s understandable because business ownership is not for everybody.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In the age before the digital revolution, marketers used to tell customers about a product and then work through a traditional step-by-step purchase funnel. But today, there’s nothing linear or traditional about the way businesses and their brands can explode in scale overnight—sometimes before the product even makes it into the hands of customers.

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