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How Prophetable is Your Consulting?

Consulting Matters

There's two types of consultants. The ones who are drawn to the profession because of the potential for making great money and the prestige that comes from working with the executives. Then there's the ones who are in it for so much more than money. They also want to make a real difference in our overly stressed workplaces. Both types of consultants want and need to be profitable and deserve equitable compensation for their contribution.

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Becoming A Consulting Celebrity and Building Your Brand with Chris Kneeland: Podcast #70

Consulting Success

Brand attachment is a metric that speaks to the level of emotional buy-in. People don’t just like these brands or these people, they adore them. They have a higher than normal word of mouth or advocacy, and thus tend to spend lower than their competitive set on traditional media. Chris Kneeland’s work aims to understand how to get somebody to pay more and be more loyal while spending less on advertising and discounts.

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How Prophetable is Your Consulting?

Consulting Matters

There's two types of consultants. The ones who are drawn to the profession because of the potential for making great money and the prestige that comes from working with the executives. Then there's the ones who are in it for so much more than money. They also want to make a real difference in our overly stressed workplaces. Both types of consultants want and need to be profitable and deserve equitable compensation for their contribution.

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Aligning Goals with Resources

CaseInterview.com

In a corporate strategic plan, it’s often easy to come up with big goals of what the company could or should do. The far more difficult part is allocating resources (people, finances, attention span) because there are never enough resources to do everything you could do. The same is true in your personal life and career plans. Here’s a simple example.

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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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Is there a place for standardizing processes in art?

Consulthon

Nowadays I think everyone agrees that standardizing processes is a good thing in every industry. What about artworks? Making a masterpiece is a process too, right? Having good organizational habits.

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The Best Leaders Aren’t Afraid to Ask for Help

Harvard Business

Acknowledging your weaknesses can be a show of strength.

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Justice is scarce

Seth Godin Blog

It always is. That’s its natural state. Never enough opportunity, fairness and connection. Never enough time for a student who needs it, or dignity for a person who deserves it. A chance to be seen and understood. But just because we’re always running short doesn’t mean we can’t try. There’s always a chance to contribute and the opportunity to speak up.

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What to Do When a Work Friendship Becomes Emotionally Draining

Harvard Business

Establish boundaries without hurting your colleague’s feelings.

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Three Lessons in Building Customer Trust

1 to 1

The value of trust helps people choose who they associate and confide with on a daily basis. But what happens when a company is dishonest with their customers or acts unethically? This year, data breaches, information misuse, and scandal have plagued some of the biggest businesses in the U.S. And the results have been devastating. Accenture Strategy’s Competitive Agility Index reported that 54 percent of the companies surveyed experienced a decrease in customer trust, causing a conservative.

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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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Why Companies’ Attempts to Close the Gender Pay Gap Often Fail

Harvard Business

And what to try instead.

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Bananas, Passion, and Priorities

Martinka Consulting

Why my dog’s love of bananas is an indicator for doing well in business. The post Bananas, Passion, and Priorities appeared first on Martinka Consulting.

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The Perils of Internal Disruption (Part 3)

Markovitz Consulting

“Disruption” has become another business buzzword that obviates the need for prudent, careful thought and consideration. If something is “disruptive,” then it must by definition be good. But when it comes to internal operations at least, disruption is often both bad for business and for employees, because it causes unevenness in work. Last week , I wrote about how sales incentives cause salespeople to stuff the company’s distribution channels with inventory far in excess of consumer demand.

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