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The Three Vital Signs Your Consulting Firm Should Track

David A Fields

If you love data and can gaze lovingly for hours at a well-crafted spreadsheet, then you may hanker for a vast array of meters to judge the progress of your consulting firm; something like an airplane cockpit. Conversely, if numbers aren’t really your bag then you might prefer the dashboard from the 1962 Morris Minor … Continued. The post The Three Vital Signs Your Consulting Firm Should Track appeared first on David A.

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Craftsmanship, not Kaizen?

Markovitz Consulting

“Everyday improvement, everybody improvement, everywhere improvement.” That was Masaaki Imai’s, ahem, improvement on his earlier English translation of kaizen (which you can see in this video ). Sadly, even though we’ve been preaching from this hymnal for more than 30 years, most organizations have a long way to go before the kaizen spirit is truly woven into its DNA.

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Planning & Evaluating your Recruitment Strategy

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

Amidst the struggle caused by the new virus-initiated turbulence, organizations are compelled to rethink the role of Chief Human Resource Officers (CHROs) and their cruciality at the strategic planning table, especially when it comes to responding to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

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Mastering the Art of Persuasion

Harvard Business

Wharton professor Jonah Berger explains why so many people fail to change others’ minds — and what we can do about it.

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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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An extraordinary book

Seth Godin Blog

Great non-fiction helps us see the unseen, plants and nurtures ideas that matter, and, sometimes, can leave us better than we were. Isabel Wilkerson’s new book Caste does all of those things. It uses language, analogy and history to pull together disparate threads into a coherent, devastating whole. Highly recommended.

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