David A Fields

OCTOBER 22, 2019

You learned about an 8-week alternative to the traditional, gather-everyone-in-a-room-for-two-days approach to annual planning for your consulting firm. (It was in this article.) Since publishing that piece, consulting firm leaders have lobbed in an array of queries: Is the process iterative? Who should be involved? If we don’t meet for two days, do I still … Continued.

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Alan Weiss

OCTOBER 22, 2019

I’m astonished by how little designers (cars, hotel rooms, appliances, furniture, etc.) consult with their perspective customers before they produce the final product. I’m always asked by consultants what topics to use for a special event, a client conference, or a webinar or video series. Well, start by asking your ideal buyers what they would like to see and hear.

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Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC

OCTOBER 22, 2019

How well do you know your team members? Besides knowing their names and generally what their jobs are, do you have a realistic understanding of their workplace challenges, the projects they’re involved with, their professional goals, and their unique skills weaknesses or areas of expertise? No? I understand. It’s tough enough having time to get your own work done much less worry about your team members’ challenges.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Scott Young, who gained fame for teaching himself the four-year MIT computer science curriculum in just 12 months, says that the type of fast, focused learning he employed is possible for all of us — whether we want to master coding, become fluent in a foreign language, or excel at public speaking. And, in a dynamic, fast-paced business environment that leaves so many of us strapped for time and struggling to keep up, he believes that the ability to quickly develop new knowledge and skills

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The typical performance chart has two axes. And one is time. We can’t do anything at all about time, so there’s really one axis. How fast did your profits grow? How many followers did you add to your account? How much muscle did you add to your calves? The problem with a graph that only has one axis is that it’s dumb. No room for nuance.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Show people how their work impacts others.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 22, 2019

More data isn’t always helpful.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 22, 2019

First understand your patients and their community.

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