Consulting Success

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Are you ready to scale and grow your consulting business? You’ve got a steady stream of projects. You’re well known in your industry. You may even be thinking about hiring someone to work with you. This is a time when many consultants feel like they are starting to hit a wall (or maybe you’re already smacked your head against it and are feeling a dizzying pain).

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Alan Copson/Getty Images. Employees around the world are reporting that big organizational changes are affecting their jobs. From leadership transitions and restructurings, to mergers and acquisitions, to regulatory changes, there seems to be constant unrest in the workforce. But according to one survey of more than half a million U.S. employees, almost one-third don’t understand why these changes are happening.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Leading Change. It seems that change is inevitable. What can you do as a leader to minimize the negative disruption change can cause to your organization and your teams? It all starts with the essentials for leading change successfully. Leading Change versus Managing Change. In our experience of nearly three decades leading change projects in the field, we have observed that organizations are generally better at the tactical and operational side of change compared to the strategic and people s

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Anadolu Agency/Getty Images. Maintaining strong, productive relationships with clients and co-workers can be challenging when you never see the person you’re working with. Yet, it is common to have ongoing work relationships – sometimes lasting years — with people you’ve never met in person. We often think of “virtual work” as working with someone located outside an office, or in another city or country.

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Road 1: I can learn from you and make things better. Road 2: You’re an important customer and I can bring empathy and care to this moment to strengthen our relationship. Road 3: I can teach you something and make things better. Road 4: Go away. Now it begins to make sense. For example, if you call Hyatt’s 800 number, they’ll tell you that they’re not actually in contact with management.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Scott Barbour/Getty Images. With today’s high demand for data scientists and the high salaries that they command, it’s often not practical for companies to keep them on staff. Instead, many organizations work to ramp up their existing staff’s analytics skills, including predictive analytics. But organizations need to proceed with caution.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Hero Images/Getty Images. In 2015, CareMore embarked on a journey to transform care delivery in Medicaid with the aim of leveraging its 20-year history in providing comprehensive care for seniors under Medicare. To many at the time, we were fools. Critics outside of CareMore issued an ugly forecast: Our resource-intensive approach to care would never survive on Medicaid’s meager reimbursement levels.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Apple recently announced a new feature to the Apple Watch: the latest version will be able to measure heart rhythms and notify patients about abnormal, and potentially harmful, patterns. Doctors, however, are skeptical. Their biggest concern is that the feature hasn’t been rigorously tested and could provide unreliable data, creating a false sense of risk among users and leading patients to ask for unnecessary tests.

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