Consulting Success

JULY 20, 2018

Michael was recently featured on the How To Lose Money podcast, which you can listen to here: How to Lose Money by Selling a Product That Nobody Wants with Michael Zipursky Any entrepreneur who’s earned success knows that it’s not always fun and games. If you’ve read our articles or listened to our podcasts, you know that I’ve found tremendous success.

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Consultants' Consultant

JULY 20, 2018

Consultants Consultant: The most effective leaders set review dates not just due dates. This allows them to come in early as a coach, not late as a judge. It gives the person doing the work the opportunity to leverage your wisdom. It stops you abdicating rather than delegating. My favourite book on delegating is the One Minute […]. The post Leaders come in early as a coach, not late as a judge appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2018

Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images. Human beings have an astonishing ability to learn, but our motivation to do so tends to decrease with age, particularly in adulthood. As children, we are naturally curious and free to explore the world around us. As adults, we are much more interested in preserving what we learned, to the point of resisting any information — and data — that challenges our views and opinions.

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Consultants' Consultant

JULY 20, 2018

Consultants Consultant: The most effective leaders set review dates not just due dates. This allows them to come in early as a coach, not late as a judge. It gives the person doing the work the opportunity to leverage your wisdom. It stops you abdicating rather than delegating. My favourite book on delegating is the One Minute […]. The post Leaders come in early as a coach, not late as a judge appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2018

Martin Konopka/EyeEm/Getty Images. The use of virtual file-sharing platforms like Dropbox, Google Docs, and others has become ubiquitous in business, academic, and other settings. But is your team using such collaborative platforms as effectively as they could be? Whether working on cancer cures or the latest consumer-tech products, how teams collaborate affects their performance and success.

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2018

Oliver Burston/Getty Images. While overall adoption of artificial intelligence remains low among businesses ( about 20% upon our last study), senior executives know that AI isn’t just hype. Organizations across sectors are looking closely at the technology to see what it can do for their business. As they should—we estimate that 40% of all the potential value that can created by analytics today comes from the AI techniques that fall under the umbrella “ deep learning ,” (

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2018

Jan Stromme/Getty Images. CEOs are known for their confidence. It is, after all, one of the reasons they’ve made it to the top. And yet, that confidence sometimes flags, as we at leadership advisory firm Egon Zehnder learned from a survey of 402 CEOs from 11 countries—executives who together run companies with $2.6 trillion in sales. Participating anonymously, CEOs told us that while they did feel ready for the strategic and business aspects of their roles, they felt much less prepar

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2018

Classen Rafael/EyeEm/Getty Images. Despite good intentions—and widespread acceptance of the importance of innovation—efforts to innovate at large companies often lack a clear mission and framework, and as a result, they go off the rails. At one large European energy company we consulted with, no less than four separate corporate functions were supposed to be working on innovation—yet none of them was supporting critical needs at the business unit level.

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