Tue.Apr 02, 2019

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The Perfect, Post-Project Checklist for Your Consulting Firm

David A Fields

You want your consulting firm to continuously improve and grow. The door to improvement and growth opens when you reflect on an experience, not simply from living through the event. Ergo, reflecting on every project will help your consulting firm thrive. But what, specifically, should you evaluate? Or, as sophisticated, technical consultants are trained to … Continued.

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Product Roles, Part 1: Product Managers, Product Owners, Business Analysts

Johanna Rothman

We have many words for people who shepherd the business value of a product. The many words aren't a problem, as long as we can all agree on what these various people are and they take responsibility for. When we don't agree, we run the risk of not managing our strategy, not thinking in terms of problems, and not managing our tactics. Here's how I think of the various agile product roles: product managers, product owners, and business analysts.

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Alison Gill, Founder and Board Director, Bvalco Ltd

The Source

It’s not every day you get to speak to threetime Olympic rower Ali Gill about her career in. consulting. Admittedly, it was difficult to keep the line of questioning from slipping into Olympic-themed territory (something that “derails most conversations”, a slightly bemused Gill tells us); however, it soon became clear that these two chapters of Gill’s life are not completely separable, because to understand what’s driven her in business one needs to understand the impact that being an elite ath

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The Right Way to Get Your First 1,000 Customers

Harvard Business

Thales Teixeira, associate professor at Harvard Business School, believes many startups fail precisely because they try to emulate successful disruptive businesses. He says by focusing too early on technology and scale, entrepreneurs lose out on the learning that comes from serving initial customers with an imperfect product. He shares how Airbnb, Uber, Etsy, and Netflix approached their first 1,000 customers very differently, helping to explain why they have millions of customers today.

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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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How to Decrease Organizational Complexity

LSA Global

Decrease Organizational Complexity. Overly complex processes, procedures, and systems hamper organizational effectiveness and decrease employee engagement. To improve business performance and retain top talent, it is critical to make it easier to get the right work done in the right way. Unfortunately, a large number of companies waste time on simplifying complexities that are not the real culprits of making it difficult to get work dome in a way that makes sense.

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Next to the competition

Seth Godin Blog

Books sell better in bookstores than they sell in butcher shops. In a bookstore, surrounded by all the competition, a book is in the right place to be seen, compared and ultimately purchased and read. Trade show booths work when they’re in close proximity to the other options a buyer has. Building your trade show booth across town might insulate you from the other choices, but it does little to help establish where you belong and whether or not you’re a smart choice.

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How to Take Criticism Well

Harvard Business

Give yourself time to process it.

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Companies Need to Prepare for the Next Economic Downturn

Harvard Business

Whenever it happens, it won’t look like 2008.

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5 Reasons Executives Wait Too Long to Fire Their Direct Reports

Harvard Business

Once you make the tough call, don’t delay.

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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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How Does Your Organization’s Digital Maturity Compare to Others? - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DELOITTE

Harvard Business

10 questions to assess your company’s digital strength.