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The Opposite Of Selling: Consulting Secrets For Engaging Buyers With Bob Urichuk: Podcast #45

Consulting Success

What’s the most productive time of your day? What would happen if you dedicated one hour of your most productive time to the most important person in the world every day? This is part of Bob Urichuk’s daily routine, and it has resulted in positive improvements to his business. He would visualize, doing anything to help him get where he wants to go at seven o’clock.

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What Not to Do When You’re Trying to Motivate Your Team

Harvard Business

H.Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images. When I speak to large groups about leadership, one question I often ask is, “How many of you have ever received a compliment from your boss that actually offended you?” Without exception, more than two-thirds of the people in the room raise their hands. When I probe further on what people found offensive about their boss’s praise, the most common responses I hear are “It wasn’t sincere” and “They didn’

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The Opposite Of Selling: Consulting Secrets For Engaging Buyers With Bob Urichuck: Podcast #45

Consulting Success

What’s the most productive time of your day? What would happen if you dedicated one hour of your most productive time to the most important person in the world every day? This is part of Bob Urichuck’s daily routine, and it has resulted in positive improvements to his business. He would visualize, doing anything to help him get where he wants to go at seven o’clock.

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How to Get Beyond Paralysis by Analysis

The Fearless Marketer

My internal dialog started in 2008 when I decided to write another book to help me market my services. Here’s what my mind used to say: “Yeah, that’s a great idea for my second book! Let me think about it for awhile.” Then a day or two later, “No, that idea stinks, gotta find a better idea.”. This somewhat agonizing thought process repeated itself for more than five years.

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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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Make Your Company's Culture Go Viral

Strategy+Business

How to spread the critical few behaviors that drive strategy forward. See also "How Can You Make Your Company's Culture Go Viral?

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We’re still clueless about lifetime value

Seth Godin Blog

If an Apple upgrade breaks your phone and you switch to Android, it costs Apple more than $10,000. If you switch supermarkets because a clerk was snide with you, it removes $50,000 from the store’s ongoing revenue. If a kid has a lousy first grade teacher or is bullied throughout middle school, it might decrease his productivity for the rest of us by a million dollars.

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How Can You Make Your Company's Culture Go Viral?

Strategy+Business

By carefully selecting the change-driving behaviors that are right for your organization, and the mechanisms to spread them, you can drive cultural evolution. For further insights, read "Make Your Company's Culture Go Viral.

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How to Write a Scope of Work (SOW)

MBO Partners

A SOW details how you plan to execute a project from start to finish. Here are six common components that should be included in your next SOW.

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The Key to Preventing Generational Tension Is Remembering that Everyone Wants to Feel Valued

Harvard Business

Martin Barraud/Getty Images. I remember the first time I felt old as a manager — more than 10 years ago now. It was at a lunch with my new team, when I mentioned the first “45” I bought with my own money as a kid. One of my direct reports, who was 10 years younger than me, looked at me blank faced and asked, “What is a 45?” She had never seen the single-song vinyl record format.

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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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Why Women Volunteer for Tasks That Don’t Lead to Promotions

Harvard Business

Helen King/Getty Images. Here’s a work scenario many of us know too well: You are in a meeting and your manager brings up a project that needs to be assigned. It’s not particularly challenging work, but it’s time-consuming, unlikely to drive revenue, and probably won’t be recognized or included in your performance evaluation.

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