Markovitz Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

I’m leading a one-day discussion for a group of companies in Denmark later this month, and in preparation I surveyed them about the state of their lean efforts. It seems that most of them are struggling to bring lean to the office/admin areas, even when they’ve made good progress in their manufacturing areas. I’ve seen this pattern at most of my clients, and at the companies I meet at various lean conferences.

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Tsavo Neal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

What makes your expertise valuable to your clients and target market? How can you effectively market and sell your expertise? Which ways can you position your expertise to create more value for both you and your clients? These questions are critical to independent consultants and small firms — whose product is their expertise. Independent consultants and small firms are at the center of the small overlap between entrepreneurs and experts.

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Women in Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Improving Productivity Feels GREAT. :: Did you know that achieving more productivity is pretty simple? So explained Josh Zerkel, Director of Global Community, Channels and Training at Evernote, and Productivity Consultant, and Certified Professional Organizer® at the recent WIC General Meeting. Here are his four steps to improve your productivity: Step 1 – Write down your task.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Guillermo Barba shares his post on a debate in the Mexican Congress to monetize the ‘Libertad’ silver ounce coin. The original article is in Spanish. What follows below is Barba’s post in English, as it appeared on Hugo Salinas Price’s Plata website. (more…).

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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Difficult tasks have a road map. With effort, we can get from here to there. It might surprise you to realize that difficult is easy once you have the resources and commitment. Paving a road is difficult, so is customer service and fixing software bugs. But impossible and unlikely are where we get hung up. On Tuesday, Apple launched a thousand dollar phone.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Keys to Engaging Employees. Lots of leaders and managers talk a good game when the subject of improving employee engagement comes up, but how many are really serious about putting in the time and effort to make sure it happens? The Definition of Employee Engagement. Simply put, engaged employees advocate for their company, give more discretionary effort and intend to stay at the company.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The Econoday parrot is singing a happy tune today as the CPI beat expectations for the first time in six months. The parrot is always in favor of consumers getting less for their money. (more…).

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Annie McKee, a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of the book How to Be Happy at Work, tells the story of her journey to happiness—starting with her early job as a caregiver for an elderly couple. Even in later, higher-paying work, McKee saw that pursuing prestige and success for the wrong reasons ruined people’s personal and professional lives.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The BLS Real Earnings Report for August shows your average earnings decreased 0.3% for the month due to a rise in the CPI coupled with no wage gains. Those who cheer declining purchasing power (notably Econoday), have even more good news to cheer about. Thanks to a 0.3% decline in the workweek, the average person is effectively taking home 0.6% less in August than July.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Politics is a dirty word. But office politics are unavoidable; as Aristotle noted, “man is by nature a political animal.” Whether you participate in them or not, politics have a big influence on what happens to you, your projects, and your team, so it’s hard to be indifferent to them. To borrow from the political scientist, Harold Laswell , office politics can be understood as the unwritten rules that determine who gets what, when, and how — a promotion, a budget for a pr

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

In a Daily Mail interview, Jim Rickards says the next financial crisis is eight months away, will be BIGGER than the last and triggered by war with North Korea. “It is inevitable, it will hit us in the next six to eight months,” claims Rickards. (more…).

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Most companies pay salespeople a combination of a salary, a commission, and a bonus for hitting a quota, putting a portion of their pay at risk. The belief is that at-risk pay motivates salespeople to work hard and direct effort towards sales activities that encourage achievement of sales goals. In reality, however, many of the commissions and bonuses companies pay salespeople aren’t truly at risk–and as a result, the company may be spending money in ways that produce little in the w

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The Econoday parrot is singing a happy tune today as the CPI beat expectations for the first time in six months. The parrot is always in favor of consumers getting less for their money.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Finally: You’ve got the chance to work remotely. Maybe it’s due to the structure of your new job, or organization; maybe it’s part of that new corporate work/life initiative; or maybe it’s the result of months of lobbying the higher-ups. Regardless, you’ve won the prize that many — or most — working parents dream of.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

In a Daily Mail interview, Jim Rickards says the next financial crisis is eight months away, will be BIGGER than the last and triggered by war with North Korea. “It is inevitable, it will hit us in the next six to eight months,” claims Rickards.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Photo by Annie Spratt. The weather affects consumers’ behavior in terms of what products they buy, where they buy them, and in what quantity. Even if a business knows how normal weather affects its earnings, unexpected abnormal weather events present their own risks. Research shows that abnormal weather disrupts the operating and financial performance of 70% of businesses worldwide.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The BLS Real Earnings Report for August shows your average earnings decreased 0.3% for the month due to a rise in the CPI coupled with no wage gains. Those who cheer declining purchasing power (notably Econoday), have even more good news to cheer about. Thanks to a 0.3% decline in the workweek, the average person is effectively taking home 0.6% less in August than July.

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Henman Performance Executive

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

In 1974, Mel Brooks directed the blockbuster comedy, Young Frankenstein. In the movie, Dr. Frederick Frankenstein learns he has inherited his infamous grandfather’s estate in Transylvania, along with his manuals and lab notes. After initially resisting any connection to his grandfather, Frederick becomes fascinated by the idea of creating his own monster after he discovers […].

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Over the past months or so I accumulated a number of articles regarding Bitcoin and ICO (initial Coin Offerings) myths and hype. Let’s also take a look at what I consider to be fatal flaws, one I have not seen discussed yet in articles, but the idea is easily understood.

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MBO Partners

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Ten self-employed tax deductions you may be entitled to as an independent consultant.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Guillermo Barba shares his post on a debate in the Mexican Congress to monetize the ‘Libertad’ silver ounce coin. The original article is in Spanish. What follows below is Barba’s post in English, as it appeared on Hugo Salinas Price’s Plata website.

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This White Paper targets opportunities for Management to develop proficiency in the Decision Framing and Analyses element of input to Decision, & Risk Analyses for Major Project Funding Decisions.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Transforming a school is a long, hard, and often lonely task. Some people want change, others don’t, and some simply aren’t prepared to wait for results to show. As a school leader sets off on this journey, how do they know what to do, when to do it, who to listen to, and how to manage critics along the way? Our study of the actions and impact of 411 leaders of UK academies found that only 62 of them managed their turnaround successfully and sustainably transformed their school.

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