David A Fields
JUNE 27, 2017
The design of your consulting firm determines your bottom line profit. If you’re a solo consultant, you might think that firm design doesn’t apply to you. You’d be wrong. It applies to you too. Reading articles should be fun, so here’s a tune to hum for the next couple of minutes: Walk Like an Egyptian.
Consulting Success
JUNE 26, 2017
I was about 25,000 feet up and seated on the right side of the DCH-8 plane. Looking out the window below, I could see beautiful turquoise water and the sea speckled with islands. The flight was short. Only 30 minutes to reach my island destination. I was meeting one of my first business mentors. A man named Kyoji, who had grown up on this island but had spent 40+ years travelling around the world building several international brands and businesses.
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Markovitz Consulting
JUNE 26, 2017
I was at a conference for internet retailers two weeks ago and was overwhelmed by the software and hardware solutions promising to solve all their operational problems and turn their ecommerce businesses into a highly profitable, eight figure monsters. They’re lying. Technology is not, by itself, the answer. If you have a broken process and you add technology, all you get is a faster (and more expensive) broken process.
Management Consulted
JUNE 4, 2017
Everybody knows you should dress conservatively for a job interview. A straightforward interview suit is the way to go, and that goes double for a management consulting interview. We won’t assume you’ve been living under a rock and don’t know that navy blue and charcoal gray suits are your interview suit standbys. But there’s so much more to dressing to impress than that.
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Women in Consulting
JUNE 1, 2017
By: Amy Huson. We all need a reality check now and again, and the annual WIC Best Practices Survey is a great place to start. Mark your calendar for Thursday, June 15th when Survey Program Director Jen Berkley Jackson of The Insight Advantage and Deb Siegle of Strategic Marketing Solutions will share this year’s results from your consulting peers. So now is the time to join WIC if you want to know more about things like: Total revenue for 2016.
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David A Fields
JUNE 6, 2017
The good news: you’ve struck up a relationship with the decision-maker at a prospective client. Let’s call her Denise, the corporation’s CUO (Chief Unspecified Officer). The bad news: Denise asks that you chat about the project with Elliot Intheweeds, the SVP of Unspecified Stuff. Elliot is an influencer.
Consulting Success
JUNE 12, 2017
I have never considered the option of failure in anything I’ve done. Whatever I have set my mind to, and really wanted, I have achieved. I remember one day back in university I faced an interesting challenge. I had enrolled in the Asian Studies Program. Unfortunately, many of the required courses were as dry as a camel’s tongue after crossing the Sahara Desert without water.
Strategy+Business
JUNE 11, 2017
If you want to succeed at anything truly difficult, you have to design a learning process that builds on the things you do best. Through experiences such as his training in Olympic speed skating, and in his coaching of and working with others, John Coyle has come to recognize four key rules inherent in designing for your strengths: Accept your weaknesses; recognize your specific strengths; solve the right problem (which is not necessarily the problem other people have diagnosed for you); and, fi
Management Consulted
JUNE 25, 2017
Today, we’re here to talk about a little known path into management consulting – transitioning over to the industry from Teach for America. Many of you have heard of Teach for America, but for those of you haven’t, TfA recruits the best and brightest undergraduate students to teach in low-income school districts for two years after they complete their undergrad studies.
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BCG
JUNE 21, 2017
Article Wednesday, June 21, 2017 Nearly 100 leading European executives gathered in Versailles for BCG’s eighth European Strategy Leadership Summit. Here are eight takeaways from the event.
Actionable
JUNE 29, 2017
Actionable is a completely remote working environment—many of us have never met in person. And yet we know each other on a deeply personal level. The post The Intimacies of Remote Working appeared first on Actionable.co.
Chad Barr
JUNE 28, 2017
For as long as I can remember, I always had a hobby or two that kept me curious, excited, enthusiastic and fulfilled. I remember the fish breeding aquariums in my parents’ home, building amplifiers and various sound systems for playing my electric guitar in my various bands, and I even remember a period of experimenting with macramé hanging plant holders.
MishTalk
JUNE 28, 2017
Yesterday, in response to alleged “progress” on Obamacare I penned Mish’s Rule of Progress. Today, I am pleased to announce even more amazing budget progress in the state of Illinois. (more…).
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Strategy+Business
JUNE 12, 2017
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Management Consulted
JUNE 11, 2017
It’s the question of our time – how far is too far to go back on my consulting resume? We get questions literally Every. Single. Day about consulting resumes, and we’re happy to answer them (you can email us here !). But today, we’re here to answer one specific question: do undergrad clubs/experiences matter on your consulting resume?
Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC
JUNE 20, 2017
The most common question a strategic planning client asks is: “How can we keep this simple?” The question is being asked typically for one of two reasons: 1) They’ve experienced at least one long and painful planning process, or 2) They’ve never actually created an effective plan. So, though they realize there is a need to go through the strategic planning process, they’re lost as to how to do so simply and effectively.
Actionable
JUNE 28, 2017
My conclusion is that it is often the leaders themselves who need the repair job, and who could most benefit from self-reflection. The post Leader Self-Reflection — The Importance of Looking Inward appeared first on Actionable.co.
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Chad Barr
JUNE 21, 2017
Many of my clients are well known authors of insightful books on a variety of topics. Some have published one book while others have published many. Most have recognized the benefits of being a published author so they may share their wisdom with the world, gain credibility and strengthen their global thought leadership. Many struggle with figuring out how to get published quickly, painlessly and successfully.
MishTalk
JUNE 25, 2017
On Friday the ECB Shut Down Venice-based Veneto Banca and Banca Popolare di Vicenza as failed or failing banks. The bailout cost is purportedly €5.2 billion ($5.8 billion), but costs nearly always exceed initial projections. Under the announcement, senior bondholders and depositors will be protected. (more…).
Strategy+Business
JUNE 20, 2017
Strategy&'s 2016 study of chief digital officers (CDOs), which analyzed the presence of such leaders among the world's 2,500 largest public companies, revealed that 19 percent of these companies have now designated an executive to lead their digital agenda. This is up from just 6 percent of companies in the 2015 study. This new class of CDOs often encounter several key obstacles upon assuming their role: ad hoc digital initiatives spread throughout a large organization, lacking central oversight
Clarity Consultants
JUNE 20, 2017
There are so many ways to teach a student in our modern age of learning. From massive online courses to social media peer study groups, we are always surprised and excited to hear about the next big thing in learning and development. What's next on the horizon for forward-thinking companies and learning with technologies? Virtual Reality training may be the learning tool that businesses need to bring their online training to life.
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Case studies are proof of successful client relations and a verifiable product or service. They persuade buyers by highlighting your customers' experiences with your company and its solution. In sales, case studies are crucial pieces of content that can be tailored to prospects' pain points and used throughout the buyer's journey. In marketing, case studies are versatile assets for generating business, providing reusable elements for ad and social media content, website material, and marketing c
MBO Partners
JUNE 21, 2017
Finding a balance between creating your own schedule and completing everything on your to-do list can be challenging as an independent professional. Follow these five tips for effective time management.
Actionable
JUNE 26, 2017
Organizations today need an agile mindset to thrive in the business landscape, which is increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. The post Get Unstuck — Developing an Agile Mindset appeared first on Actionable.co.
Chad Barr
JUNE 14, 2017
Content creation is one of the key essentials to increasing our intellectual property (IP) and credibility while strengthening our thought leadership and global reach. Yet many are stuck in writer’s block mindset and procrastination. During a conversation I had this morning with a client, she shared her quest for advice as to how to best write amazing content.
MishTalk
JUNE 14, 2017
The state of Illinois has not passed a budget for close to three years. Arguably it’s just as well because Illinois budgets for decades have been nothing but a moth-eaten collection of lies, one time deficits repeated endlessly, and financial wizardry statements designed to disguise Illinois’ real problems: failure to rein in spending coupled with a very business unfriendly environment.
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Just because we're working with a distributed team doesn't mean we have to abandon time-tested tools and methods like whiteboarding. Digital look-alikes often cramp creativity and all but eliminate the humanity of shared interactions. Hardware solutions are also limiting and, of course, expensive and immobile. In an increasingly digital and remote-first world, it’s important for us to select tools and processes that allow us to mitigate if not eliminate the above problems.
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