July, 2014

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Emergence of Formal Behavioral Insights Teams and Initiatives

Steve Shu Consulting

'I recently ran into a short video by the New South Wales government which does a great job of introducing the notion of behavioral insights and application in the governmental space. Although still early, behavioral insights and the application of behavioral economics principles have been going global in the public policy space. At some point in the future we will see a wave build in the private sector – the value proposition for getting smart about behavioral science is compelling.

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4 Steps to Getting Published in Magazines

David A Fields

'A question I was asked: How do I go about getting my articles published in high-circulation magazines? What would your suggestion be to this consultant? What has worked for you? Post your suggestions below. (I’ll post what I told him in a couple of days.). The post 4 Steps to Getting Published in Magazines appeared first on David A. Fields. Consultants Context Discussion Creating Value Fees Positioning Proposals Relationships writing adding value agreements Connections positioning.

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Acceptance

Tom Spencer

'Making the most of right now. ANGER and hatred result from clinging to past experiences. By refusing to accept things you cannot change, you lose your peace of mind, waste mental energy, and remain trapped by events which didn’t kill you yet leave you permanently diminished. Better to let the bad stuff go. Ambition and anxiety result from restlessly anticipating the future.

Energy 98
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TCIP #005 – Teaching Crisis Communication in Higher Education with Karen Freberg

Melissa Agnes

'Welcome to episode #005 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and Karen Freberg. Dr. Karen Freberg is paving the way for professors and students alike. She’s an engaging professor at the University of Louisville, in Kentucky, who teaches and researches on subjects like social media for PR and crisis communication – and she’s about to take this semester’s crisis communications grad class to a whole new level.

Education 106
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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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Putting Your Inner Team to Work

Women in Consulting

'By: Anne Janzer. Consultants and solopreneurs are, by nature, pretty self-sufficient people. But we don’t always call on all of our resources when we need them. When faced with tough decisions, new opportunities or potential conflict, we often fall back on behavior patterns that can limit our success. This is the topic of Erica Ariel Fox’s Winning from Within: A Breakthrough Method for Leading, Living and Lasting Change.

Course 101

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Does Your Company Keep Its Promises?

Strategy+Business

'Under the pressure of a quota, target, or deadline, or amid the turmoil of constant change, many companies break critical promises made to their employees, customers, investors, and communities. To avoid this "commitment drift" and the chain reaction it can trigger, business leaders must sidestep some common pitfalls.

Company 75
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More Clients and More Free Time – the Old School Way

David A Fields

'Let’s go old school. There’s a choice consultants make every day, and I am convinced that consultants who choose correctly will experience huge gains in their productivity and business-development efforts. Before I reveal the details of this game-changing choice, let me quickly review the problems it addresses. (I could reveal the surprise immediately, but then you’d mutter something like, “I already knew I should choose the blue pill.

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Persistence

Tom Spencer

'The night is darkest before the dawn. Keep moving. You’re closer than you think. “You will make mistakes. Are you going to be able to get up off the ground when you get smacked down, and keep driving. Persistence and resilience are very important, and there are going to be very difficult trade-offs to make, fundamental trade-offs in terms of how you’re running your business, and you’re going to have to make them very quickly without all of the data.” ~ Dominic Bart

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“Social Media Crisis” and Other Buzzwords that Need to Go

Melissa Agnes

'Buzzwords are those over-used words or terms that are used so often that they begin to lose all meaning. I recently did a guest lecture for Professor Eric Chandler ‘s NYU class and, prior to the guest lecture, Eric and I got to talking about the different buzzwords that get under our skin. I thought it would make a fun post to share these buzzwords with you and explain why it is that they just mean absolutely nothing to us!

Media 101
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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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Risk Averse or Change Averse?

Women in Consulting

'By: Kevin B Kreitman. The riskiest action in a changing environment is Business as Usual. So why do managers repeatedly shy away from change—real, thoughtful, productive change— as they watch their markets erode? The most likely source of change resistance is in the normal brain. Your instincts are wired not to take you into the unknown or unfamiliar.

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No BBC Video Removal Scandal After All; Evidence of Military Planes Shadowing MH17 Mounts

MishTalk

'On July 23 the BBC deleted a video report from correspondent Olga Ivishina regarding the crash of MH17. This has caused quite a stir in the blogosphere because the deleted video contained eyewitness reports of military aircraft flying on the same day, shadowing Mh17. Here is the deleted video from cache: ?????????? ????? MH17 ?? ?? ?? ? ??????? ????

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Using Social Media for Your Company's Good

Strategy+Business

'Employees who feel their managers listen to their complaints are more likely to use social media to benefit their company than to air their grievances.

Media 73
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More Clients and More Free Time – the Old School Way

David A Fields

'Let’s go old school. There’s a choice consultants make every day, and I am convinced that consultants who choose correctly will experience huge gains in their productivity and business-development efforts. Before I reveal the details of this game-changing choice, let me quickly review the problems it addresses. (I could reveal the surprise immediately, but then you’d mutter something like, “I already knew I should choose the blue pill.

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Savings Consultants Are Needed in Today's Market More Than Ever

Savings Consultants are needed in today’s market more than ever. With an increase in expenses, businesses are looking for opportunities to save. Often unknown to businesses are savings in expense reduction, specialized tax savings, specialized savings including medical underpayments, health benefits cost reduction, zero cost processing, and more. Blue Coast Savings, with over 20 years in business, assists Savings Consultants in helping these companies move toward more profitable businesses.

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Experience Curve

Tom Spencer

'The Experience Curve captures the relationship between increasing production experience and declining costs. (Source: Flickr ). Background. The Learning Curve, the concept which predates the Experience Curve, was first described by German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus in 1885 as part of his studies into human memory. In 1936, T.P. Wright described the effect of learning on production costs in the aircraft industry showing that required labour time dropped by 10 to 15 percent with every doubli

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TCIP #007 – Overcoming Legal Challenges in Crisis Communication with Sara Hawkins

Melissa Agnes

'Welcome to episode #007 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and Sara Hawkins. Sara Hawkins is a savvy attorney dedicated to helping the “little guys out there”. Her policy is to never say “no”, but to help her clients find the right strategies and solutions to their problems. Sara is one of those fabulous attorneys who fully “gets” the realities of crisis communication today, which is why I absolutely wanted to sit down with her and discuss how professionals can o

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Take Two…and Call Me in the Morning!

Women in Consulting

'By: Melissa Stacey. If you have kids you know how hard it is to stay organized with them home during the Summer. Don’t fret, keep it simple. Below are the most popular organization tips from the Feeling Organized Facebook Page – pick two that will impact your sanity and environment the most and call it a day: • Don’t buy containers until you have a specific purpose for them.

System 88
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Holier than Thou: Why Should Anyone Believe the US, Ukraine, or Russia? What is the US Attempting to Hide?

MishTalk

'I am quite tired of rhetoric from the Obama administration and Kiev regarding the situation in Ukraine. Hardly any of it is believable. Indeed, some Ukraine propaganda efforts of Kiev are so amateurish they appear as sloppy acts of desperate coverups. If so, then it is far more likely Ukraine is the guilty party, not the separatists. If you are innocent, you do not choose such tactics.

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TOOLS and METHODOLOGIES for developing DECISION SUPPORT PACKAGES

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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Navigating Innovation's Perilous First Mile

Strategy+Business

'Innovation expert Scott D. Anthony has a toolkit for surviving the wreck-strewn entrepreneurial journey, from initial concept to reality.

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Darwin the Evolved Consultant – The Consulting Masses

David A Fields

'All images and text are the copyright of David A. Fields. (c) 2014 David A. Fields. All rights reserved. The post Darwin the Evolved Consultant – The Consulting Masses appeared first on David A. Fields. Consultants Context Discussion Creating Value Darwins Fees Positioning Proposals Relationships adding value agreements Consultative selling fees positioning positioning.

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Chasing The Trend

Tom Spencer

'Is Not A Strategy. MANY FIRMS and many people live their lives by chasing the trend. They ask themselves questions like, what’s popular? What are other people doing? What’s the “it” thing? They then chase the trend in an attempt to ride the wave of prosperity and capture some of the growth, glory and profits for themselves. This may work for you, and it may work more than once.

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Dramatic Emotional Exits And Destroyed Reputations

Melissa Agnes

'By Yael Grauer. There’s an episode of Girls where aspiring memoirist Hannah Horvath, played by Lena Dunham, decides that she wants to quit her job writing advertorials for Neiman Marcus at GQ. Her issues with the job were completely understandable. She wanted to be her best creative self, writing for a greater cause than simply selling a product.

Talent 100
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Why You Need to Use Case Studies in Sales and Marketing (and How to Start Now)

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

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My Top Five Favorite Organizing Products!

Women in Consulting

'By: Melissa Stacey. A question I’m often asked is, “ What are your favorite organizing products ?” And while I don’t recommend going out and buying these items until you have a use for them, here are my five favorite products that will make an immediate impact on your home or office space: Brother Label Maker – Give your stuff an “address” so things are easy to find and easy to put away.

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Spain Issues Retroactive 0.03% Tax on Bank Deposits to "Boost Economic Growth and Job Creation"

MishTalk

'Via translation from Libre Mercado , Spain will retroactively tax bank deposits to January 1, 2014 stating the move will boost growth and job creation. Guru Huky correctly labeled the tax for what it is "More than a tax, this looks like a mini seizure of deposits. Someone likely needs a few million and to balance the books." The notion that a tax increase will boost the economy is of course absurd.

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Free or Fee?

Chad Barr

This week’s reflection point: So you’ve just created a valuable eBook that you are about to offer to your clients. Should you charge for it or provide it for free? The answer is quite simple. If the key objective is to leverage the eBook for marketing purpose, then I recommend you offer it for free. On the other hand, if the objective is to leverage the eBook to increase your sales, then you should charge for it.

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How to Win Follow-On Business

David A Fields

'A question I was asked: I have a project with a client right now, and I see opportunities for more business with them. How do I land this follow-on business? What would your suggestion be to this consultant? What has worked for you? Post your suggestion by using the ‘Leave a Comment’ box below. (I’ll post what I told him in a couple of days.).

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The Art of Remote Collaboration: How to Successfully Whiteboard with Remote Teams

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.