David A Fields
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
Sometimes consulting projects go sideways, or south or downhill. Or all three. If you’ve been in consulting a while, you’ve faced an unhappy client. It happens. How you handle the situation makes all the difference to your consulting practice. (FYI, this builds on an article I published January, 2015.
Management Consulted
FEBRUARY 5, 2017
This week, we bring you the Top 10 Consulting firms in New York – the power center of the world. How do we know New Yorkers think the universe revolves around them? Well, for one, when we set our calendar in West Coast time, they show up on East Coast time – because who (that matters) lives outside the Big Apple? Jokes aside, we love the great city of NYC.
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BCG
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
Article Tuesday, February 07, 2017. A growing number of companies are moving to provide paid family leave for their US employees—and they're not all in industries you might expect. In addition to technology, financial services, and professional services firms, such organizations include food and beverage manufacturers, retail and food services companies, and even the US Department of Defense.
Tom Spencer
FEBRUARY 4, 2017
By Marguerite Arnold. While “ Bitcoin ” has become a household word over the past several years, the concept of what cryptocurrency actually is goes far beyond traditional concepts of “money”. First invented by the individual or group of people known as Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009, the original concept was to create a decentralized automated cash machine (in very simplified form) that would allow anyone to send assets of value to any other person whereby those assets would not need to pass through
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Melissa Agnes
FEBRUARY 9, 2017
Many organizations are still struggling with this old mindset of “we need to issue a press release in a crisis” And yet, issuing a press release can actually hinder your crisis management success. Why? Tune in to this week’s #crisisready video to find out! How are you going about changing this dated mindset within your organization?
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BCG
FEBRUARY 9, 2017
Article Thursday, February 09, 2017. Today, more and more businesses are migrating their products from a purchase-based to a subscription-based model. Ever since Salesforce.com pioneered software as a service (SaaS), companies across industry sectors—B2B and B2C alike—have made the move. In the entertainment business, Netflix ushered in monthly-DVD and online-streaming subscriptions, and Spotify supplanted iTunes.
Killer Consultant
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Whoever gets this question right, wins. I am only slightly exaggerating. Of course, you need the best people. But your chances of being the best _firm_ are significantly dependent upon the way you manage their knowledge. There is no way to sugarcoat this: managing knowledge in a consulting firm is f **g hard. See my first sentence. Now let me share some insights with you: Knowing who to ask beats finding lots of documents.
Chad Barr
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
When was the last time you received the royal treatment? Moreover, don’t you love it when you are given the red-carpet experience? Of course you do. We all like to feel special and receive that special touch. No matter what your product and service offerings are, you can easily incorporate this concept in your business and delight your clients.
Strategy+Business
FEBRUARY 5, 2017
The first sector to be disrupted by connected-car technologies could be auto insurance. The overall safety improvements ushered in by self-driving technology will affect the insurance business long before fully autonomous vehicles reach the mainstream. Claims will drop, and so will premiums. Only a few of today's auto insurance businesses may survive.
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BCG
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
Article Tuesday, February 07, 2017. For most hedge funds, 2016 was a difficult year. Although the stock market rose to all-time highs, hedge funds returned just 3%. This continued the trend of the previous five years, during which US hedge funds were outperformed by stock and bond markets. Some large clients, pension funds, and insurers started to pull out of hedge funds altogether; others reevaluated their allocations.
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
Few topics have received more attention in talent management than motivation, defined as the deliberate attempt to influence employees’ behaviors with the goal of enhancing their performance, and in turn their organizational effectiveness. Indeed, other than talent, motivation is the key driver of job performance, for it determines the level of effort and persistence employees will exert.
Consultants' Consultant
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
Consultants Consultant: I can’t say no. That’s what it feels like when a colleague asks for help. Saying no to clients is hard, as I’ve discussed before here. Saying no to your colleagues is harder, because there’s that team work thing to take into account. Can’t say no? get ready for generosity burnout Here’s a few tips […].
Strategy+Business
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
By creating an atmosphere of shared awareness, a well-designed dialogue "container" can enable transformative change. A moment when people ask "why not?" -- about something that seemed unachievable before -- doesn't come out of nowhere. It is developed through careful preparation.
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MishTalk
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Wikileaks’s founder Julian Assange claims he will “ throw oil on the fire of the presidential campaign in France “ The claim in in reference to Emmanuel Macron, a leading French presidential candidate, and head of the En Marche! political party. The information is from Clinton Emails. (more…).
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Esther is a well-liked manager of a small team. Kind and respectful, she is sensitive to the needs of others. She is a problem solver; she tends to see setbacks as opportunities. She’s always engaged and is a source of calm to her colleagues. Her manager feels lucky to have such an easy direct report to work with and often compliments Esther on her high levels of emotional intelligence, or EI.
Clarity Consultants
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
Feedback is arguably the holy grail within the world of corporate training and development. It's often high value, actionable, and comes at a low cost of acquisition. Feedback can give you the opportunity to self correct quickly and effectively is you are not on the right course (whether with customers or partners). The best part is that many people are happy to provide feedback because they know that it can directly impact their own experience, creating a mutually beneficial "win-win" scenario.
Seth Godin Blog
FEBRUARY 9, 2017
Perhaps the biggest cultural change of my lifetime has been the growing influence and ubiquity of commercial media in our lives. Commercial media companies exist to make a profit, and they've grown that profit faster than just about any industry you can name. At first, it was the scarcity created by the FCC (a few channels) and mass markets that led the industry.
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.
MishTalk
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
Australians’ private debt has soared to 187 per cent of their income. Debt is up from about 70 per cent in the early 1990s. The jobless rate rose for the second straight month in December to 5.8 per cent, and underemployment, the number of workers wanting more hours, is near an all-time high. Wage growth is the lowest on record. Australia has one of the world’s biggest property bubbles.
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
Your colleague says something that immediately makes you feel uncomfortable. He thinks he’s just being funny, but the comment is inappropriate — maybe even offensive, sexist, or racist. What should you say or do if you find yourself in this situation? Is there a way to draw attention to the comment without putting the other person on the defensive?
Henry DeVries
FEBRUARY 9, 2017
John Blumberg has spent the last two decades as a full-time professional speaker and author digging ever-deeper into the well of core values and what happens when leaders go astray.
Consultants' Consultant
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
Consultants Consultant: How to sell creativity at work when no one thinks they need it? And how to cross-pollinate your own work. The post Sell creativity and cross-pollination appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.
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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
MishTalk
FEBRUARY 9, 2017
As I pointed out long ago, there is no possible fix to the Dallas pension mess except massive haircuts to pension payouts. Given The pension board does not want to admit that, nor the mayor, nor the city council, it was inevitable talks would disintegrate into finger-pointing and lawsuits. That’s precisely what happened. (more…).
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 9, 2017
When Jared walked into a meeting to discuss a new marketing approach for a product, the conversation didn’t play out well. Five minutes into the dialogue, the product manager, Françoise, started interrupting him with questions he was planning to address later in the pitch. As the conversation ran off the rails, Jared struggled to keep a calm demeanor, while Françoise multitasked; Jared watched in frustration as she sent at least five text messages during their altercation.
Seth Godin Blog
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
Freelancers, writers, designers, photographers--there's always an opportunity to work for free. There are countless websites and causes and clients that will happily take your work in exchange for exposure. And in some settings, this makes perfect sense. You might be making a contribution to a cause you care about, or, more likely, honing your craft at the same time that you get credibility and attention for your work.
Consultants' Consultant
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
Consultants Consultant: Since I’ve started collecting things about how to make a “no” sound more like a “yes” for this program, I’ve come across a treasure trove of reasons you sometimes need to say no. It’s against the conventional wisdom (of say yes to everything) and against basic improvisation lore (law?
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