David A Fields
AUGUST 10, 2016
As a consultant, you can putter along, earning a reasonable income if you’re blessed with innate charm, passion for your practice or considerable chutzpah. But what truly allows some consultants to consistently succeed in winning projects, in attracting clients, and in commanding higher fees? Take 60 seconds to watch the video below and share the vital lesson I learned one Summer in North Carolina.
BCG
AUGUST 12, 2016
Article Friday, August 12, 2016. Back in 2012, as established companies began to make a serious push into digital, BCG advocated a concept known as “two speed IT.” It was something of a compromise—a very necessary one. If IT organizations were going to support digital initiatives, they needed to work in faster, more flexible, more collaborative ways.
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Tom Spencer
AUGUST 6, 2016
(Source: Flickr ). It is common for top consulting firms to subject consultants to a rigorous “up or out” policy. What this means is that consultants are required to advance to the next level of responsibility within a certain period of time or leave the firm. Consultants normally receive regular performance feedback and so have frequent opportunities to gauge whether they are making satisfactory progress.
Melissa Agnes
AUGUST 8, 2016
With the growing use of social media to follow brands, rather than navigating to the brand’s corporate website, should your corporate website still be used as your crisis communications home base? This is a good question. One you should aim to think through within your crisis preparedness. So what’s the answer? The truth is that, while you may have more than one “home base” today depending on your organization and its stakeholders’ preferred means of interacting wit
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MishTalk
AUGUST 7, 2016
Bloomberg writer Jessica Shankleman is willing to push global warming silliness up another notch with “politically correct” nonsense that Olympic … Continue reading →
Management Consulting Connection brings together the best content for management consulting professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Consultants' Consultant
AUGUST 9, 2016
Consultants Consultant: It’s important to be clear on any sub contractors you use to get your job done are in fact contractors. If you do, then they pay their own workers compensation and their own super. If they are not contractors you may be liable for those costs, plus other costs. Here’s how to determine if they are […]. The post Contractor or employee matters appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.
Melissa Agnes
AUGUST 10, 2016
Part of being crisis-ready means thinking through your organization’s top high-risk scenarios and developing a crisis preparedness program that is scalable, flexible and realistically actionable – and then integrating that program into the culture of your organization. In this week’s #crisisready video, I provide a high-level overview of how you can go about approaching the development of a strategic crisis preparedness program for your organization.
Harvard Business
AUGUST 8, 2016
One-on-one meetings with direct reports often feel more hurried and disorganized than they need to be. It’s important to check in regularly with each of your employees, but how can you make the best use of the time? How can you make the meetings more productive and collaborative? What do you need to change as the manager and what do you need to ask your direct report to do differently as well?
BCG
AUGUST 10, 2016
Focus Wednesday, August 10, 2016. Rapid growth in Internet usage in rural India is a double-barreled game-changer, with up to 300 million Indian consumers expected to be online by 2020. While most of the focus to date has been on urban users, rural areas—which are home to two-thirds of the country’s population, or some 870 million people—are where much of the action will be for the rest of the decade.
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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
Consultants' Consultant
AUGUST 8, 2016
Consultants Consultant: There’s a lot out there about happiness and how we can make it happen. Here are 6 proven secrets. Read and be happy! The post Happy happy happy appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.
MishTalk
AUGUST 12, 2016
The Economist and the World Economic Forum (WEF) have “dumb and dumber” competing notions as to what is the gravest … Continue reading →
Harvard Business
AUGUST 11, 2016
You’ve decided to leave your job and you’ve told your boss. But once you’ve gotten through that difficult conversation, you have to figure out how to tell others. Perhaps you’ve got a mentor who has been integral in shaping your career. And what about team members with whom you’ve worked for a long time? Do you need to tell everyone in person, or will an email suffice?
BCG
AUGUST 11, 2016
Article Thursday, August 11, 2016. Are digital technologies on the verge of rendering the automobile showroom obsolete? There’s no question that digital channels (including mobile and social networks) have fundamentally redrawn the map of the automobile purchase journey. New BCG consumer research in four countries—China, France, Germany, and the US—indicates that 50% to 70% of auto buyers (depending on the country) choose the make and model that they ultimately buy before they visit a dealer’s s
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Martinka Consulting
AUGUST 10, 2016
I don’t even have to open the plethora of business publications on my table to know there will be articles about management style, bad bosses, and teamwork. It’s a given. One reason being some people think the title “boss” means they have to boss everybody around rather than work “with them.” Over my years of working in, owning, and advising small businesses I have learned business owners can be the best, most accommodating, and caring bosses one could ever ha
MishTalk
AUGUST 9, 2016
Anyone with an ounce of common sense knows that negative interest rates cannot occur naturally, can only occur with government … Continue reading →
Harvard Business
AUGUST 8, 2016
Marion Barraud for HBR. In today’s highly competitive business environment, we all need to be in constant learning mode. No one can afford to take a vacation from developing new skills, especially as economic and political uncertainty threaten businesses and job stability and make future career prospects unclear. So how do you make sure your skills – or your team members’ skills — are keeping up with the pace of change?
Strategy+Business
AUGUST 7, 2016
The time it takes for Chinese consumers to incorporate a new technology into their lives is ever-shrinking as smartphones and broadband make adaptation easier.
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Gina Abudi
AUGUST 9, 2016
Employee effectiveness does not simply happen by magic. It must be managed and measured to ensure that not only are employees effective in their roles and in meeting the objectives of the organization, but also so that they are engaged and challenged. Use a variety of tools to measure and manage employee effectiveness Simply [.]. The post Measure and Manage Employee Effectiveness appeared first on Gina Abudi.
MishTalk
AUGUST 10, 2016
The EBA’s latest “Stress-Free” tests of 51 banks Eurozone have a minuscule overall capital shortfall of 5.6 billion euros.
Harvard Business
AUGUST 10, 2016
You can’t go more than five minutes these days without hearing about stress: stress tests, stress management, how everyone’s eventual cause of death will probably be — you guessed it — stress. We humblebrag about stress, we complain about it, we take yoga classes and meditate to get rid of it. We’re obsessed. But I’m about to propose something that might sound crazy: You don’t need to get rid of stress to live a happy, fulfilling life.
Seth Godin Blog
AUGUST 12, 2016
The reason that Uber drivers will always struggle. They don't have a relationship with the customer. It turns out that finding a customer and knowing where he wants to go is almost as valuable as having a car and knowing how to drive it. Because Uber and other middlemen are earning permission to connect with their customers, the driver will always get the short end of the stick.
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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
1 to 1
AUGUST 10, 2016
A few weeks ago I received a box full of clothes even though I hadn't purchased them. This wasn't a fortuitous accident (although that would have been great). The clothes were sent by the company Stitch Fix. How it works is shoppers create a profile about their clothing size and style preferences and a stylist with the aid of algorithms selects merchandise that may appeal to each customer.
MishTalk
AUGUST 7, 2016
The McKinsey study Poorer than Their Parents? offers a new perspective on income inequality over the period 2005-2014.
Harvard Business
AUGUST 11, 2016
Executive teams often struggle to land innovations that will significantly grow the business. A chronic problem is their emphasis on searching for breakthrough innovation — the creation of a truly new, highly valued product or service that could redefine their industry and lead to unprecedented revenue growth. “Where’s our iPhone?” they wonder.
Seth Godin Blog
AUGUST 6, 2016
A career is often based on one of these three stances: The Scientist does experiments. Sometimes they work, sometimes they fail. She takes good notes. Comes up with a theory. Works to disprove it. Publishes the work. Moves on to more experiments. The Engineer builds things that work. Take existing practices, weave them together and create a bridge that won't fall down, write code that won't crash, design an HR department that's efficient and effective.
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In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.
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