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The Right Way vs. Just One Way

CaseInterview.com

One of the reasons I enjoy traveling internationally is to see how other people do things. This was also one of the reasons I wanted to take my kids to travel outside of the United States. I wanted them to (hopefully) realize that just because they’ve only known one way of doing things doesn’t mean it’s the only way. I wanted to open their minds a bit.

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Employees Are Lonelier Than Ever. Here’s How Employers Can Help.

Harvard Business

Five ways to help your team build quality relationships.

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Why Your Organization’s Relevance Matters for Actuaries

Emerson Consulting Group

By David Coffaro , Principal of the Strategic Advisory Consulting Group Accepted by the Society of Actuaries’ Innovators and Entrepreneurs. Twenty years from now, some of the most recognized companies in the world today will not exist as many current household name brands become footnotes in history. To corroborate this statement, consider businesses that have disappeared in your community or nationally over the past twenty years – Toys-R-Us, Blockbuster, Plymouth, or Palm for starters.

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The Consulting Firm Caption Competition

David A Fields

Consultants like to know the order of things. That’s why smart, consulting leaders like you ask insightful, “Which comes first?” questions. For instance, when it comes to writing content, consultants ask, “Which comes first, the article or the puns?” or, “Which comes first, the title or the chocolate reference?” Most pressing of all, of course, … Continued.

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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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Choosing Consulting Projects That Give You Energy with Cy Wakeman: Podcast #190

Consulting Success

Look at your calendar and cross out the things that you don’t enjoy doing. You could do ten other things that you enjoy over one thing that you hate. It’s all about choosing the energy. In today’s episode, Michael Zipursky and his guest, Cy Wakeman, talk all about what it’s like to be a consultant and why positive energy is so. Choosing Consulting Projects That Give You Energy with Cy Wakeman: Podcast #190 is a post from: Consulting Success.

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Former McKinsey Associate Partner Shares How She Broke Into “The Firm”

Management Consulted

Stephanie Knight is a former consultant and Associate Partner at McKinsey. Her journey has taken her from Northwestern University to the mountains of northern Afghanistan, to Duke Fuqua Business School, to McKinsey and beyond. You’ll glean so much about life… Read Article. The post Former McKinsey Associate Partner Shares How She Broke Into “The Firm” appeared first on Management Consulted.

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Consulting Career Pathways After a Few Years (Edition 1: Undergrad to Consulting)

Tom Spencer

At about the 3-year mark after entering consulting most consultants who matriculated directly from undergrad begin to seriously consider their next steps. For prospective and current consultants alike, I want to highlight the reflections and career pathways taken by such consultants. 1. Stay in Consulting and Maybe Shoot for the Partner Track. In consulting, it is possible for someone to go from entry level to partner (essentially Executive level) at a major firm in as little as 8 years.

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Consultant Vs Contractor: What’s the Difference?

Consulting Success

What’s the difference between a consultant vs contractor? A consultant can function as a contractor which means they are brought in to do specific work for that client. But, in most cases, they are only working with one client at a time. However, a consultant can also be an entrepreneurial consultant. An entrepreneurial consultant doesn’t. Consultant Vs Contractor: What’s the Difference?

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As Customers Start to Schedule Their Getaways Again – How Do You Get Your Team Hired, Onboarded, and Trained Effectively?

Clarity Consultants

During the pandemic, the travel, leisure, and hospitality industries ground to a near halt. Many companies were not allowed to operate for several months, and even as reopenings move forward, many had their maximum capacities limited. Couple that with many customers canceling their plans, either out of necessity or concern for their health, and the impact of the pandemic was.

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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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Safe Space #8 – what can a manager do about racism at work?

The Management Centre

Welcome to the Safe Space – where managers can share their issues, and gain advice from top learning & development consultants. Here at =mc we encourage every participant we meet on our programmes to get in touch if they have specific issues they want to follow up on. From this we hear some common problems, issues, challenges, and worries. In this regular feature we share some of those challenges, and our advice, for dealing with them.

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Fun Discussing Management “Mobbing” on the Mob Mentality Show

Johanna Rothman

I had a terrific time with Chris and Austin on the Mob Mentality Show: Modern Management with Johanna Rothman. Is “mobbing” is the right word for management collaboration? Maybe. I'm not sure. However, the reasons we mob—to get all the people we need to learn and think together—those reasons work as well in management decisions.

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The Impact of AI on the Management Consulting Industry

Tom Spencer

Consulting, like many other industries, is under threat from artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). AI refers to a range of technologies that allow computers (or robots) to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings. ML plays an important part in building AI systems, and refers to the study of algorithms that improve with experience.

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How to Defeat Work-From-Home Burnout and Zoom Fatigue

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

As we transition from the pandemic into post-pandemic life, many companies have adapted hybrid models. That means workers coming in part-time only, while others remain fully remote. So the same issues of work-from-home burn out and Zoom fatigue that posed problems during the pandemic will remain salient for the foreseeable future. The vast majority of organizations treat these issues as day-to-day challenges.

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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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I’ll Have the No Normal® Please

Alan Weiss

The people who talk about “returning to normal” are those people who are going to be bringing up the rear in the new marketplaces. How do conference centers and hotels lure back millions of dollars in convention business when organizations can meet virtually? After all, a boring speaker is just as ineffective remotely as “live.” Do business owners think they can “go back” to treating employees as if they were furniture?

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Proactive Experience Marketing

The Fearless Marketer

Recently, when I took a close look at the marketing that has worked best for me over the past 35 years, two things popped out. First, my approach was always Proactive. That is, I reached out in some way to my prospective clients. Second, was that I did my best to give my prospective clients an Experience of what it might be like to work with me. Hence: Proactive Experience Marketing.

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Getting your clients to do your marketing for you

The Source

The results of a recent global survey we carried out of 3,500 senior buyers of consulting will be particularly interesting to those within consulting firms who have an interest in the success of thought leadership. The survey reveals that when senior buyers of consulting come across a piece of thought leadership on a topic that interests them, all but a tiny proportion will take action.

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269: Kip Wright—Isn’t It Time To Have The Data To Know That You Are Diversifying Your Workforce?

On the Brink Podcast

Learn how to attract and retain the best staff for your business. In this podcast, I was so excited to speak with Kip Wright about the work he has been doing to help corporations and businesses find the right talent and retain them with great performance. Having been an executive in banking and healthcare organizations, I remember far too well the pain of attracting and retaining the right staff.

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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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Consulting 301

Alan Weiss

There’s a lot of truth in the consulting advice, “If it hurts when you do that, stop doing that. That will be $50,000.” (The last part is my own value-based addition.). Here’s a current version: “Any strategy you had in place pre-pandemic is no longer even vaguely relevant. I’ll help you develop a new one. That will be $100,000.” Rinse and repeat.

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Q&A with Mark Cross

Brimstone Consulting

Q&A with Mark Cross. Mark Cross talks about leadership, change, and the luckiest week of his life. What are your areas of expertise? Leadership, Strategy, Corporate Board Advisory, Executive Coaching. What is a leadership tenant you believe to be critical? Leadership and change start with the leader. What is the greatest piece of advice you have been given?

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Performance Improvement and the Evolution of Consulting

Effective Managers

Management consulting is a very young profession, especially when you compare it to professions like medicine and accounting. Such trades have been around for hundreds and even thousands of years. Consulting, on the other hand, started as a profession only in the late 1800s, and universities started teaching it some time later. For instance, Harvard founded its Graduate School of Business Administration in 1908.

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Keeping Sharp, Transforming Your Skills

Chad Barr

When I chat with new prospective clients who want to strengthen their thought leadership through their web presence, I employ a simple test to measure their confidence and expertise by asking, “what is the greatest challenge your clients face and what are 3 recommendations you offer to resolve this challenge?” I am surprised when some, who claim to run a very successful business, are unable to articulate the answer quickly and powerfully to my question.

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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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Return to the Office: Benchmarking to Best Practices for Competitive Advantage w/Dr. Gleb Tsipursky Ep#105

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

Dr. Gleb Tsipursky is the CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts , a boutique consulting, coaching, and training firm that empowers leaders and organizations to avoid business disasters. Throughout his career, Dr. Tsipursky has consulted for Fortune 500 companies including Aflac, Honda, IBM, Wells Fargo, and others.

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Case Interview Frameworks

CaseInterview.com

Case Interview Frameworks. If you’ve done any research on case interview frameworks , you’ll find that my approach is a bit different than what you might see elsewhere. Other case interview prep resources often will give you dozens of frameworks to use in your preparation. My approach is different in that I have found it easier to master just 3-4 key frameworks that apply to the vast majority of cases.

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The Real Value of Middle Managers

Harvard Business

In the era of remote and hybrid work, their role as connectors is more important than ever. Here’s what they need to succeed.

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What’s Next in the Retail Customer Experience

1 to 1

Photo credit: Getty Images. Propelled by the pandemic, retailers transformed their services, products, and customer experience at breakneck speed. More changes are ahead as consumers emerge, ready to spend with high CX expectations. Retailers, however, have a thin margin of error as they recover from 2020. Steve Rowen, managing partner at Retail Systems Research, discussed lessons to be learned from the pandemic and what forward-thinking retailers are doing to position themselves for success.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

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.