Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutes. A mental model is simply a representation of reality. The world is complex, and so we cannot account for every moving part and keep all the details in our brains. In the words of the famous physicist Richard Feynman: “You only think you know, as a matter of fact. And most of your actions are based on incomplete knowledge and you really don’t know what it is all about, or what the purpose of the world is, or know a great deal of other things.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Your strategic planning session could be the most significant event of the year for your organization - let’s make sure it’s done right.

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Consulting Success

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Do you work on your entrepreneurial mindset? Are you taking care of your mental game just as much as your physical health & well-being? At Consulting Success®, we believe that your mindset plays a major role in how well you do in business. But we wanted to see if the stats backed it up. This. Entrepreneurial Mindset Study 2020: The Mindset of Successful Consultants is a post from: Consulting Success.

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On the Brink

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Reading the recent Forbes article, “ Do Women Make Better Leaders In A Pandemic? Don’t Trust The Data……. ,” I was reminded of my Anthropology 101 professor telling us that “data does not exist.” In other words, out-of-context data points have no meaning. Our brains have a fascinating ability to only see what we want to see. I.e., only those truths that support our own story of reality, which has little to do with evidence-based research or “factually supported” data.

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David A Fields

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Plenty of athletes earn fame and recognition for their brilliant, first year (a.k.a., their rookie year). They’re showered with champagne, praise and confetti… which sticks to the champagne—that part wasn’t well planned out. Far, far fewer of those phenoms are known for their extraordinary, enduring career. Why? Because they make a rookie mistake. The same … Continued.

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Consulting Success

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Do you groan when you think of having another virtual meeting? Do you feel burn-out sitting in front of your camera all day? What if virtual meetings didn’t leave you with “Zoom fatigue” — but instead, you left your meetings feeling energized and excited? In a recent mastermind event with a select group of our. How To Run The Perfect Virtual Meeting With Your Clients is a post from: Consulting Success.

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Markovitz Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Effective problem solving hinges on the ability to frame a problem properly. Not for nothing do people repeatedly trot out Einstein’s (purported) quote that “If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions.” Spending 92% of the time trying to understand the real problem is a good countermeasure to the very human tendency to leap to solutions.

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Rick Conlow

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The high performance formula is a recipe for greatness. This means creating a place where employees want to a good job, routinely go the extra mile, improve productivity, and are highly engaged in their jobs. The formula represents areas where managers can initiate positive behaviors. As a result, employees respond with excellent if not great results.

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Clarity Consultants

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Many people assume that eLearning is automatically a bit impersonal. When classes are taught through online forums and video conferencing, there’s a kind of distance between the instructors and students, particularly a physical one. However, eLearning doesn’t inherently lack the human elements many students need. In fact, it can actually foster strong connections and, ultimately, be quite intimate, sometimes achieving.

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Consulting Success

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

A lot of times, the best marketing isn’t what you say about yourself but what others say about you. Being on top of your relationship management skills is a definite must in order to keep your network solid. Frank Forte, the President of Forte Leadership Technology, joins Michael Zipursky to explain how relationships work in building your. Why You Must Master Your Relationship Management Skills With Frank Forte: Podcast #155 is a post from: Consulting Success.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutes. The coronavirus epidemic has rattled the planet. Universities are shutting down or going to online learning, California has issued a mandatory lockdown for its 40 million residents. The UK has 3,500 known cases of the virus and London will probably be shut down in the next week, if not before. Commerce has ground to a halt. The travel and hospitality industries have been decimated, stock markets around the world have tanked, and governments struggle to combat this devil

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The Source

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Sustainability could be one of the most important post-COVID consulting markets. But how well positioned are consulting firms to exploit it? In 2019, demand for digital transformation work, which combined strategy, technology, process, and behavioural change, grew by 16%, while demand for more standard and stand-alone services contracted by 1%. If we include other, fast-growing, similarly multidisciplinary work, such as analytics, the growth rate for work straddling the traditional consulting se

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Rod Burkert

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

In case you missed my last post: Why are we on LinkedIn? Because that is where the audience is! But which audience? When asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton is said to have replied, “Because that’s where the money is.” And social media is where our audience of leads, prospects, clients, and referral sources is. But that audience is split among different platforms, and there is little crossover between them.

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Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

In just the past few days, how many times have you been disappointed in the quality of service, responsiveness, and basic courtesy you’ve experienced? If you’re like me, it’s happening more and more often, and it’s so prevalent, that it’s becoming the norm. The level of service or performance we’re experiencing more often than not, is so low, our expectations of ‘good’ service have also been lowered.

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Alan Weiss

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The future of selling is all about evangelism. Are your customers and clients “marketing” for you by word-of-mouth and unsolicited referrals? If not—if you don’t have a steady stream of inquiries from people who have been told about you by your clients—then you aren’t sufficiently demonstrating A) the value you’re delivering, and B) your unique and vital role in that value.

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Jerry Fletcher

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

It’s great until it isn’t. It can be the backbone of the sharing of your body of intellectual property or it can delay the release by days, weeks or months or, in some cases years. Change. The inherent problem as well as solution with technology is that It keeps changing. Engineers and software designers keep trying to simplify things and, in my view, have achieved wonders.

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The Source

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

When I think of risk work, I often think of the famous 2002 quote from Donald Rumsfeld while he was the US Secretary of Defense: “… there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

"The biggest risk in communication is the belief it's been communicated when it hasn't". Keith Kitani is a two-time entrepreneur who built and sold his first business to Adobe. Now, he's the founder and CEO of GuideSpark, a leader in change communication that drives change and results by re-focusing the hearts of minds of employees. Most business leaders are comfortable creating strategies, along with programs to carry out those strategies.

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Henry DeVries

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Clients need to be treated fairly, not equally. And many should be shown out the door, even during the harsh COVID-19 economy.

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On the Brink Podcast

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Hear how to break barriers and be the leader you want to be! Shellye Archambeau is an amazing woman whom I was honored to interview. She has an illustrious career with a lot of firsts. But, as she will tell you, being the first African American woman to achieve her accomplishments was never easy. Instead, her career has been built on her aspirations and her ambitions.

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Brimstone Consulting

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Working parents are not okay. In August, I wrote that leaders need to take bold and innovative actions to transform the organization to support working parents and create a culture that will accelerate gender, racial, and ethnic equality. This struck a chord with many people and spurred conversations with parents, leaders, friends, and colleagues. Through these conversations, it is evident that parents are not okay and that bold and innovative actions are urgently needed to keep parents in the w

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On the Brink

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Women are smart. Women are capable. Women make great leaders. So why are only 4.9% of Fortune 500 CEOs and 2% of S&P 500 CEOs women ? Could it be because of the outdated, erroneous myths that surround both men and women when it comes to taking charge? This is the basis of my discussion in a recent article in IntelligentHQ where I argue that d espite enormous strides in business, government and many other areas, women often don’t get the respect men do for their leadership abilities, even whe

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Henry DeVries

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The pandemic is forcing many conferences to make the event work in the online world.

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The Management Centre

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

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 new blog we’ll share some of those challenges, and our advice for dealing with them.

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Chad Barr

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Three weeks ago, I hit a milestone that crept up without my noticing. I realized that I had written my 400 th weekly newsletter, without having missed a week, and while composing and sharing 400 newsletters with my clients and colleagues seems immense, it is, like so many things, a culmination of small pieces that became a large body of work. Stephen Sondheim, in the lyrics to his song, Putting it Together , in the excerpt below he spells it out very succinctly as it relates to art but is applic

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