David A Fields

OCTOBER 14, 2015

According to LinkedIn, my network consists of roughly 120 million people. In fact, other than six elderly denizens of a village in Uzbekistan, it appears I’m indirectly connected to every person on the planet. Setting aside the absurdity of Xth-degree connections, LinkedIn has become the most valuable social network for business building. But they’re doing their best to reduce their own value and chase away customers.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 11, 2015

How in the world did Josh go from a PhD in cell and molecular biology to a job in federal consulting for The Tauri Group? As you can probably imagine, he had quite a few options on the table. Here at MC, we had the pleasure of recently interviewing Josh and asking him how he’s navigated his interesting career path, and how consulting was a great place for his passions and skills to collide.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 11, 2015

This is a guest post from Sarah Smith. Business owners know that they can’t attract customers if those customers don’t know that they exist. That is why they rent buildings in high traffic areas and pay large sums to place ads where people are likely to see them. There are many ways that companies can get the word out, and with all the hype around online and social media marketing it would be easy for companies to overlook how important proper signage can be to the success of a compa

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 11, 2015

IMF head Christine Lagarde says "IMF credibility is at stake". She blames the US for that development, and calls on US to give more voting power to China to solve the problem. Link if video does not play: " IMF Credibility at Stake " Credibility? I have a simple question: Precisely what credibility does the IMF have? To address my simple question, please consider the ZeroHedge report This Is How The IMF "Predicted" China's Slowdown As the following chart compiling the IMF's various quarterly eco

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David A Fields

OCTOBER 13, 2015

“What are you doing to make it easy for prospects to engage with you? How can you give inexpensive samples of your value?” The line above received a lot of attention when I tweeted it, so I decided to expand on it a bit. Clients need an experience of you to build enough trust in your abilities to hire you. If you don’t have a well-established relationship, a sample of who you are, what you do and how you work can do the trick.

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Kates Kesler

OCTOBER 15, 2015

After weeks of assessment, analysis, and discussion, your design team has arrived at a comprehensive solution that will create an organization with the right structure, roles, governance, process, and metrics to deliver on the business strategy. As the sponsor or project manager, you ask, “what could go wrong”? The team is silent. After all, they have followed the process, acted on the data, and tested several scenarios against the design criteria.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 11, 2015

As I have commented before alleged "free trade" agreements are anything but. We now have confirmation from Canada as to what it took for other signatories to agree to to the monstrosity of TPP. Reader TB passed along Alan Guebert's Free Trade’s Cheap Talk is Big Money. These easy-to-find challenges to NCBA’s silly Trans-Pacific cheerleading point to several underlying myths at the heart of Big Ag’s rock-ribbed belief that free trade is the past, current, and future salvation of American farms an

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Gina Abudi

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Coaching benefits not just the employees – but also the leader who is coaching them! Here are three benefits that leaders realize when they coach their employees: Your employees are stronger, more confident and work better as a team. Productivity increases. Collaboration increases. Conflicts are reduced. People will want to join your department, workgroup or [.].

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Strategy+Business

OCTOBER 14, 2015

In a new book, Harvard management guru Rosabeth Moss Kanter makes compelling business cases for the investments in resources, creativity, and endurance needed to rebuild and reinvent the U.S. transportation system.

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2015

1. What is it for? If this piece of writing works, what will change? What action will be taken?  The more specific you are in your intent, the more frightening it is to do the writing (because you might fail). And, magically, the more specific you are in your intent, the more likely it is to succeed. 2. Who are you? Writing comes from someone.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Banks have become convinced the Fed simply isn't going to hike. So instead of waiting any longer, large banks like Wells Fargo are plowing billions of dollars into longer dated treasuries and agencies. Simply put, Big US Banks Lose Patience With the Fed In the years since the crisis the banks have grown used to grappling with higher costs and subdued demand for credit, while keeping plenty of cash and cash-like instruments on hand in the hope of benefiting from an uptick in short-term rates.

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Gina Abudi

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Read Part 1 of the mini case study. Here are some ideas on what Elena might do – tactfully and diplomatically – to ensure she gets credit for the work on this project. First, Elena should talk address Jacklyn immediately but rather calm down and wait until later in the day or the next day. [.]. The post My Colleague is Taking All the Credit: A Mini Case Study – Part 2 appeared first on Gina Abudi.

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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Ever notice how at some gas stations, especially in small towns, the station also serves food and the placards on the pumps show pictures of whatever grease-bomb sandwiches they are currently pushing? After seeing a bunch of these on a trip I commented to my wife, “Don’t eat at gas stations.” To me it just doesn’t seem like the kind of place I want to get food.

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Strategy+Business

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Workshops in another setting can provide employees with a valuable means of thinking critically about their company's vision.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Following a huge string of terrible manufacturing reports from nearly every Fed region, I received this headline report from the New York Fed: Regional Service Sector Resilient even as Manufacturing Slumps. The October 2015 Business Leaders Survey of regional service firms, released today, paints a considerably more benign picture of local business conditions than the more troubling October 2015 Empire State Manufacturing Survey, released yesterday.

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Here's Randall Munroe's brilliant explanation of how the Saturn V rocket works. The brilliant part is that he illustrated it using only the 1,000 most common words (which, ironically, doesn't include the word 'thousand'). If you are only able to use 1,000 words, nuance goes out the window. The typical native speaker knows 20,000 words, and there's your opportunity: If you know 40,000 words, if you learn five words a day for a decade, the world changes.

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Gina Abudi

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Some background: Elena and Jacklyn have been working together on a fairly complex process improvement initiative for the last two months. At the same time that they have been working on this project, Jacklyn has been planning an upcoming surprise party for her husband’s 40th birthday party. Because of this, Jacklyn has not done as [.]. The post My Colleague is Taking All the Credit: A Mini Case Study – Part 1 appeared first on Gina Abudi.

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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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1 to 1

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Customer experience varies from company to company. Service that may appear subpar at one establishment may seem top-notch at another store. Ultimately, it's all relative. However, there are numerous factors that hinder CX no matter how high or low customers' expectations are. Though not always obvious, these elements undermine all other CX efforts because they slowly undo progress, causing satisfaction and loyalty to come apart at the seams.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 10, 2015

Financial Repression Insanity Purportedly the Fed is ready willing and able to go to next step of financial repression insanity: Negative Interest Rates. Federal Reserve officials now seem open to deploying negative interest rates to combat the next serious recession even though they rejected that option during the darkest days of the financial crisis in 2009 and 2010.

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2015

"All men are created equal." But after that, culture starts to change things. Almost nothing is evenly distributed. Some people seek out new technology in an area they are focused on. others fear new technology. Some people can dunk a basketball, others will never be athletic enough to do so. Some people are willing to put in the effort to be great at something, most people, by definition, are mediocre.

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Strategy+Business

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Eli Goldratt's theory of constraints can help leaders better pace and sequence change management programs.

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Leadership Vision Consulting

OCTOBER 15, 2015

In September, Linda shared a beautiful story of her work and the StrengthsFinder tool with her parents. It inspired me to think about how I might bring Strengths based knowledge and conversation into all areas of my life. In my previous post , I mentioned my dad’s passing. It was his unexpected death and a series of life events that catapulted my journey to discovering the work of StrengthsFinder and Leadership Vision.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 16, 2015

If it takes bribes and turning a blind eye to blatant corruption to get a needed favor, then one can expect bribes and two blind eyes. The Bribes In order to slow Syrian refugees entering Europe, Merkel Backs Multibillion-Euro Refugee Package for Turkey. German chancellor Angela Merkel has backed giving Turkey a multibillion-euro aid package to cope with refugees, giving impetus to a provisional EU deal with Ankara that aims to slow the flow of migrants to the EU.

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2015

An oxymoron that's true. Everyone who does good things does them because it makes them feel good, because the effort and the donation is worth more than it costs. (And it might be a donation to a charity or merely helping out a neighbor or contributing to a community project). Some people contribute because of the story they are able to tell themselves about the work they're doing.

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1 to 1

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Big Data can provide marketers and customer experience professionals with a wealth of information about customers such as web pages they've visited, sentiments they've shared about brands on social media sites, and other information that can provide insights about customers' preferences, needs, and behaviors. But in some cases, opportunities to engage with a customer or to improve a customer's experience occur at a particular moment when marketers, customer care associates, and other customer-fa

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