Jacq Hackett Consulting
JUNE 28, 2018
There are days as a consultant when things are going wonderfully. You’ve got a lot of work in the pipeline. Your current projects are going well. And you pat yourself on the back for making such a smart decision by making the move to consultancy. And then a few things go wrong: A project has been delayed due to an issue at the client end and now it looks like you have a clash of timeframes with another project.
David A Fields
JUNE 26, 2018
Consulting firms often experience swings or surges in clients and projects. You can smooth your ride and enjoy your consulting practice more by reversing your priorities. Not sure what that means? Read on… Some things that go up and down are fun: pogo sticks, hydraulic presses, roller coasters (when I was a kid).
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Tom Spencer
JUNE 23, 2018
Student consultants certainly mean well: for their CVs if not the organisations they consult to. But whether student consulting organisations deliver for clients or the students who take part is questionable. In this piece, I look at the reasons professional consulting firms are hired, and explain how student consultants are ill-placed to offer the same value propositions.
Management Consulted
JUNE 26, 2018
Let’s face it – you didn’t sign up to be a consultant because you wanted to spend your work years in a cubicle, neck deep in mediocrity. You braved an insane interview process because you knew there was more out … Continued. The post 5 Insane Perks of Travel at Elite Consulting Firms appeared first on Management Consulted.
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Strategy+Business
JUNE 24, 2018
Although technology may be able to cross physical and temporal gaps, the cultural and interpersonal gaps -- differences in cultural habits and communication styles -- are still problematic. Here are three ways to begin to bridge those gaps.
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Consulting Success
JUNE 28, 2018
Michael was recently featured on the Action Now CFO podcast, which you can listen to here: Helping Elite Consultants Achieve Success: Co-Owner of “Consulting Success” Michael Zipursky How do you pick your ideal target market? Why do you have to create content for your business and for your clients? What’s the mindset you must adopt when it comes to marketing your consulting business?
Tom Spencer
JUNE 23, 2018
It’s almost summer, and you have probably accepted an offer from your favorite B-School that you pursued for months. Based on conversations with your B-school seniors, you know how intense the first few months of the program is, with coursework, networking, and internship hunting all happening at the same time. Perhaps the thought of such forceful months is scaring the hell out of you.
Henry DeVries
JUNE 29, 2018
Time to go old school and consider the OG of motivational self-help books. I am a big fan of Napoleon Hill’s approach as the author of the book, Think and Grow Rich. This 1937 classic sparked the self-help genre.
Jacq Hackett Consulting
JUNE 28, 2018
There are days as a consultant when things are going wonderfully. You’ve got a lot of work in the pipeline. Your current projects are going well. And you pat yourself on the back for making such a smart decision by making the move to consultancy. And then a few things go wrong: A project has been delayed due to an issue at the client end and now it looks like you have a clash of timeframes with another project.
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Consulting Success
JUNE 25, 2018
When stakes are high, people turn to RSM Consulting’s Joe Decilveo, Jr. His expertise is frequently tapped in areas around shareholder litigation, regulatory investigations, plea agreements, commercial disputes and other potentially difficult situations. Joe joined RSM in 2011 with a small team of professionals to complement RSM’s Chicago-based bankruptcy and insolvency practice.
Johanna Rothman
JUNE 27, 2018
When I teach any sort of product/project/portfolio management, I ask, “Who believes multitasking works?” Always, at least several managers raise their hands. They believe multitasking works because they multitask all the time. Why? Because the managers have short work-time and long decision-wait time. If you are a manager, your time for any given decision looks like this: The work-time is short.
Henry DeVries
JUNE 27, 2018
Getting ahead of life before life happens can save families drama, trauma, chaos and big money, and allow them to be more present in situations when it really counts.
Management Consulting Prep
JUNE 27, 2018
A. Overview Recently, I have been receiving emails concerning the Bain’s test. Rumor is that several Bain offices have employed test to screen out candidates before inviting them to case. The post Bain Screening Test: Overview & Official Sample Tests appeared first on Management Consulting Prep.
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Clarity Consultants
JUNE 26, 2018
We've previously discussed how big of a challenge it can be for businesses to keep pace with the rapidly evolving Learning and Development landscape. The latest technology and personal learning experiences have completely changed individual expectations of the corporate classroom. When your trainees are stuck viewing outdated learning content and formats, their experience as a consumer has conditioned them to expect more from that experience.
Chad Barr
JUNE 27, 2018
Photo by: Chad Barr. For as long as I can remember, I love investing in my continued education. It provides me the ability to stimulate my mind, explore new innovations, discover what others are doing, stay on top of the latest and greatest, exchange ideas, while meeting fascinating people. Each year I found myself selecting several key growth opportunities to attend that would push me outside my comfort zone.
Henry DeVries
JUNE 28, 2018
"Managing projects is critically important, but we don't spend much time or effort getting good at it,” says Seth Godin. “What we need is a structured approach, a framework for getting things done.
Women in Consulting
JUNE 28, 2018
By: Amy Huson. Do you suffer from overwhelm? Too much to do that you don’t know where to start? Designer and productivity consultant Judy Dang offers a way to get unstuck. She’s the guest speaker at the next Women in Consulting South Bay lunch and learn on Monday, July 9th from 11:30 to 1:00. To find out more about bringing this workshop to your office, get in touch: AvidAtWork.com.
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Johanna Rothman
JUNE 28, 2018
Many new-to-agile teams use some form of iteration-based agile approach. Often, in the form of Scrum. Back in Time You Spend in Agile Meetings (near the bottom of the post), I enumerated all the possible meetings. I suggested the team review its WIP limits and think about limiting the WIP for the entire team. When the team reduces its WIP, the team might be able to reduce the number of meetings.
Consultants' Consultant
JUNE 27, 2018
Consultants Consultant: One of the things that separates a good data scientist from a great data scientist is really that communication with the people who actually do the jobs, who are familiar with the problem you are trying to solve. Because at the end of the day that helps you with features. They’re going to know way […]. The post Good vs Great Data Scientist appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.
Rod Burkert
JUNE 26, 2018
Conventional lives are led by people who feel they HAVE TO do things they would rather not. They rationalize their lack of choice and the pain it causes, as: that’s just the way it is. But as entrepreneurs, we chose to want to live different lives – lives doing things that are creative, productive, and satisfying. That’s the theory, anyway. How’s it working out for you?
Strategy+Business
JUNE 26, 2018
Interest rates are set to rise globally and tax rules are changing. Companies need to organize operations around a new value equation that makes cash king to maximize their competitive edge.
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Harvard Business
JUNE 29, 2018
TommyL/Getty Images. Developing good relationships is a crucial aspect of leadership. Research shows that when people have a good relationship with their leaders, they’re more motivated, they perform better, and they’re more likely to go the extra mile to support their team. These positive effects have appeared across a wide range of jobs and cultures.
Seth Godin Blog
JUNE 28, 2018
We sort people all the time. Society prefers easy, useless ones. Sorts like: Skin color. Gender. Disability status. Nationality. Religious background. Height. While these are easy to do and the result of long, long traditions, they’re useless. The alternatives? Kindness. Expertise. Attitude. Skill. Emotional intelligence. Honesty. Generous persistence.
Consulthon
JUNE 27, 2018
Hi All, I am working on an improvement project involving a digital platform created two years ago to federate over 4000 users internationally and run coordinated operations across apprx 30 local ce.
Martinka Consulting
JUNE 27, 2018
We have some house guests, a young couple from Ecuador, he having been an exchange student of ours a dozen years ago. On May 8 I showed them the front page of the Seattle Times and an article about how a survey showed the high cost of living is the number one thing people don’t like about the area (taking over the perennial top item, traffic). Cost of living really means the cost of housing.
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