Consulting Matters
APRIL 13, 2025
Today, Brad Rex shares the real reasons why executives hire consultants and coaches. He talks about his exciting career journey, which started at the Naval Academy, then to British Petroleum, and finally to Disney. He applied for a financial manager job at Disney and was one of 1400 candidates. Brad and I worked together at Disney and have been colleagues for many years.
David A Fields
APRIL 11, 2026
A senior colleague at your consulting firm keynotes Cacao Jam, the cacao dessert industry’s annual conference. As she wraps up her inspiring tale of the modern workplace melting pot, the audience rises to its feet. She basks in the thunderous applause and the glow of the spotlight framing her against the chocolatey brown backdrop. You … Continued The post Your Brand vs.
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Clarity Consultants
APRIL 12, 2026
In today’s rapidly evolving workplace, ensuring employees have comprehensive skill sets is increasingly critical for companies that want to remain competitive. However, this is challenging in the current landscape. Skill gaps are pervasive, so recruiting candidates with the missing capabilities is only sometimes practical. Fortunately, learning and development (L&D) initiatives can be used to fill learning gaps in the workplace.
Makarios Consulting
APRIL 12, 2026
Fifteen years have passed, but I (Tim) still remember the meeting as if it was yesterday. A dozen senior leaders were sitting around the conference table. I was leading them in an exercise to identify their core values. One of the executives frowned down at the materials in front of him, then caught my eye. He asked with a puzzled tone, “Do you mean my core values at work or at home?
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Whether you're a small firm or a large enterprise, the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Buyer's Guide for Professional Services is a must-read for any Professional Services firm looking into Microsoft Dynamics 365. This guide will provide an overview of the entire platform and answer questions about features, selection, purchasing, implementation, and support of the Dynamics 365 suite of solutions.
Epicflow
APRIL 11, 2026
Poor resource management and a lack of appropriate software are on the list of the biggest project management challenges, as stated by the Wellingtone report on the state of project management. So, it’s high time to change the situation, isn’t it? Learn how the adoption of the right resource management software can change the game – level up your resource management and contribute to achieving your business goals.
Management Consulting Connection brings together the best content for management consulting professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Organizational Talent Consulting
APRIL 10, 2026
Change is certain. Getting it right isn’t. Whenever leaders introduce bold change, creating workforce desire and understanding are vital. Without these two things, any change investment will amount to nothing more than pushback and anxiety. Large-scale artificial intelligence models like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion are reshaping the workplace and world.
Johanna Rothman
APRIL 10, 2026
Every minute, it seems as if someone is talking about how great ChatGPT is. It's going to revolutionize the world! I agree— I am sure AI will revolutionize the world. At some point. But I think it's going to remove all those busy-work jobs , not the jobs where we, as humans, offer value. Here's a short test to know if your job will survive the (somewhat) imminent AI revolution: Does your job require you to analyze something someone already did?
Strategic Planning and Management Insights
APRIL 11, 2026
On the Brink Podcast
APRIL 10, 2026
Hear how planning for the future means loving change I worked with Jennifer Kluge several years ago on a Blue Ocean Strategy workshop. Her organization, the National Association for Business Resources , was focused wholly on businesses in Michigan, offering important services from insurance products to support with accounts receivables. As CEO, Jennifer has catapulted NABR into a national initiative that supports businesses with best practices, training and development, insights, leadership, and
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When economic headwinds pick up, sales leaders are the first to sound the alarm — and chart a new course. Longer sales cycles, larger buying committees, increased price pressure, and smaller teams can quickly combine to reduce your margin for error and increase the urgency to find a solution. To thrive in a challenging environment, sales teams need a rock-solid grasp of the fundamentals and the biggest force-multipliers they can get their hands on.
Tom Spencer
APRIL 14, 2025
This is the sixth of a seven-part series looking at artificial intelligence and its implications for the consulting industry. AI in Consulting: The Beginning of a New Era How AI is Changing the Game for Consultants The Role of Consultants in an AI-Driven World AI-Powered Consulting: Tools You Need to Know About Real-World Examples of AI in Consulting Ethical Implications of AI in Consulting: A Deep Dive Leveling Up: Consulting Skills for an AI-Powered World As the field of artificial intelligenc
Johanna Rothman
APRIL 14, 2025
One of the themes that runs through the Successful Independent Consulting: Relationships That Focus on Mutual Benefit is: “Invite people to your newsletter.” Why? Because those people gave you permission to market to them. Your subscribers don't have to like everything you write—as long as they like most of what you write. Or that you intrigue their interest with your writing.
Strategic Planning and Management Insights
APRIL 13, 2025
How do you valuate a small business?
Harvard Business
APRIL 12, 2026
The race is on to see which brands can deliver.
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Traditional billing practices can leave paralegals and many staff at law firms spending countless hours manually creating and sending invoices, tracking billable hours, and processing paper checks. In this guide to legal billing, we uncover what it takes to create an efficient billing process that optimizes your time while improving the accuracy of your billing.
Tom Spencer
APRIL 14, 2025
Wealth management is a critical field that helps high net worth individuals and families to achieve their financial goals and maintain their financial assets over the long-term. Wealth managers assist their clients to do this through a combination of strategies involving financial planning, investment management, and risk management. The role of a wealth manager is to understand the unique financial needs and goals of each individual or family and to create a customized financial plan.
CaseInterview.com
APRIL 12, 2026
Many of the biggest decisions you’ll face in life involve other people. Will you be in a committed romantic relationship with me? Do you want to have kids? Will you give me a promotion within six months? What these decisions have in common are two-fold: 1. Your decision has high stakes; 2. Your decision depends on someone else’s decision. At first glance, these decisions seem like binary decisions.
Henry DeVries
APRIL 9, 2026
Hannah Roth from the marketing agency Predictive ROI shares the advantages of using a Community Tree Model to map out the different elements of building a community for your brand and the brands of your clients.
Harvard Business
APRIL 14, 2025
It promises to shift liability onto private firms and create incentives to defend against critical vulnerabilities.
With two-thirds of consulting firms saying they’re short-staffed, high-performing consulting companies are closing the gap by adopting on-demand hiring. But how are independent consultants pricing their projects? Find out in this report.
Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog
APRIL 9, 2026
Hey! I was doodling this week, waiting for a store to open in the mall, and I came up with a drawing for what innovation really looks like: Insight Creativity Action A circle. That’s innovation. Let’s take a look at this idea: First, insights. Insights are the understanding of the cause and effect of a situation. I posted on LinkedIn on Friday about Tesla’s need to offer a new round of price cuts.
Seth Godin Blog
APRIL 11, 2026
We spend almost no time teaching toddlers about freedom. Instead, the lessons we teach (and learn) for our entire lives are about responsibility. It’s easy to teach freedom, but important to teach responsibility. Because if you get the responsibility taken care of, often the freedom will follow. When someone points out a lack of responsibility, it can feel like an affront on freedom, when it’s actually a chance to create more freedom for the rest of the community.
Business Consulting Agency
APRIL 12, 2026
Starting a business can be an exciting and rewarding experience, but it can also be challenging and risky. According to the Small Business Administration, about one-third of new businesses fail within the first two years, and only half survive for five years or more. To increase their chances of success, many entrepreneurs turn to business consulting services for help.
Harvard Business
APRIL 13, 2025
Leaders must fundamentally rethink how they measure cybersecurity performance.
Speaker: Spencer Falbo, Principal at Kong Basile Consulting
For a long time, the market has offered point solutions for accounts payable, such as bill payment, expense management, travel software, and corporate cards. These instruments have aided in the automation of workflows for various aspects of non-payroll spending. Unfortunately, these tools have resulted in time-consuming processes that require manual gap filling, slow the month-end close, and leave accounting and leadership teams without much-needed visibility and control.
Chad Barr
APRIL 12, 2026
Do you find yourself struggling to deliver on your promises, get your work done, or create compelling content and publish your ideas? If so, you are not alone. Despite their expertise and passion, I find that many entrepreneurs and small business owners face similar challenges. The question I have is: What’s holding you back? And more importantly, how can you overcome it?
Seth Godin Blog
APRIL 8, 2026
More than ever, we’re pushed to have certainty. Strong opinions, tightly held and loudly proclaimed. And then, when reality intervenes, it can be stressful. The software stack, business model, career, candidate, policy, or even the social network habits that we had as part of our identity let us down. It’s not easy to say, “I was wrong.” And so people live in stress, sticking with something that used to work longer than they’re comfortable with.
Alan Weiss
APRIL 12, 2026
• You’re too young. • You’re too old. • You don’t have the right background. • You don’t understand the details. • You have no experience with this. • You don’t know the culture. Commonality? These are all excuses to protect someone from hearing a fresh, new, innovative idea to improve their or their organization’s performance because they are afraid to admit that they might be the cause of the problem.
Harvard Business
APRIL 13, 2025
Three scenarios — and how to navigate them.
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ABM gets better with age — but unfortunately, marketers don't have the luxury of pouring it into an oak barrel for a couple decades to let it mature. In a recent survey with Demand Gen Report, we found 59% of experienced practitioners (those with ABM programs more than a year old) indicated their ABM programs are meeting or greatly exceeding their expectations, while only 45% of novices (those with ABM programs less than one year old) could say the same.
Nash Consulting
APRIL 10, 2026
By Nash Consulting For the past several decades, comprehensive surveys of employee attitudes toward work find that around 50% of American workers confess they do only the minimum to avoid being fired. Although the idea of “quiet quitting” is now in vogue, it’s not new; many people have been silently skating by for years. As Steven Covey put it, “You can pay people for their hands and back, but they volunteer their hearts and brains.
Brimstone Consulting
APRIL 10, 2026
Taking a strategic approach to ESG can help you can a competitive advantage. An Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) strategy is a cornerstone to accelerating impact and financial growth goals. A forward-looking ESG strategy deepens customer relationships and loyalty, improves the ability to attract and retain talent, reduces regulatory risk, increases the ability to attract capital, and results in increased resilience, driven by a more nuanced understanding of stakeholder expectations.
Seth Godin Blog
APRIL 13, 2025
Roller coasters are one of the safest ways to travel (they end up where they begin, but that’s a different story). People pay to ride on them because they feel risky, even if they’re not. Air travel is really safe, and the airlines work overtime to reduce the perception of risk as well. That’s why turbulence is so jarring-it’s not actually risky, but it breaks the facade.
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