Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

'We’re on a Tour Throwback trip…welcome to Part 4. If you missed our recaps of Georgia Tech , Duke , or Georgetown , read those first. If you are just joining us, we are holding our next 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp in San Francisco on September 21. Or, invite us to come present a 2-hour Bootcamp Lite (60 attendees minimum, lecture) or 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp (8-30 participants/day, interactive w/breakouts) – we would be honored to meet with you.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

'Home. About. Book Shop. Archive. Definitions. Helpful Links. Quotes. Subscribe. Mercedes Leads the Race to Build Autonomous Cars. by Tom Spencer on September 10, 2013 · 0 comments. in Leadership. Look mum, no hands! Mercedes-Benz S500 Intelligent Drive has driven itself 125km through Germany without driver intervention. MERCEDES-BENZ has demonstrated its capabilities with self-driving technology and provided a glimpse of the future by successfully driving its prototype S-Class from Mannh

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Women in Consulting

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

'By: Kate Purmal Editor’s note: Kate inspired us all to cultivate a long term vision at the July WIC monthly meeting. In this blog, she offers specific guidance for doing this kind of long-term planning. Long-term planning. We all know it’s important. But for most of us, it’s the to-do that always slips to the bottom — or right off — the list!

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

'On August 1, in India Housing Bubble Still Expanding I posted a series of charts by Deepak Shenoy, an economic blogger at Capital Mind in India. Those charts showed the bubble in India was alive and growing. Here is one of the charts and a small bit of commentary. As of March 2013, Prices have more than doubled since 2009. The All-India Index is at 211, from 100 in March 2009.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

'This is Part 3 of a 7-part throwback series on our East Coast Tour. Go back to Part 1 or Part 2 here … In case you’re new to the site, we are holding our next 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp in San Francisco on September 21. Or, invite us to come present a 2-hour Bootcamp Lite (60 attendees minimum, lecture) or 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp (8-30 participants, interactive w/breakouts) – we would be honored to meet with you.

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Kates Kesler

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

'We often use the term “organizational muscle” as a way to bring the concept of “capabilities” to life. It is a useful analogy. If execution of strategy is the goal, then the organization is a means to that end. The measure of success of any design is what it allows the organization to “do” better than the competition. Both muscles in the body and capabilities in the organization: Turn energy into motion using positive tension.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

'Inquiring minds just might be asking "Where the hell did all the fiscal stimulus, financial aid, and monetary stimulus go?". It''s a damn good question. And I have the percentage answer for Spain (by Spain''s own admission). Results would be similar for any country you look at (including the US). For example, every penny of QE went to Wall Street and distressed banks, not the average Joe on the street.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

'This is Day 2 of our East Coast Tour Recap…for Part 1, go here. Otherwise, read on. After a Tuesday morning full of client calls and edits, we rocked the rental car again and – with the exception of a stop at Chick-Fil-A – one of the only chain restaurants that consistently rises above our California local-fresh-organic snobbery – we rolled onto the Duke Campus.

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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

'Dave Ramsey was telling a small business person how he''d built his media empire. The guy interrupted, "well, sure, that''s fine for you, because you have a trust brand.". A trust brand? What other kinds of brands are there? Perhaps your brand stands for cheap or convenient. Sure, you can win with that for a while, at least until someone gets a little cheaper or the internet gets a little closer.

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Gina Abudi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

'Resolving the issues This is Part 3 of a 3 part story about a team that was initially working together well and then began to have problems that were impacting the team members and the outcome of their initiative. In Part I we provided background information, in Part II we discussed why the team was [.].

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

'On the first Friday of every month, I go through the jobs report and note the grossly distorted statistics. For example, please see BLS in Wonderland written Friday, September 6. Every month I conclude with a couple paragraphs like these: Grossly Distorted Statistics. Were it not for people dropping out of the labor force, the unemployment rate would be over 9%.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

'And…we’re back. Not back in the saddle – we never left (and we never do!). But back from the East Coast – where we just completed an invigorating, hilarious, exhausting 8-day tour of some of the most beautiful and smarty-pants campuses around. A huge shout-out to all 500+ of you who met up with us in person on the tour. For the next 7 days, we are rolling out a play-by-play (with photos) of what we got up to – 1 post per day.

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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

'There are proven strategies that generic products can use so that they''re more likely to be stumbled upon by someone searching. Name your new book with all sorts of keywords in the title, for example, so it organically ranks higher for those very keywords. The alternative is to create a product that earns a reputation sufficient that people choose to talk about it, choose to argue about it, choose to look for it.

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Chad Barr

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This week’s reflection point: I just wrapped up enabling the technology to conduct a very successful live streaming event, In the Buyers Office, with Alan Weiss and Suzanne Bates. I’ve been a huge fan of this technology, while preaching its strategy for quite some time. Simply stated, this technology allows you to deliver live workshops and events over the Internet to as large an audience as you could attract.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

'Readers may be interested in the Full Text of Obama''s War-Mongering Speech on Syria. Fake Diplomacy. I can sum up Obama''s speech in two words "Flip Flop". Obama backed down from his John Wayne McCain guns-a-blazing approach to a fake-diplomatic stance " I have, therefore, asked the leaders of Congress to postpone a vote to authorize the use of force while we pursue this diplomatic path. ".

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

'We’re on a Tour Throwback trip…welcome to Part 4. If you missed our recaps of Georgia Tech , Duke , or Georgetown , read those first. If you are just joining us, we are holding our next 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp in San Francisco on September 21. Or, invite us to come present a 2-hour Bootcamp Lite (60 attendees minimum, lecture) or 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp (8-30 participants/day, interactive w/breakouts) – we would be honored to meet with you.

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Martinka Consulting

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

'September 10, 2013 . . The August 26, 2013 Wall Street Journal had a page 3 article titled, “Seattle a Leader in Job Growth” and it discussed why we have a turbocharged economy that has dropped the unemployment rate to 5.9%. Seattle has always been (at least in my life) a contrarian economy. We tend to go up when other places are stagnant and our dips never seem to coincide with the national trends.

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Chad Barr

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

My close friends know that I often have the tendency to misspell the word voilà and instead use the word Viola. So here is my new license plate, courtesy of my good friend Phil Symchych. The post My Poor Spelling appeared first on The Chad Barr Group.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

'In the following video, Mark Dice, tells passers-by that Obama endorses Karl Marx for president in the 2016 election. People willingly sign a petition to get Karl Marx on the ballot. Link if video does not play: Communist Karl Marx Endorsed by Obama. Mike "Mish" Shedlock. [link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

'We’re on a Tour Throwback trip…welcome to Part 4. If you missed our recaps of Georgia Tech , Duke , or Georgetown , read those first. If you are just joining us, we are holding our next 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp in San Francisco on September 21. Or, invite us to come present a 2-hour Bootcamp Lite (60 attendees minimum, lecture) or 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp (8-30 participants/day, interactive w/breakouts) – we would be honored to meet with you.

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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

'The only reason that typesetting works is that a small collection of letters can be re-used again and again to print millions of different words. This seems obvious, but it was actually the conceptual breakthrough that led to the long path that brought us to Gutenberg etc. Your work is based on a similar insight. Our skills, resources and assets are like letters in the alphabet and we can re-use and recombine them in many different ways.

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Gina Abudi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

'Suddenly it is as if they don’t like each other This is Part I of a 3 part story about a team that was initially working together well and then began to have problems that were impacting the team members and the outcome of their initiative. In Part I we’ll provide background information, Part II [.].

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

'On February 19, I wrote Opting Out of Obamacare (the Unaffordable Health Care Act); Not Even Labor Unions Want It. The issue has now come to a head as the AFL-CIO Lays Out "Laundry List" of Formal Complaints Regarding Obamacare. The Hill reports AFL-CIO nearing formal criticism of ObamaCare. Unions, after a contentious and difficult process, are on the cusp of issuing formal criticism of ObamaCare at the AFL-CIO convention.

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Strategy+Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

'Fights in the boardroom between shareholders and management highlight one important question--who gets to call the shots?

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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

'When you say, "my customers," or, "my readers," you''re using a shorthand, but you''re also making a mistake. We''re not yours. We''re ours. Your readers aren''t going to spread an idea merely because you ask them to. Your customers aren''t going to buy an upgrade just because you issue one. In the short run, sure, momentum may keep things going. But in the long run (and all the important stuff is in the long run) those individuals, that tribe, is going to care about what they always care about

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