Consulting Matters

JANUARY 8, 2018

The number one way that really smart consultants get in the way of their own success is struggling with the fear that that they don't have what it takes. Despite years of education and experience they stay up at night wondering what is the best way to let their future clients know about how much they know and what they can bring to the table. They pursue certification after certification hoping that one of them will be the silver bullet that will make them irresistible in the marketplace.

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David A Fields

JANUARY 9, 2018

Rudeness, discourtesy, and aggressively insulting behavior hog the limelight these days. Often these traits are flaunted by people who have reached the pinnacle of the public and corporate spheres. Do we see this in consulting? What can we learn from it and how should we, as leaders of consulting firms act?

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 7, 2018

Happy 2018! Welcome to a year that contains the Winter Olympics happening in South Korea, the FIFA World Cup taking place in Russia, Mars’ close approach to earth, and the next royal wedding. Despite these historic events, we’re most excited … Continued. The post 2018 Management Consulting Salaries for Undergraduates, MBAs/PhDs, & Interns appeared first on Management Consulted.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 11, 2018

When you insist on hard work and high standards, you will see your consulting luck transform into substantial consulting success. Description: If your consulting business has more than one employee, chances are you have run into conflict with your partners or coworkers. On this episode of the Consulting Success Podcast, I’m joined by Liz Kislik, the owner of Liz Kislik Associates, with nearly 30 years of nationally acclaimed consulting management experience.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 6, 2018

Whether I was talking to graduates, MBAs or experienced professionals, as a consulting club president at business school, I was frequently asked the same question, “What is the most efficient and quickest way to transform into a consultant?”. Honestly, this could be one of the toughest questions one can ever answer. First let me be clear, the word ‘Consultant’ has such a broad spectrum that includes hundreds of roles from outsourcing technician, personal coach, freelancer, technical consultant a

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 11, 2018

It’s 2018. Last year, your consulting website was neglected. Now, your plugins are outdated, you published one post back in March, and you aren’t even sure if your contact form is still working. You’ve told yourself this year will be different. This year, you’re going to start using your website so that it helps you. You want to be successful because of your consulting website — not in spite of it.

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Women in Consulting

JANUARY 11, 2018

:: Recently I had the opportunity to make a presentation to a small group of consultants; a couple of them worked for Chevron-Texaco. They had just completed a screening process for a multi-million consulting project. In brief…here’s what they shared: 1. First consultants eliminated were ME CENTERED …they dominated the conversation, told all about their processes, products, past clients.

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Actionable

JANUARY 10, 2018

What can we do to work with our habit nature—with the parts of ourselves that are most resistant to change? How do we create the best versions of ourselves? The post Overcoming Your Habit Nature — Embrace Your Saboteurs appeared first on Actionable.co.

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Chad Barr

JANUARY 10, 2018

Photo by: Chad Barr. I just approached several of my clients and asked them to reflect on the biggest impact I’ve had on their life and business. I realize this may come across as self-serving, but please stay with me. Here are some of their answers: Wrote hundreds of newsletters. Published multiple books. Created podcasts and videos channels.

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MBO Partners

JANUARY 8, 2018

Building strong relationships with existing clients can set you up for repeat business. Follow these 6 tips to ensure your client relationships last.

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Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC

JANUARY 9, 2018

Seth Meyers Image By Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America [CC BY-SA 2.0 (?[link] via Wikimedia Commons. I speak, consult, and coach on leadership so I don't typically comment on awards shows. I also don't typically comment on awards shows because, honestly, I can't stand to watch most of them. I typically only make it through the first award or two and by then I'm tired of the glam, glitz, platitudes, and rambling political or activist comments of the winners.

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Actionable

JANUARY 10, 2018

What can we do to work with our habit nature—with the parts of ourselves that are most resistant to change? How do we create the best versions of ourselves? The post Overcoming Your Habit Nature — Embrace Your Saboteurs appeared first on Actionable.co.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 9, 2018

Ryan Ripley interviewed me on his podcast, Agile for Humans 83 about Create Your Successful Agile Project. We had a blast. I didn’t stint on my opinions or on my experience with agile teams. One of those opinions was about teambuilding, which I wrote about in Creating an Environment of Teamwork. The other opinion (based on my experience) was that of using ROI to predict which product, project, or feature a team should do first.

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SkillQuo

JANUARY 6, 2018

When should you hire one of the traditional Big 4 Consulting firms, and when and why should you consider a lean alternative? Management consulting is oftentimes largely unattainable for companies that need their services the most. Firms such as McKinsey, Deloitte, Bain, and BCG almost always work with clients with $1B revenue minimums. This is a necessity so that clients can pay for not only the consultant’s time, but also for overhead, SGA expenses, and weekly travel and hotel stay for the con

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Clarity Consultants

JANUARY 11, 2018

Sometimes we as learning and development experts learn more from our own programs than the students we aim to educate. It happens. Sometimes the training that was developed simply didn’t solve the problem. There are a number of reasons why that might be the case, but often the issue at the root of the problem is that the real problem was more complex than originally thought.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2018

MirageC/Getty Images. People don’t quit a job, the saying goes — they quit a boss. We’ve heard it so many times that when we started tracking why employees leave Facebook, all bets were on managers. But our engagement survey results told a different story: When we wanted to keep people and they left anyway, it wasn’t because of their manager…at least not in the way we expected.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 8, 2018

A colleague asked my opinion on the various teambuilding activities she was considering for a new-to-agile team, to help them get to know each other and work together. All the activities she considered were simulations of various kinds. I suggested she reconsider the simulations and focus on the work to help people learn to work together. I’m not against teambuilding.

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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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Strategy+Business

JANUARY 11, 2018

To Safra Catz, one of Oracle's top three leaders, advances in artificial intelligence and cloud computing are starting points for more comprehensive transformation. In the first interview in our new "Inside the Mind of the CEO" series -- which kicks off PwC's 2018 CEO Survey -- Oracle's chief executive explains the broad culture shift brought on by AI and cloud technologies.

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Consultants' Consultant

JANUARY 8, 2018

Consultants Consultant: Lisa Feldman Barrett’s talk on emotions is well worth your time (even more so if you use Ted’s acceleration options at the bottom of the video – I listened at 1.5 times the speed very comfortably). Here are some of my highlights: emotions are not built-in, we build them we have a quick and efficient […].

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2018

eva bee/Getty Images. The vast majority of humans throughout history worked because they had to. Many found comfort, value, and meaning in their efforts, but some defined work as a necessity to be avoided if possible. For centuries, elites in societies from Europe to Asia aspired to absolution from gainful employment. Aristotle defined a “man in freedom” as the pinnacle of human existence, an individual freed of any concern for the necessities of life and with nearly complete persona

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Seth Godin Blog

JANUARY 11, 2018

It's very difficult to reason with someone if their hair is on fire. Customer service (whether you're a school principal, a call center or a consultant) can't begin until the person you're working with believes that you're going to help them put out the fire on their head. Basic principles worth considering (are you listening, Verizon?). The first promises kept are hints that you will keep future promises.

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Henry DeVries

JANUARY 8, 2018

The right publicity can be a game changer for attracting high-paying clients. The credibility of third-party coverage might be just the answer your business needs.

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Strategy+Business

JANUARY 9, 2018

In her new book, Leslie Berlin offers a group portrait of the unsung heroes who forged iconic companies -- and a new industry -- in the 1970s.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 8, 2018

I had a great time recording with two of the guys from the Agile Uprising Podcast. See Create Your Successful Agile Project with Johanna Rothman. We discussed the book. I had an opportunity to rant and rave about many things: agile project managers (no, the term is not an oxymoron). a little about why the titles of master, chief, and uber make me nuts. and why managers don’t know enough about flow efficiency.

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Seth Godin Blog

JANUARY 7, 2018

We do this in two ways: The first is refusing to be clear and precise about what the mission is. Avoiding specifics about what we hope to accomplish and for whom. Being vague about success and (thus about failure). After all, if no one knows exactly what the mission is, it's hard feel like a failure if it doesn't succeed. The second is even more insidious.

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