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Three People Who Can Spot Little Things Holding Your Consulting Firm Back

David A Fields

There are a couple of little steps in your consulting firm’s normal routine that are dampening your performance.

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Exit Strategies To Transition From Employee To Consulting With Dr. Nika White: Podcast #274

Consulting Success

Do you want to transition from employee to consultant? Do you want to know the best exit strategies for doing so? In this episode, Dr. Nika White shares her experiences building a successful consulting business and what it took her to make such a transition.

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Three Truths behind Employee Productivity (& How to measure and Improve it)

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

team building workshops team development team alignment employee productivity

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Servant Leadership: The Antidote to Toxic Workplaces

Rick Conlow

Servant Leadership is the antidote to toxic workplaces. Unfortunately, toxic offices, plants, stores, and managers abound. Too often companies take advantage of employees and treat them as lower class citizens.

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The ABM Benchmark Survey

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. It’s clear there’s a maturity gap in ABM strategies, so how can marketers start closing it?

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Why Success Doesn’t Lead to Satisfaction

Harvard Business

It’s time to confront your unhealthy relationship with achievement. Personal growth and transformation Psychology and neuroscience Managing yourself Digital Article

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Applied Behavioral Economics Rule of Thumb #6: Tap Into the Power of Thinking Architecture Tools To Help People With Decisions

Steve Shu Consulting

Yesterday I outlined five primary areas of behavioral architecture that we would cover during the academic semester. Two prominent ones we covered included choice architecture (e.g.,

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Tesla: Leading the Charge Toward Sustainability

Tom Spencer

In the past two decades, Tesla, Inc. has disrupted the auto industry and established itself as a leader in sustainable energy.

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Why You Should Consider Incorporating Microlearning in Your Training

Clarity Consultants

Microlearning is a training approach that focuses on providing information in bite-sized chunks. The goal is to ensure the material is highly digestible and that courses are accessible to even the busiest learners. Overall, a microlearning strategy is relatively easy to implement.

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4 Things End Users Want During Desk Relocation Projects

PM Alliance

When it comes to planning and executing office move projects, your team needs to prioritize orchestrating tight schedules and controlling costs. Your end users, however, often have a different set of concerns.

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Marketing-Led COVID-19 Growth Strategies: 2022 and Beyond

More than two years in, COVID-19 is far from over. Businesses are tasked with beating pre-COVID numbers, making marketing crucial. This is your time to create brand awareness, bring in the best leads, and play a vital role in new and existing profit.

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Innovation Games: The Bridge To New, Previously Undiscovered Ideas And Innovations

Simon Associates

Can playing games really lead to innovations? Yes, with Innovation Games! Have you ever sat in a staff "ideation" meeting where the purpose was to come up with groundbreaking, business-building, innovative ideas, and no one could come up with anything?

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Lessons Learned by an Early Career Consultant

Tom Spencer

If you are a recent graduate, the consulting industry offers a great way to get a head start in your career, and to hit the ground running from the outset.

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Having Marketing Challenges Suddenly? Help Is Available

Business Consulting Agency

Marketing has gotten so much more complex in comparison to past times. It drastically changes with the Internet. Furthermore, it changes due to online commerce. Then, the recent couple years changed consumer behavior, which impacts marketing again. Marketing is always adjusting to the times.

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What Do You Like About Your Job?

Harvard Business

Ask yourself these three questions to figure it out before you make your next move. Managing yourself Careers Career transitions Digital Article

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The Surprising Effects of Business Vs. Leisure Travel

*Already submitted with the first entry, please contact me if you would like me to write up again.

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Culture Eats Strategy for…an Appetizer

Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC

We’ve all heard Peter Drucker’s saying, “Culture eats strategy for lunch [or breakfast].” I am, of course, not going to disagree with that statement. However, given the work world today, it’s not enough. Culture doesn’t just eat strategy for breakfast or lunch.

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Acing the Fit Interview — Strategy and Approach

Tom Spencer

Interviews at consulting firms are often broken down into 3 segments: Fit Interview (~10 mins) Case Interview (~30 mins) Questions and Answers (~5 mins) While the vast majority of content out there focuses on the case interview, it is worth pointing out that the fit interview should not be overlooked.

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The Applicant Experience – a recruiters guide

The Management Centre

Following on from our 5 Ways to Improve Your Recruitment Process, we asked our latest recruits how they found our process, and what advice they would give to recruiters.

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How to Talk with Your Team About the Elephant in the Room

Harvard Business

A five-step process to discuss problems that feel too threatening, too uncomfortable, or too hidden to bring to the surface. Difficult conversations Managing conflicts Giving feedback Management communication Leading teams Digital Article

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7 Ways to Supercharge Your ABM Strategy with Real-Time Intent

Streaming real-time intent is a homerun for marketing and sales’ account-based marketing (ABM) strategies. With real-time buyer insights, you can be first-in-line to provide solutions and lead better, hyper-personalized conversations.

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Program – Baby Steps

CaseInterview.com

Some goals are overwhelming to the point where you feel frozen and unable to start. This is a sign that the magnitude of the goal is counterproductive. When a CEO is overwhelmed with the task before them, I tell them to break down the problem into smaller “baby” steps.

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Microsoft 365 End of Support for Office 2016/2019 Clients

Kraft Kennedy

Microsoft 365 End of Support for Office 2016/2019 Clients As of October 10, 2023, Microsoft will no longer support Office 2016 and 2019 for connecting to Microsoft 365 cloud services. These services include Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business.

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How to Destroy an Enemy (or Your Business) from the Inside

Organizational Talent Consulting

When you think about outstanding military leaders, commanders like Napoleon Bonaparte and inspiring orators like Winston Churchill might come to mind. These leaders accomplished incredible feats against the odds.

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How a CEO Can Create Psychological Safety in the Room

Harvard Business

Ten strategies to promote a free exchange of ideas. Power and influence Leadership styles Leadership Digital Article

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Digitizing Logistics: Harness the Power of Data in 4 Steps

Entering a new demand gen position in a volatile market is nerve-wracking. In demand generation, data is essential for knowing who you should target and how. In this eBook, you’ll learn how to identify and target your ideal prospects using different types of data.

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345: Diana Wu David—Are You Truly Happy With How You Work, Not Just Where?

On the Brink Podcast

Hear how change is really an opportunity for growth I loved this interview with Diana Wu David from February 2020 so much that I want to share it with you again.

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Overconfidence and AI

Seth Godin Blog

Human beings are often more effective when we’re a bit self-effacing. “I think,” “Perhaps,” or “I might be missing something, but…” are fine ways to give our assertions a chance to be considered.

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The 3 Ps of Pricing

Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

As I’ve been running my ongoing pricing survey , I got to think about ways that I can teach y’all about pricing that will help the concepts stick.

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How Startups Can Land a Second Meeting with a Corporate Partner

Harvard Business

Researchers attended 150 meetings between start-ups and corporations including IBM, Sony, L’Oréal, Toyota, and AstraZeneca. Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurial finance Fundraising Entrepreneurs and founders Scaling entrepreneurial ventures Start-ups Digital Article

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16 Go-to-Market Plays for Your Entire Sales Funnel

After gathering some of the best go-to-market plays from our own B2B sales and marketing pros, we've package them here for you. Try one of these 16 plays in your next salesflow or as inspiration for your next winning sales engagement strategy.

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Learning without training – Books

The Management Centre

We love learning here at =mc, as you would expect! And whilst we spend almost all of our time delivering training, we wholeheartedly believe in learning lots of things in lots of different ways. In this blog we take a look at how to learn from reading, and have book recommendations for you. There are thousands of management and leadership books, on all kinds of topics. Reading new ideas and perspectives can be both challenging and enjoyable.

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Grandiosity as a form of hiding

Seth Godin Blog

A business that says its mission is to, “reinvent local commerce to better serve our customers and neighborhoods,” can spend a lot of time doing not much of anything before they realize that they’re not actually creating value.

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How to Succeed With Digital Transformation Projects

Comatch

The digital wave has impacted every possible industry and stirred ripples across the globe. Terms like artificial intelligence and machine learning are common vocabulary and we are now creating digital avatars of ourselves in the metaverse.

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