David A Fields
OCTOBER 8, 2014
'Let’s make a Yay and Blech list. Raisins, yay; unsweetened cranberries, blech. Netting big dollars on a project, yay. Paying taxes on big dollars, blech. Playing hockey with other old men, yay; Being humiliated on the ice by 25-year olds, less yay. Fielding out-of-the-blue requests for projects, yay; outbound calling to replenish the pipeline, blech.
Tom Spencer
OCTOBER 5, 2014
'“The paradox of our time in history is that. we have taller buildings but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time; we have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgement; more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.
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Women in Consulting
OCTOBER 9, 2014
'By: Amy Smith. Women In Consulting recently announced the results of its 13th Annual Consulting Best Practices and Compensation Study at our September general meeting. The overarching theme was that consultants and small business owners are reporting that their businesses are “the same, but better.” This means that while revenues are flat, respondent are seeing deeper relationships and deeper pockets.
Melissa Agnes
OCTOBER 6, 2014
'The growing demand for immediate and real-time communication and updates in a crisis can be overwhelming. This overwhelming pressure can lead to mistakes, or worse, unethical decisions. So how can you meet this demand while not compromising – but rather enhancing – your crisis management? Read on to find out… First thing’s first, what does “real-time communication” mean?
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David A Fields
OCTOBER 8, 2014
'A question I was asked: What if you have a forty-five-minute minute meeting with a prospect and she spends the whole time talking about her situation and she never get to other parts of the Context Discussion like outcomes, metrics, and parameters? What would your suggestion be to this consultant? What has worked for you? Post your suggestion by using the ‘Leave a Comment’ box below.
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Chad Barr
OCTOBER 8, 2014
This week’s reflection point: How do you increase your reach and influence and become a game changer? The best way to achieve this is to publish prolifically and provocatively. This will reduce the chance of you sounding like everyone else, it will help stimulate and generate new ideas and increase the overall interest in you. Take a look at the visual below: I broke it down into four quadrants: Invisible — This means that you don’t publish much and you are not provocative, which mak
Melissa Agnes
OCTOBER 5, 2014
'Welcome to episode #018 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and Jean-Michel Ghoussoub. Everybody’s always talking about transparency. We always hear things like: You need to be transparent in the way you communicate with your stakeholders, both internal and external – both in and out of a crisis. And though this statement is very true, what does it actually mean?
David A Fields
OCTOBER 10, 2014
'A question I was asked: Some sales programs recommend that you don’t stop reaching out without first saying some sort of goodbye. What do you think of this approach? Should you just keep calling and calling endlessly or is it better to stop calling and just go away? What would your suggestion be to this consultant? What has worked for you? Post your suggestion by using the ‘Leave a Comment’ box below.
MishTalk
OCTOBER 9, 2014
'Where in the world can police confiscate your money and your property, not charge you with any crime, then tell you there is absolutely nothing you can do about it? The answer, which you may not have known (but might have guessed from the title), is none other than the USA, where people mistakenly presume the law says innocent until proven guilty. Legalized Robbery In a report called Stop and Seize , the Washington Post details how aggressive police take hundreds of millions of dollars from mot
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Strategy+Business
OCTOBER 9, 2014
'Companies that realize the power of their capabilities can shape how industries evolve. For more insights, read " The New Supercompetitors.
Melissa Agnes
OCTOBER 8, 2014
'By Tony Jaques. When a crisis event is “over” it is very natural to focus on operational recovery and business continuity. But the reality is that the aftershocks from a crisis can be more devastating and costly to the organization than the original crisis itself. This is what the Dutch management experts, Paul ‘t Hart and Arjen Boin, have called “the crisis after the crisis.”.
David A Fields
OCTOBER 6, 2014
'A question I was asked: Recently, I was with a prospect and going through the Context Discussion, but the prospect was getting impatient with all the questions. He just wanted to talk about my solution and approach. What should I have done? What would your suggestion be to this consultant? What has worked for you? Post your suggestion by using the ‘Leave a Comment’ box below.
MishTalk
OCTOBER 6, 2014
'We momentarily interrupt economic news with some celestial news that may be of interest to millions, including some of my readership. Wednesday morning, in the early AM, a full lunar eclipse will turn the moon red. The lunar eclipse will be visible over much of the US, especially the West. Accuweather has some details in Lunar Eclipse to Veil Moon Red in Predawn Hours of Wednesday "It''s not that often that we get a total eclipse from the United States; sometimes we go years between getting the
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Emerson Consulting Group
OCTOBER 7, 2014
A 36,000% ROI Suggests It Can. By Ken Lizotte CMC, Chief Imaginative Officer, emersongroup. Excerpted from The Expert’s Edge: Become the Go-To Authority People Turn To Every Time (McGraw-Hill). Publishing books and articles can often lead to a significant and direct new-client return on investment. But new business does not always come wrapped up in a neat, predictable quid pro quo, i.e., you publish an article and then voila!
Melissa Agnes
OCTOBER 10, 2014
'Welcome to this week’s #CrisisRoundup! This week, I was in L.A. having a blast putting City officials through a simulated earthquake exercise. As you can imagine, it was an amazing experience to be surrounded with such inspiring people doing important work. I’ll be sharing more of my experience with you in the coming days – so stay tuned if you’re interested in hearing more!
Strategy+Business
OCTOBER 9, 2014
'Modern Mercenary is a fascinating look at the free market for force and the companies that profit from it.
MishTalk
OCTOBER 4, 2014
'In response to Reader Question on a Credit-Based Society: Can Interest Ever Be Repaid? I received an email from reader Keith Weiner at Monetary Metals. Keith writes Hi Mish, I hope all is well. I liked your reply to the reader question. I think it boils down to one thing. With fiat money, there is no extinguisher of debt. Debts are paid using dollars, but the dollar is itself a debt.
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Seth Godin Blog
OCTOBER 10, 2014
'One list highlights the lucky breaks, the advantages, the good feedback, your trusted network. It talks about the accident of being born in the right time and the right place, your health, your freedom. It features your education, your connection to the marketplace and just about every nice thing someone has said about you in the last week or month.
1 to 1
OCTOBER 6, 2014
'Creating the perfect customer experience is a challenge for many of us. In recent years, we''ve seen many customer experience blunders. J.C. Penney, for instance, stands out as one of the most well known when it overhauled its operations without asking many customers what they wanted. The company changed the layout of nearly every store, overwhelming and losing long-time customers resulting in a 25 percent sales loss in one year.
Strategy+Business
OCTOBER 6, 2014
'Here are 11 tips to encourage employees to build better ideas.
MishTalk
OCTOBER 7, 2014
'Inquiring minds may be interested in a set of charts that show trends in hours worked. The charts are as of the latest job numbers from Friday, October 3, 2014. Index of Aggregate Hours All Private Employees The index of aggregate weekly hours of all employees is at a new all-time high. The data only goes back to 2007 so let''s also take a look at hours worked by production and monsupervisory employees.
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Seth Godin Blog
OCTOBER 7, 2014
'It''s tempting to fall into the trap of believing that being good at math is a genetic predisposition, as it lets us off the hook. The truth is, with few rare exceptions, all of us are capable of being good at math. I''ll grant you that it might take a gift to be great at math, but if you''re not good at math, it''s not because of your genes.
Melissa Agnes
OCTOBER 10, 2014
Welcome to this week’s #CrisisRoundup! This week, I was in L.A. having a blast putting City officials through a simulated earthquake exercise. As you can imagine, it was an amazing experience to be surrounded with such inspiring people doing important work. I’ll be sharing more of my experience with you in the coming days – so stay tuned if you’re interested in hearing more!
Chad Barr
OCTOBER 6, 2014
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MishTalk
OCTOBER 5, 2014
'Inquiring minds may be interested in the latest events in Europe on an otherwise slow news weekend. Via translation from El Singular, 800 Towns in Catalonia Openly Pledge Support for Independence Referendum. This morning, more than 800 mayors delivered to Catalan president Mas certificates in support of the November 9 referendum for Independence. The mayors represent 96% of the Catalan municipalities.
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