David A Fields
OCTOBER 31, 2017
In consulting, the size of your network matters. Whether you’re making rain for a $40k startup or a $40m boutique consulting firm, one of your challenges is increasing your pool of prospects—contacts who could become lucrative, long-term clients.
Consulting Success
OCTOBER 30, 2017
Pricing projects based on the value they deliver — instead of the time you spend on them — will allow you to increase your fees. Description: Adam started out as an electrical apprentice while in college pursuing an electrical engineering degree. After 20 years in construction management, he decided to make the leap to consulting, as a way to give back to the construction and contracting community.
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Management Consulted
OCTOBER 29, 2017
We have many of you ask us what it’s like to be a woman in consulting. How is the firm culture? Is there time to have a family and rise up the ranks inside a top firm? Today, Jenny Rae … Continued. The post Two Current Women Entrepreneurs talk about their experience as Women in Consulting appeared first on Management Consulted.
Tom Spencer
OCTOBER 28, 2017
‘Big data’ is a term that describes the vast amounts information being collected and processed as the world’s technological prowess grows at an astonishing rate. What differentiates big data from regular old data is the three v’s, velocity, variety, and volume. Velocity describes the speed at which the information is initially received, transferred, and processed into a usable form for analysis.
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Tsavo Neal
NOVEMBER 2, 2017
In this video, you’ll learn how to use your lead magnet to generate leads using a “bar.” The website example used in this video is Markovitz Consulting. [ Slides ] Transcript. Welcome to Consulting Website Design Episode 03: Low Hanging Fruit. In this video, we’re looking at the website of a consultant named Daniel Markovitz of Markovitz Consulting.
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Strategy+Business
OCTOBER 29, 2017
When you have a wicked problem, where there is no obvious solution, challenge-driven leadership may work. The approach, pioneered at technology-oriented institutions such as MIT, brings together people with deep expertise, without the trappings of leadership, to handle challenges they find interesting.
Actionable
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
Courage and faith are required of the leader, because once you commit to crossing the cultural Rubicon, there is no turning back. But you won't want to. The post Crossing the Cultural Rubicon appeared first on Actionable.co.
Tsavo Neal
OCTOBER 31, 2017
Michael Zipursky is the founder and CEO of ConsultingSuccess.com , where he helps consultants attract more clients, increase their fees, and structure their consulting business for success. His latest book, The Elite Consulting Mind: 16 Proven Mindsets to Attract More Clients, Increase Your Income and Achieve Meaningful Success is a treasure-trove of information on how to build a successful consulting business.
Chad Barr
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
While checking out the profiles of individuals on various social media platforms, I’ve concluded that many of these people are either naïve or clueless about the impact of their digital identities and the lifestyle they reveal. I see silly photos of wild parties, drunken moments, images of injured body parts, pontification on subjects of which they are ignorant, boasting of the places they’ve visited, constantly quoting others, participating in absurd arguments, trolling the web, and
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Consultants' Consultant
NOVEMBER 2, 2017
Consultants Consultant: Managing people is not easy. So I’ve been gathering some great ideas for you. Management Secrets: Core Beliefs of Great Bosses outlines some important concepts (including “my employees are my peers, not my children”). And here’s another: stop asking your direct reports “How can I help you?” Here’s why.
Actionable
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
Courage and faith are required of the leader, because once you commit to crossing the cultural Rubicon, there is no turning back. But you won't want to. The post Crossing the Cultural Rubicon appeared first on Actionable.co.
Strategy+Business
OCTOBER 31, 2017
Those who lead and advise companies on their digital transformation should rely more on imagination and less on experience.
Seth Godin Blog
OCTOBER 29, 2017
It's rampant. The big reason is that we're all impostors. You're not imaging that you're an impostor, it's likely that you are one. Everyone who is doing important work is working on something that might not work. And it's extremely likely that they're also not the very best qualified person on the planet to be doing that work. How could it be any other way?
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Consultants' Consultant
OCTOBER 31, 2017
Consultants Consultant: Men and women are different. We know that. But what are the blind spots? The post Gender Politics appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 2, 2017
Skeezer/Getty Images. Most companies have articulated their purpose — the reason they exist. But very few have made that purpose a reality for their organizations. Consider Nokia. Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance.
Strategy+Business
OCTOBER 30, 2017
To have the right talent to thrive in the future, companies need to start categorizing and analyzing the skills present in their organization today.
Seth Godin Blog
NOVEMBER 3, 2017
If you want to raise the standards of any group, improving the top of the heap isn't nearly as effective as focusing your effort on the base instead. Simple example: Getting a Prius to go from 50 miles per gallon to 55 miles per gallon isn't nearly as important as getting SUVs to go from 10 miles per gallon to 15. There are two reasons for this. The first is that there are a lot more SUVs than Priuses.
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Johanna Rothman
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
I have finally finished recording the videos for my writing workshops. See. Writing Non-Fiction Workshop 1: Enhance Your Business and Reputation (Q1 session starts Jan 2018). Writing Non-Fiction Workshop 2: Secrets of Successful Non-Fiction Writers (Q1 Session starts Jan 2018). The first workshop is about building a habit of writing. If you want to help people see the value in your writing, this workshop will help you express it.
Martinka Consulting
NOVEMBER 2, 2017
At the annual conference for the Society for the Advancement of Consulting I once again heard about how speed matters, i.e. have urgency. Also, how in this fast-moving world 6-12 months is a long time (meaning it’s ridiculous to have a five-year plan and projections), and why it benefits the client to get things done sooner versus later. Well, let’s tell that to the government.
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
Eric Frommelt/Getty Images. Diabetes is one of the most pervasive and expensive chronic diseases: It affects an estimated 30.3 million people in the United States and costs a staggering $245 billion per year to treat. In addition there are 84.1 million adults in the United States with high blood sugar levels in danger of developing type 2 diabetes. It is widely acknowledged that the most effective method of treating these prediabetics so they don’t become full-fledged diabetics is diabetes
Seth Godin Blog
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
Could be. That you don't know what needs to be done. That you don't know how to do what needs to be done. That you're afraid to do what needs to be done. It's frustrating. We want to move up, we want our project to make more of an impact, we want to ship--but the undone work hangs over us. If you care enough, the path forward is clear, isn't it?
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Case studies are proof of successful client relations and a verifiable product or service. They persuade buyers by highlighting your customers' experiences with your company and its solution. In sales, case studies are crucial pieces of content that can be tailored to prospects' pain points and used throughout the buyer's journey. In marketing, case studies are versatile assets for generating business, providing reusable elements for ad and social media content, website material, and marketing c
Strategy+Business
OCTOBER 29, 2017
The true test of a strategic leader is being able to recognize, and having the courage to eradicate, subtle problematic ideas.
Martinka Consulting
NOVEMBER 2, 2017
In my upcoming book, Growth By Acquisition Makes Dollars & Sense , I end each chapter with a short story about a client who grew their company by buying another one (or more than one). Here’s one of those stories. John Hoyt is the founder and CEO of Picture Source NW, in Seattle www.picture-source.com , one of the nation’s leading providers of art for residential and commercial customers.
LSA Global
NOVEMBER 3, 2017
Talent Management Questions to Test If You are On the Right Track. If you truly want to attract, develop, engage and retain a high performing workforce, you have to break through talent management barriers – outmoded ways of thinking about talent in old-fashioned and ineffective ways. The Goal of Talent Management. Talent management is no longer about providing isolated and unconnected recruiting, training, employee relations and retention programs.
Seth Godin Blog
OCTOBER 30, 2017
Sometimes, when we're lost, we refuse a map, even when offered. Because the map reminds us that we made a mistake. That we were wrong. But without a map, we're not just wrong, we're also still lost. A map doesn't automatically get you home, but it will probably make you less lost. (When dealing with the unknown, it's difficult to admit that there might not be a map.
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