Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC

APRIL 20, 2025

Two prospective strategic planning clients reached out to me this past week.

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Development 55

Harvard Business

APRIL 23, 2025

To thrive in an increasingly complex world, leaders will need to develop seemingly contradictory skill sets. Leadership Digital Article

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Development Leadership 58

Jerry Fletcher

APRIL 17, 2025

Two word darlings. Brand. Disruption. Either gets attention in and of itself. Together they become hard to look away from. Do conditions make it harder to be at successful at either? Or Both?

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Marketing Automotive Consulting Agile 52

Management and IT Consulting

APRIL 21, 2025

How companies can use Just-in-Time Resourcing® (JITR) to deliver consistent project excellence

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Every sales forecasting model has a different strength and predictability method. It’s recommended to test out which one is best for your team. This way, you’ll be able to further enhance – and optimize – your newly-developed pipeline. Your future sales forecast? Sunny skies (and success) are just ahead!

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David A Fields

APRIL 20, 2025

Wouldn’t it be great to land a massive, game-changing new project for your consulting firm? Maybe. However, huge assignments have equally huge downsides, and there’s a better way to grow your consulting firm.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 22, 2025

We have all seen aspirational signs in the breakroom, "Honesty, Kindness, Integrity." While these are excellent personal values, they don't translate into measurable behaviors or tools used at the executive level in daily decision-making.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 18, 2025

The greatest accomplishments will follow a focused person. Our society rewards specialists more than generalists, and the way to become a specialist is to remain focused on one area for a prolonged period. At all stages of our life there are times to explore and times to focus.

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Sports Resumes Consulting Case Interview 85

McKinsey & Company

APRIL 22, 2025

Analysis of more than 200 corporate business builds shows what success looks like. Digital Insights Digital strategy and organization Growth

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Analysis How To Strategy Strategy 104

The More Clients Blog

APRIL 19, 2025

Someone in my current Marketing Action Group shared this: “I believe that bringing all my marketing into alignment is critical at this point. Would this be correct?”. Marketing alignment would be having a marketing message, marketing materials, website, presentation, etc.

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B2B Marketing Tools Sales 62

Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Sales enablement is the strategic process of providing sales teams with the content, guidance, and mentorship needed to engage targeted buyers. It’s all about equipping sales professionals with the tools they need to put their best-selling foot forward. And if sales teams want to continuously sell better -- and faster -- their sales enablement process must have a game-winning strategy. It's time for you to start selling smarter - and hitting your sales number - with the best B2B database in the market. Get started today.

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On the Brink

APRIL 22, 2025

In my new book , " Rethink: Smashing The Myths of Women in Business ," I expose many of the myths that for centuries have held women back from achieving what they knew they could.

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Leadership 59

Tom Spencer

APRIL 18, 2025

In nearly every consulting firm, sooner or later you’ll have to prioritize a specialty to formally begin establishing a focus area for your consulting career. Just to be clear, by specialty, I mean a specifically defined industry (e.g. industrials, pharma, etc.) or functional area (e.g.

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McKinsey & Company

APRIL 22, 2025

A detailed benchmark analysis of the batteries of Chinese battery-electric vehicles reveals how differences in battery-cell and battery-pack design affect performance. Automotive & Assembly Insights Energy, Resources & Materials Automotive

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Benchmarking Analysis Automotive Energy 103

Brimstone Consulting

APRIL 19, 2025

Even a few minutes of mindfulness practice daily allows the mind to rest, leaving us refreshed and able to lead with more energy, clarity, and focus. Many of us have experienced a quiet mind at some moment or another.

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Energy Organizational Development Training Training 59

Advertiser: ZoomInfo

This eBook highlights best practices for developing a pipeline management process that helps sales leaders and their team C.L.O.S.E (you’ll see what we mean in this eBook) more revenue through data-driven prospecting, stage analysis, and subsequent sales enablement.

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The Source

APRIL 19, 2025

It can be hard to cast our minds back to the pre-pandemic world, but sometimes it’s worth doing so. In 2019, transformation—especially digital transformation—had been the overarching source of growth for the consulting industry for 3-4 years.

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On the Brink Podcast

APRIL 19, 2025

Learn how you can become a more dynamic, effective leader. Alain Hunkins is the author of a new book, " Cracking the Leadership Code: Three Secrets to Building Strong Leaders, " which offers a very impactful way to develop leaders. As you know, I direct two leadership academies for two clients.

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Leadership Development Culture 56

McKinsey & Company

APRIL 22, 2025

Dogged persistence and nimble execution underscore a set of proven ground rules for growth. Marketing & Sales Insights Digital marketing Growth Innovation

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Marketing Sales 102

Kai Davis

APRIL 23, 2025

Today we’re going to look at a short video reviewing the homepage of a great web design and development shop: PixelHero ( [link] ). I came across their website while researching an unrelated project and they make a great example for a Website Review. On the surface, PixelHero’s homepage is great.

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Video Research Examples Development 52

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Businesses are laying off workers, shutting their doors (some permanently), and struggling to react to the radical destruction that coronavirus (COVID-19) is doing to our society and communities. However, there’s no team better suited to lead that charge than the marketing department.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

APRIL 21, 2025

Brett Putter is the CEO of CultureGene, a culture development platform that helps companies transition effectively to remote work. As a passionate student of culture and an expert on culture, Brett spends his days with leaders defining, embedding and managing culture.

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Culture Development Company Management 52

Think Customers

APRIL 20, 2025

A good salesperson doesn’t settle on satisfactory, they’re always on the lookout for new challenges and insights.

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McKinsey & Company

APRIL 20, 2025

In her new book, Karin M. Reed dives into our sudden shift to virtual meetings—and how to make the most of them. McKinsey on Books

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Kai Davis

APRIL 21, 2025

Your homepage has a vital job. It’s the face and salesperson for your website, your services, and your business. A majority of your visitors are going to land on the homepage, so you want to check regularly: Is your homepage doing its job well? Could it be doing a better job?

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Recent digital transformation has shifted the B2B landscape by ushering in the era of buyer empowerment. With more access to user reviews, analyst opinion, and industry research, decision-makers are more informed than ever while navigating what is now known as the “buyer’s journey.”

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

APRIL 19, 2025

As the pandemic continues to bring about new lockdowns and restrictive measure, many organizations are left scrambling to stay afloat. As it's been more than one year since the pandemic started, many simply didn't plan for this.

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Training Training 52

Harvard Business

APRIL 23, 2025

Researchers found educationally diverse teams perform better, but adding MBAs to the mix has both negative and positive effects. Entrepreneurship Product development Leading teams Digital Article

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Education Research Productivity Development 58

McKinsey & Company

APRIL 19, 2025

Learning can be honed through practice. Here’s an effective strategy to continually learn, grow, and achieve development goals. Insights from McKinsey Accelerate Talent Leadership Innovation Capability building Human resources Personal effectiveness Behavioral strategy

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Kai Davis

APRIL 20, 2025

Happy Holiday! Today you can claim a 20% discount on a selection of my products: Learn how to start selling strategy as a service with Quick Start Roadmapping. Normally $99, you save $20) [link].

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

As data continues to play a starring role in today’s B2B organizations, both marketing and sales operations professionals are poised to solidify their place as critical revenue drivers. In particular, the evolution of the Marketing Operations (Ops) role has created a new standard in marketing and has become a vital component of an organization’s success.

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Martinka Consulting

APRIL 21, 2025

The New York Times reported on a “little-noticed court ruling in December (2020).” The ruling was against the former board members of the Jones Group, an ownership group of apparel brands including Gloria Vanderbilt, Anne Klein and Nine West. In 2014 the Jones Group sold to Sycamore Partners in a highly (one might say overly) leveraged deal. The court ruled the “officers and directors had better think twice before agreeing” to deals with this type of structure.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 21, 2025

Researchers worked with a law firm to make two simple changes to their process. A year later, they saw dramatic improvements. Assessing performance Gender Race Diversity Talent management Digital Article

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Research Company Talent Management 58

McKinsey & Company

APRIL 21, 2025

Better, faster product-development decisions have never been more critical. New techniques can provide quicker, deeper insights, at scale across an entire product portfolio. Insights on Operations Operations

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