Consulting Matters

AUGUST 8, 2024

It’s hard to believe it, but I’ve had my own consulting and coaching business for almost 15 years! Along the way, I have had my successes…and failures. In this post and Enough Already podcast episode, I’m sharing with you my 5 biggest mistakes that I’ve made over the past 15 years with the hope you’ll learn from me, avoid my mistakes, and build a thriving consulting or coaching business.

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David A Fields

AUGUST 6, 2024

Your consulting firm’s great work generates repeat clients and, ideally, word-of-mouth referrals to new clients. However, if you want more inbound inquiries from prospects, it’s time to power up your consulting firm’s marketing efforts. Most consulting firms’ marketing is of the 120-volt variety: enough power to keep the lights on (except in Europe), but not … Continued The post How to Make Your Consulting Firm’s Marketing Vastly More Effective appeared first

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Consulting Success

AUGUST 5, 2024

[podcast_headshot url=”/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Boaz-Ashkenazy.jpeg”] Ever wonder what it would be like to leave a prestigious corporate role and head off to start your own venture? Today’s guest, Boaz Ashkenazy, did just that. He left his executive position at Meta to co-found Simply Augmented, an AI consultancy specializing in solving complex problems using generative AI.

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Girard Training Solutions

AUGUST 8, 2024

Understanding how we learn and process information can significantly enhance our ability to communicate and work effectively with others. The VARK model, developed by Neil Fleming in 1987, offers a practical approach to identifying individual learning styles. Unlike other learning style inventories that consider numerous components, such as personality, motivation, social preferences, and physical environments , VARK focuses on sensory modalities.

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Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker

Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.

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Leadership Vision Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2024

Have you ever wondered what sets great leaders apart during tough times? In this episode, we discuss the significance of meaningful relationships, places of peace, and intentional practices in maintaining a leader's mental and emotional health. These three elements help leaders stay centered, navigate challenges with resilience, and maintain a balanced perspective.

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Clarity Consultants

AUGUST 7, 2024

Embracing the Human Element in an AI-Driven World In this discussion, we explored the intricate balance between leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and maintaining the human touch in leadership. While AI offers unparalleled efficiency and data-driven insights, it is human communication that bridges cultural gaps, fosters trust, and drives efficient results across teams.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 4, 2024

The Nikkei is down 13.5% in the last 5 days. Bitcoin is down 7% today and 23 percent in the last week. 18-year high margin positions hitting everything but gold.

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Buzzsprout

AUGUST 8, 2024

Adding music and effects is a great way to polish you podcast, but using illegal music can quickly get you booted off major directories. In this blog, we share the best podcast music resources, and debunk common about using copyrighted content. What kind of podcast music can you use? The vast majority of music is subject to copyright. Artists want to protect their music and get paid when it's used.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 5, 2024

Many efforts to build an AI ethics program miss an important fact: ethics differ from one cultural context to the next. Ideas about right and wrong in one culture may not translate to a fundamentally different context, and even when there is alignment, there may well be important differences in the ethical reasoning at work — cultural norms, religious tradition, etc. — that need to be taken into account.

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Consultants Mind

AUGUST 3, 2024

GenAI is kinda amazing If you haven’t spent an hour with Chat GPT or a LLM (Lamda, Bard etc), you’ve been missing out. It’s a super easy, personable chat friend, who is 100% interested in what you are. They are like super-smart, ivy-league interns who keep studying every month. They keep track of what you said, following the line of conversation, and get better over time.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 8, 2024

Chevron is doing what every sensible CA-based company should do, if possible, leave the state. But what about the big oil lawsuit?

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LSA Global

AUGUST 5, 2024

The Top 7 Tips to Get Honest Strategy Feedback from Employees: A Guide for Leaders We know from our organizational alignment research that active involvement in the strategy design process fosters a sense of ownership and involvement. When it comes to strategic buy-in and commitment, honest strategy feedback from employees is more than just a nice-to-have — it is a necessity to set up strategy execution up for success.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 5, 2024

All careers have highs and lows, and scope reductions can be particularly challenging. You may feel like immediately handing in your resignation or retreating and disengaging. It’s natural, but neither response is helpful. Your manager and coworkers are watching how you respond, making it even more critical to approach this difficult situation with composure and pragmatism.

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Harmonious Workplaces

AUGUST 9, 2024

Antiquated Hiring Philosophy May Hamper Growth Recently, I applied and interviewed for an open executive position at a well-established company in the construction industry. Despite its success and expansion, my experience with their hiring process raised serious concerns. After nearly two months of waiting for my first interview and being told the hiring decision wouldn’t […] The post Slow to Hire, Quick to Fire… BS appeared first on Harmonious Workplaces.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 4, 2024

The “Magnificent 7” are TSLA, AAPL, META, GOOG, MSFT, AMZN, NVDA. Buy and hold forever?

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Progressus

AUGUST 9, 2024

The sheer volume of data in a modern business is overwhelming, and the stakes are high. The fear of making the wrong decisions can slow innovation and dampen competitiveness. What if you could clear the fog, light up the path ahead, and move forward with confidence? Here, we set out to decode decision-making with four… The post Decoding Decision-Making: 4 Steps For Moving From Fear to Freedom with Data appeared first on Velosio.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2024

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Harmonious Workplaces

AUGUST 5, 2024

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MishTalk

AUGUST 7, 2024

That’s the claim by several economists on Bloomberg.

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Progressus

AUGUST 8, 2024

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 6, 2024

The Society for Human Resource Management’s decision to remove “equity” from its DEI framework sets a dangerous precedent that flies in the face of decades of research.

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Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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Harmonious Workplaces

AUGUST 8, 2024

How Change Management Will Benefit Your Artificial Intelligence Implementation Generative AI, or genAI, is quickly moving from the bleeding edge of innovation to a proven technology across entire organizations. Just like with any technology rollout, you can improve the likelihood of success by grounding your rollout in time-tested change management principles.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 9, 2024

Greg Ip says the conditions for recession are not in place. I disagree. And I show where and how he went wrong.

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Progressus

AUGUST 8, 2024

Data Challenge A large healthcare enterprise with over 140 on-premises virtual machines (VMs), faced the task of assessing their current workload and migrating it to Azure. The challenge included migrating more than 80 VMs and over 12 terabytes of data within a tight timeline due to office closure and limited employee resources. Maintaining the existing… The post Healthcare Monitoring Solutions Company Reduces Monthly Spend by $18k by Diminishing Virtual Machines and Migrating to Azure wit

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2024

Managers sometimes turn to team-building activities to build connections between colleagues. But which activities and practices would work best for your team? And how can you put them into action most effectively? In this article, the author offers advice and recommendations from three experts. Their activity suggestions are intended to inspire ideas that you can then tailor to your team’s size, sensibilities, and circumstances.

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Chad Barr

AUGUST 7, 2024

In the world of media and communication, soundbites are the golden nuggets that capture attention, convey powerful messages, and leave a lasting impression. Neil deGrasse Tyson, an acclaimed astrophysicist and science communicator, reflecting about dealing with journalists, once said, “Rather than having them soundbite me, give them soundbites they can’t edit.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 3, 2024

Economic data has been weakening for weeks, culminating in a horrible Jobs report on Friday, August 2. US Treasury Yield Changes US Treasury Yield Spreads Daily Steepening and Bigger Inversions?! The long-end of the curve is more inverted (the long end yield minus 3-month yield is increasingly negative), while the long-end vs.

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Progressus

AUGUST 8, 2024

Since Microsoft launched Copilot, its been exciting to see our customers bring AI into their livesboth personal and professionalcreating stunning images, tackling their overflowing inboxes, jump-starting the writing process, catching up on missed meetings, and so much more. With Copilot, everyone has the opportunity to supercharge their creativity and productivity.

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