David A Fields
JANUARY 14, 2025
You know a rain barrel full of reasons why your consulting firm is better than other firms that do what you do. Among the reasons, of course, is you. Your experience and ideas and unique perspective. Hence, when Bethany Buttonwerk asked you why her company should work with your consulting firm instead of others shes … Continued The post The Right Response to “What Makes Your Consulting Firm Better?
Consulting Success
JANUARY 17, 2025
Picture this: Miami, April 2024 at our Consulting Success mastermind event. A room full of consultants just like you, each nursing their own private doubts about what’s truly possible for their businesses. As the ocean breeze carried whispers of potential through our sessions windows, we uncovered a powerful lesson… The ceiling on your success isn’t.
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Harvard Business
JANUARY 16, 2025
Companies often undertake investments or make decisions that slowly erode their original unique strategy or dilute the sharp boundaries that gave the firm its original clear identity. This happens because its not always clear to decision makers that the decision will dilute the core differentiation, there are many decisions that combine to dilute the differentiation, and managers are often motivated by short-term incentives to look for growth and profit opportunities.
Halo Psych
JANUARY 13, 2025
12 minute read Whether youve already set some goals for 2025, or youre still thinking about it give yourself the best chance of success by tapping into what psychology and behavioural science tells us. Create an action plan and make it as vivid and concrete as possible Research suggests that vowing to achieve a goal doesnt work. What works is making a vivid, concrete plan.
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Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.
LSA Global
JANUARY 14, 2025
Redwood Shores, CA LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a highly customized 1×1 Intensive Leadership Coaching for a Director that needed to elevate individual and team performance.
Management Consulting Connection brings together the best content for management consulting professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Harvard Business
JANUARY 16, 2025
What are the right things to do or say when your colleague loses a home in a disaster? You may worry about having the right words, but staying silent leaves a void. While theres no perfect answer every time, the authors, both of whom have experienced catastrophic damage and home loss, offer four recommendations: 1) Do reach out but dont expect a response; 2) Do offer direct help and expertise; 3) Do you research on ways to donate; and 4) Dont forget them in a month or even a year.
Effective Managers
JANUARY 15, 2025
How Defining Clear Roles and Accountabilities Enhances Organizational Performance The foundations of managerial accountability are crucial for organizational success, which is increasingly driven by swift decision-making and effective execution. The concept of managerial accountability stands out as a critical pillar for high-performing organizations.
Clarity Consultants
JANUARY 13, 2025
AI isnt just the future of L&D; its the present. Imagine having a tireless assistant who helps brainstorm ideas, create visuals, and analyze data while letting you focus on the bigger picture. With AI , this is not a far-off dream but a reality that can elevate how you work, create, and inspire. No more staring at a blank screen, trying to find the perfect words.
MishTalk
JANUARY 16, 2025
Retail sales rose 0.4 percent in December. Adjusted for Inflation, sales rose 0.1 percent.
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.
Harvard Business
JANUARY 15, 2025
AI agent autonomy is a conundrum. In many cases, supervision is needed in the form of a human in the loop to avoid disaster. Yet, you lose productivity gains if you impose excessive supervision on your agent. Too little latitude, and the agents capabilities are constrained to answering simple questions. Too much autonomy, and brand, reputation, customer relationships, and even financial stability are at risk.
Seth Godin Blog
JANUARY 16, 2025
Process is the investment we make in inefficiency now to prevent errors from costing us later. Jet airlines are the safest form of travel ever created, largely because of the inefficient process that we put in place. They’re over tested and over staffed, with checklists and feedback loops in place to ensure that errors dont occur. It would be way less costly if one person simply jumped onto the plane with you and took off–less costly, but less reliable as well.
LSA Global
JANUARY 13, 2025
Investing in Your Leadership Pipeline We know that investing in your leadership pipeline matters. According to research by Zenger Folkman, great leaders deliver more than double the value of poor and average leaders. Yet, DDIs latest Global Leadership Forecast report finds that only 11% of organizations have a strong or very strong leadership bench.
MishTalk
JANUARY 15, 2025
By many measures the price of food is on the rise. Let’s discuss some charts.
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Harvard Business
JANUARY 17, 2025
In the age of generative artificial intelligence, human creativity matters more than ever. Indeed, most people in business agree that unlocking creativity is critical to economic growth and valuable to society. Yet research shows that only one in four feel they are living up to their own creative potential. So how do you jumpstart your own and your teams creativity?
Chad Barr
JANUARY 15, 2025
The future is being written before our eyes, and the latest Future of Jobs Report 2025 by the World Economic Forum is a beacon of insight for navigating the shifting sands of the global workforce. With its detailed analysis of job trends, this 289-page report highlights opportunities and challenges that are shaping industries worldwide. But here’s the exciting part: while flipping through its pages, one chart on page 19 caught my attention— Fastest-Growing and Fastest-Declining Jobs,
Harmonious Workplaces
JANUARY 17, 2025
Download a printable PDF file. Kat: Shermie, I need you to hire me another gerbil for the production line. Shermie: Uh, Kat, this is the third one this week. Kat: I know. I just cant seem to retain workers. Kat: Coincidentally, I forgot my lunch for the last three days. Shermie: Well, theres a new […] The post Shermie Cartoon: Replacement Worker Request appeared first on Harmonious Workplaces.
MishTalk
JANUARY 17, 2025
The number of housing units under construction is collapsing. Units completed for sale has peaked. What’s ahead?
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Savings Consultants are needed in today’s market more than ever. With an increase in expenses, businesses are looking for opportunities to save. Often unknown to businesses are savings in expense reduction, specialized tax savings, specialized savings including medical underpayments, health benefits cost reduction, zero cost processing, and more. Blue Coast Savings, with over 20 years in business, assists Savings Consultants in helping these companies move toward more profitable businesses.
Harvard Business
JANUARY 14, 2025
But replacing U.S. workers with foreign talent isn’t as easy as supplying them with ChatGPT.
Seth Godin Blog
JANUARY 17, 2025
Freedom is something we desire. The freedom to choose, to speak up, to produce, to follow our passions and our dreams. And organizations in search of efficiency, shortcuts or profits often argue for freedom as well. The freedom to organize their production and to go to market without regulation or hassle. Our actions, though, have consequences. That power plant might be venting steam into the river that millions depend on.
Harmonious Workplaces
JANUARY 17, 2025
Download a printable PDF file. Kat: Hermie, I need you to hire me another gerbil for the production line. Hermie: Uh, Kat, this is the third one this week. Kat: I know. I just cant seem to retain workers. Kat: Coincidentally, I forgot my lunch for the last three days. Hermie: Well, theres a new […] The post Hermie Cartoon: Replacement Worker Request appeared first on Harmonious Workplaces.
MishTalk
JANUARY 13, 2025
China’s exports surge while imports stagnate. Is global retaliation coming?
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Harvard Business
JANUARY 15, 2025
Tips for assigning the right projects and helping them get the recognition they deserve.
The Management Centre
JANUARY 16, 2025
In this interview, we meet Charlotte Pritchard, Senior Learning & Development Specialist at Cancer Research UK and find out how her team have been supporting new and aspiring managers in their development. Cancer Research UK is the largest independent cancer research organisation in the world, focusing on research and information to save lives. No small undertaking!
Harmonious Workplaces
JANUARY 11, 2025
Download a printable PDF. Gerbil: *Sigh* I feel I failed the test I just took for this job. Hermie: Oh, dont worry. Its a personality test you simply cant fail it. Its less of a test and more of an assessment to let us know how you think and act at work. Gerbil: Whew! […] The post Hermie Cartoon: Test Failure appeared first on Harmonious Workplaces.
MishTalk
JANUARY 14, 2025
Deaths are expected to exceed births within a decade.
Speaker: Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader
In today’s competitive market, pricing is more than just a number — it’s the cornerstone of profitability. The right pricing strategy ensures that you capture the true value of your offering, paving the way for sustainable growth and long-term success. Join Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader, in this exclusive session where he will explore how a well-crafted pricing approach balances customer perception with business objectives, creating a powerful tool for securing both competitive advantage a
Harvard Business
JANUARY 17, 2025
These five actions can help you create and implement rituals that improve engagement and motivation.
Seth Godin Blog
JANUARY 11, 2025
Almost all car crashes would be avoided if the driver were just going a bit slower. (That’s why it’s more accurate to call them “crashes” and not “accidents.”) That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have bold plans. That’s essential. It’s the last-second shortcuts that get us into trouble. Hurry, but don’t rush.
Harmonious Workplaces
JANUARY 11, 2025
Welcome to 2025! In this episode of the Harmonious Workplaces podcast, Rich Cruz, Sharyl Volpe, and Ben Kleinman discuss key trends and predictions for the workplace in the new year. They explore a range of topics, from the renewed focus on teamwork to the impact of AI, and the ongoing challenges for HR and change […] The post Ep 44: Organization Change Trends and Predictions for 2025 appeared first on Harmonious Workplaces.
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