David A Fields

APRIL 29, 2025

What if youre closing consulting deals, but not enough of them? If a healthy percentage of your consulting firms prospects flow down your pipeline to a signed deal, then your fundamentals are working. But what if youre closing every lead in your business development pipeline, yet you’re still falling short of your consulting revenue target? Robust pipelines … Continued The post How Successful Consulting Firms Attract More Opportunities appeared first on David A.

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Successful Independent Consulting

APRIL 30, 2025

As a consultant, its our job to help clients solve problems and operate at their best. Sometimes this is easy, particularly with process or operational improvements. For example, Decrease product returns by moving the quality checks upstream in the process. However, advice becomes challenging when its more personal, like when a business leader needs to change a behavior or a team member acts inappropriately.

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Clarity Consultants

MAY 1, 2025

Some corporate training programs are beautiful failures. They check all the boxes for compliance-ready, LMS-integrated, and SCORM-compliant but still fall flat regarding what matters: behavior change, learner engagement, and real-world performance. Employees rush through modules, click “Next” until the final quiz, and forget 90% of what they learned by Friday.

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Consulting Success

APRIL 28, 2025

[podcast_headshot url=”[link] How can experience in corporate sales roles and a digital marketing side hustle become the foundation for a thriving 7-figure consulting firm? Phil Risher, founder of Phlash Consulting, shares his unique journey, which included running a personal finance blog, living in a converted school bus, and dramatically boosting a client’s business before launching.

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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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Epicflow

APRIL 30, 2025

Information systems have a determining impact on organizational performance by enhancing overall productivity, profitability, and resilience. Strategic portfolio management software is an indispensable component of these systems. These tools are essential for translating the strategy into action, while their features should guarantee optimal resource allocation and utilization, risk management , and prioritization of projects and tasks.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 30, 2025

Six strategies for mobilizing, engaging, and connecting with others.

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Chad Barr

APRIL 29, 2025

In a single bold internal memo, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke redrew the future of work: “prove that AI can’t do the job before requesting a new hire.” That’s not just a cost-saving directive—it’s a siren for every leader paying attention. The message is clear: AI fluency isn’t optional anymore. It’s essential.

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Epicflow

APRIL 30, 2025

Information systems have a determining impact on organizational performance by enhancing overall productivity, profitability, and resilience. Strategic portfolio management software is an indispensable component of these systems. These tools are essential for translating the strategy into action, while their features should guarantee optimal resource allocation and utilization, risk management , and prioritization of projects and tasks.

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Clarity Consultants

APRIL 26, 2025

Mandatory compliance training often elicits groans from employees. It is typically seen as a chore rather than an opportunity, and many view it as just another task to ‘check off the list.’ Yet, compliance training doesnt have to be a dreaded task. What if, instead of being viewed as a chore, it became an opportunity for real growth, engagement, and practical learning?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 29, 2025

Three perspectives on how the role might evolve.

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Harmonious Workplaces

APRIL 28, 2025

In the 59th episode of the Harmonious Workplaces podcast, hosts Rich Cruz, Sharyl Volpe, and Ben Kleinman engaged in a compelling discussion with Dr. Jonna van Thiel, an expert in […] The post Ep. 59: Leading through Uncertainty with Dr Jonna van Thiel appeared first on Harmonious Workplaces.

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MishTalk

APRIL 27, 2025

Orders have been cancelled, but the primary impacts are not felt yet.

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Leadership Vision Consulting

APRIL 27, 2025

In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, we discuss our new book, Unfolded: Lessons in Transformation from an Origami Crane. We explore how lifes mountain and valley momentsits foldsshape who we become. Through personal stories and leadership insights, Linda shares how listening, meaning-making, and storytelling can guide transformation for individuals and teams.

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Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2025

They can reveal faulty assumptions, hidden opportunities, and what’s really within your control.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 29, 2025

I've been working with a new-to-the-organization senior leader, Steve, who struggles with this challenge: He wants to capitalize some operational expenses. (That's a move from OpEx to CapEx.) He is convinced that will give him some freedom to change things while everyone is still working hard. So they've asked all the technical people to fill out time cards to describe how much time each person spends on which project.

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MishTalk

APRIL 29, 2025

On another set of horrid trade data, the GDPNow forecast ends on a low note.

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Robertson Cooper

APRIL 29, 2025

Discover what workplace wellbeing is, why wellbeing at work and organisational wellbeing matters, and how to approach a wellbeing strategy.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2025

Six ways leaders can demonstrate a steady hand in turbulent times.

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Prudent Pedal

APRIL 29, 2025

A Call for the Strategic Reinvention of Pro Services Sales, Marketing, and Delivery Several years ago, we had the sales and marketing leaders from SMART Technologies on the Rattle & Pedal podcast. They had just been featured in an HBR article titled Traditional B2B Sales and Marketing Are Becoming Obsolete.

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MishTalk

APRIL 28, 2025

The answer varies widely by business, but we can estimate in billions.

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Robertson Cooper

APRIL 29, 2025

Join Business Psychologist, Tamara Hughes, for a webinar on creating thriving workplaces by managing stress and promoting wellbeing.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2025

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Seth Godin Blog

APRIL 30, 2025

The ideas aren’t uncomfortable, we are. You don’t have to like the weather to acknowledge that it’s raining.

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MishTalk

APRIL 28, 2025

I don’t usually cover regional Fed reports individually, but this one is wild.

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Consulting Success

MAY 2, 2025

A consulting retainer is a monthly fee clients pay you for ongoing work or access to your expertise. It’s how smart consulting business owners create steady, predictable income instead of chasing new projects every month. “It’s like getting a paycheck every month from 20 different clients,” says Sarah Borders, who we helped build a 7-figure.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2025

Sponsor content from Atlassian.

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Seth Godin Blog

MAY 1, 2025

Has a strategy behind it. Often unsaid, undiscussed and hidden. It’s easier to simply play with the tactic of the moment. Tell me what your tactic is trying to accomplish and I’ll be halfway to understanding what your strategy is. But it makes a lot more sense to announce your strategy first, and then invite your team to invent tactics that make it work.

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MishTalk

APRIL 27, 2025

We’ve seen this story before and know how it ends.

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