David A Fields

JUNE 13, 2025

You’re already leveraging emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic process automation (RPA) in your consulting practice. How could you use these tools more and better? A few weeks ago, I snorkeled a Caribbean reef with a marine biologist who pointed out various sea life, latched a white sea urchin onto my hand … Continued The post 10 Clever Uses of Tech in Consulting Firms appeared first on David A.

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Consulting Matters

JUNE 15, 2025

Do you ever feel like you're working tirelessly and still feel unfulfilled and disconnected? Puja Madan, a leadership coach who blends spirituality and entrepreneurship, shares her journey through the contrasting worlds of meditation centers and tech startups and how she developed her Amplify Model to help entrepreneurs find clarity in their values, vision, and voice.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JUNE 12, 2025

The world needs leaders that aspire to create a better tomorrow. Just as no one is perfect, no organization is perfect, and no organizational culture is perfect. Organizations, like all other natural systems, over time, head toward a state of randomness. Stated another way, if leaders are not continually investing in making organizations better, the organization will constantly decline.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Hey! I’m doing a special webinar on Thursday, June 15 at 1 PM Eastern focused on helping folks in professional services do a better job with their brands. This is coming off the back of the one I did on June 1 for AudienceView that was focused on people in the world of tickets. As a preview, I wanted to share some of the ideas that you’ll pick up in next week’s FREE webinar.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2025

Disruptive innovation isn’t just about simplifying technology — it also requires a new business model.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 16, 2025

There are generally two main approaches to solving problems in consulting, namely the: Investigative / data-based approach, and Hypothesis-based approach. The investigative approach is appropriate when the opportunity is well-defined, repetitive, and standardized, or where the solution is clear from the beginning. Progress is made by employing technical and subject matter expertise to drive towards the solution.

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Chad Barr

JUNE 14, 2025

Have you ever found yourself staring at a blank page, grappling with what idea to pen, or struggling to place the first word? Have you ever started to craft your next masterpiece only to slam on the brakes? If these scenarios ring true, you’ve met with writer’s block, or as Steve Pressfield names it, “the resistance” In Pressfield’s words, the resistance can be a formidable adversary: “Should you think resistance isn’t real, it will bury you.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2025

With accurate player-availability predictions for all active players, AI-powered decision-making is dramatically improved around three dimensions: 1) Risk management: If a productive wide-receiver is likely to get hurt, for example, a team might invest more in talented backups, to minimize drop-off in team performance during injury. 2) Training and targeted interventions: If AI suggests a player is injury-prone, teams can target that player with customized training, nutrition, or other regimens

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Consulting Success

JUNE 16, 2025

As a solo consultant or consulting business owner, do you often feel like there are never enough hours in the day? It’s common to feel overwhelmed by the amount of client work on your plate. As a result, it’s often business development gets neglected. And this leads to significant peaks and troughs in the pipeline.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 16, 2025

As technology changes the business environment at an increasing rate, established companies have become increasingly innovative. Despite their best efforts, however, large companies are often unable to keep up with technological change due to bureaucracy, legacy systems, pre-existing business models, institutional inertia, and financial constraints.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 15, 2025

Very few writers—nonfiction or fiction—sell a lot of books. That means they don't make money from their books alone. What's a writer to do? Take a look at the 2023 Write Stuff bundle. The bundle will help you see where you might improve your craft and your business. Most of the books apply to all writers. Sure, if you're a nonfiction writer, you might have to substitute “article” for short story, but writing is writing.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2025

Originally, ageism was understood to be prejudice, stereotypes, and discriminatory behavior targeted at older employees. But with an increasingly diverse and multigenerational workforce, age bias now occurs across the career life cycle — especially for women. “Youngism” refers to ageism toward younger adults, fueled by the conflation of age with maturity and the misperception that tenure is required for competency.

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Ben de Haldevang

JUNE 15, 2025

Our latest podcast headed up by our local resident expert, Paul Siegenthaler! We discuss the peculiarities of these amazing organisations, the challenges of integration, and the opportunities which they offer. Let me have your thoughts, experiences in this very specific part of the corporate landscape.

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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

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Clarity Consultants

JUNE 14, 2025

Many different learning methodologies are used in learning and development; however, one stands out as the most prevalent in corporate education. The ADDIE model is a popular framework developed by Florida State University for the US Military to guide the development of effective and efficient learning experiences. ADDIE is short for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 12, 2025

Is your organization in search of business agility? If so, here's one pragmatic tip: Reduce WIP (Work in Progress) everywhere. Start with the portfolio of everything you have to do. Ask the Zeroth Question, “Should we do this work at all?” Then, consider these questions, from One Quick Way to Start to Manage Your Project Portfolio : Which projects will make a difference in the next 1-3 months?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2025

Despite living on a planet with finite resources, our economy remains largely linear and full of single-use products. The shift toward a circular economy, where companies recover or recycle resources, has hit roadblocks, including low value of used products and high recycling costs. Harvard’s D^3 Institute recently highlighted how digital tools and AI can help overcome these hurdles.

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Henry DeVries

JUNE 15, 2025

"These soft skills bring clear and concise messaging and exciting opportunities," says award-winning coach Susan Young. "Be interesting so that people are interested.

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Just because we're working with a distributed team doesn't mean we have to abandon time-tested tools and methods like whiteboarding. Digital look-alikes often cramp creativity and all but eliminate the humanity of shared interactions. Hardware solutions are also limiting and, of course, expensive and immobile. In an increasingly digital and remote-first world, it’s important for us to select tools and processes that allow us to mitigate if not eliminate the above problems.

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Kraft Kennedy

JUNE 13, 2025

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Action Plan

JUNE 12, 2025

Have you noticed that there seems to be a lot of conflict, blame, and anger going around these days? And those feelings, states of mind, and actions are all working against our productivity, contribution, and thriving as individuals and as communities. This is something I’ve been thinking and writing a lot about these days. I also noticed that blaming and being angry about blame and anger don’t get me very far!

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2025

All too often innovations — including new products, new HR policies to attract and retain talent, and new production processes —developed in one part of a business stay there. Other groups that could benefit from them don’t know they exist. This leads to lost revenues and higher costs, since teams around the world often end up duplicating (or triplicating, or quadruplicating) investments in solving common problems.

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Epicflow

JUNE 12, 2025

There are a variety of approaches and methodologies aimed to increase the effectiveness of managing projects and deliver better outcomes. Each of them comes with specific advantages and disadvantages, which makes them suitable for different industries and different types of projects. In this article, we’d like to dwell upon the phase-gate process. Read further to learn its essence and structure, the types of projects it’s used for, the strong and weak points of the technique, and more.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

In my #brandmanagement class I teach that brand purpose is BS unless it costs you money. The Guardian puts that notion on display with their global ban on taking advertising from gambling companies. Y’all might not think this matters much because people should be able to gamble if they want to. (I totally like playing poker so I’m not anti-gambling.

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Seth Godin Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

Perhaps this is what your team needs from you: Agreeableness is not the same as agreeing. In fact, they have little in common. Finding someone who’s only job is to agree with everything that is said is easy. On the other hand, agreeableness is the skill of having a contrary position and being pleasant about it. It’s the hard work of bringing professional work to people who expected something else-and have them still be pleased about the changes.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2025

We’re in an unusual economic situation, one where recession fears are high but the job market is tight. As training budgets inevitably come under pressure, organizations will need to find more targeted ways to address their skills gaps. The author examines five of the biggest developments in this space: 1) digital apprenticeships that are helping fill jobs in the digital and tech sectors; 2) tuition-assistance programs aimed at frontline workers; 3) learning-experience platforms with features li

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LSA Global

JUNE 16, 2025

It’s All About Differentiation to Not Get Commoditized During the Sales Process Unless you are selling something that people can’t get enough of or you have no competition, your sales team needs to find effective ways to differentiate your product and services if you do not want to get commoditized during the sales process. Otherwise, you are just another company or sales rep among many and risk facing serious pricing pressure.

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When economic headwinds pick up, sales leaders are the first to sound the alarm — and chart a new course. Longer sales cycles, larger buying committees, increased price pressure, and smaller teams can quickly combine to reduce your margin for error and increase the urgency to find a solution. To thrive in a challenging environment, sales teams need a rock-solid grasp of the fundamentals and the biggest force-multipliers they can get their hands on.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

JUNE 14, 2025

The story of Goldman Sachs being “at war” with itself is pretty standard “I’m mad I’m not getting my way” so I will savage someone in the press type stuff. What is interesting is the struggles of Marcus, Goldman’s consumer facing bank face. Why has Marcus struggled? It begins with the concept of “core competencies.” Goldman is an investment bank.

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Seth Godin Blog

JUNE 13, 2025

We can tell from the words. “I’m just doing my job.” “Will this be on the test?” “Don’t blame me.” “It’s what everyone else is wearing.” Keep your head down, do what you’re told, don’t stick your neck out, and most of all, pay attention to what everyone else is doing. All of this comes from somewhere.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2025

Artificial intelligence is based around prediction. But decision making requires both prediction and judgment. That leaves a role for humans, in providing the judgment about which types of outcomes are better and worse. But large language models represent a key advance: OpenAI has found a way to teach its AI human judgment by using a simple form of human feedback, through chat.

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