David A Fields

JANUARY 20, 2016

Life’s great as a consultant when you’re bustling through a project. Until the project’s done. Then you pop your head up and life’s rough while you’re hustling to get another project. Until you land one. Then you’re back to bustling… …and on it goes. Hustle and bustle. Feast and famine. Grins and grimaces. The bane of independent consultants’ existence.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 17, 2016

Welcome back to our case interview frameworks series, giving you a step by step approach to solve any case that’s set before you. If you haven’t read our first article yet, we encourage you to go back and read it before continuing. Case interview frameworks are used to open a case and to solve a case. It’s very important that you think of both of these, opening and solving the case, because the frameworks are meant to be very practical, action-oriented, metrics-driven and clear

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Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC

JANUARY 20, 2016

As I finished a client’s strategy session report this morning, I kept thinking about how the CEO has changed over the past five years since we last worked together. He’s still brilliant, tenacious, out-spoken, aggressive, driven, blunt, and not politically correct -- Can you see why I like him? Yet he’s changed. He’s no longer afraid to laugh. And that change has caused a huge shift in how he and his senior staff interact, plan, work, produce, profit, and succeed.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 17, 2016

(Source: Flickr ). If you have received an offer of employment from the consulting firm of your choice, you may still want to negotiate the terms of the offer. How should you go about doing this? Use your bargaining power. Your ability to negotiate the terms of your offer depends on how much bargaining power you have. The consulting industry is currently experiencing growth in various markets, and so it may be possible to negotiate a more favorable employment contract.

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David A Fields

JANUARY 18, 2016

A consultant asked me the following question: You talk a lot about speaking and writing as ways to become more visible to your clients. Are those the only ways? Are there any other effective ways to become visible if I’m not a great writer or speaker? Here’s the answer I gave the consultant: There are five “marketing musts” for consultants who want to build their visibility.

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Chad Barr

JANUARY 20, 2016

Reflection point: I was 21 and had just completed my three years of compulsory military service in Israel, when one of my friends shared a newspaper ad with me looking for people of my profile to travel to the US and bring the Israeli culture to summer camps. I ended at this beautiful place by the lake called Cleveland, Ohio, where I met my future wife to be, Laurel and where we raised our family.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 20, 2016

Italian Bank Customers Pull Deposits The CEO of Monte dei Paschi, Italy's third largest bank, and the oldest surviving bank in the world, admits Customers Pulling Deposits as share prices sink. Some Monte dei Paschi customers have been pulling savings out of the Italian bank, its chief executive said on Wednesday, as it faces a crisis over a mountain of bad loans that has wiped nearly 60 percent off its market value this year.

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The Source

JANUARY 19, 2016

By Alison Huntington. M&A is one of the issues a client is most likely to pick up the phone to a consulting firm about, and luckily for TMT consultants, there’s been a huge amount of it across the industry. 2014 saw deals hit their highest level since before the financial crisis, creating lots of opportunities for consultants in pre- and post-merger integration work, and in due diligence.

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Strategy+Business

JANUARY 20, 2016

Why General Electric's shocking move to leave the Connecticut suburbs wasn't all that surprising.

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freshminds

JANUARY 20, 2016

It is a well-known fact that with the increasing reliance we place on digital platforms for all aspects of business, the IT department has gained a new importance in the boardroom and in the decision making process. Computer failures can cause catastrophe with so much business being conducted online and the look and feel of websites can totally affect the way in which consumers experience a company and its products.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 20, 2016

"B" Word Hits Chicago At long last, Illinois has a sensible proposal to help Chicago schools: Bankruptcy. The cause of Chicago's problem is untenable pension promises, ridiculous union contracts, and bloated administration payrolls. As a direct result of those problems, the Chicago Board of Education, the nation’s third-largest district, is under fiscal siege.

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Martinka Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2016

I was working from my home office recently when there was a knock on the door. It was a young guy with a new Edward Jones office. He was out making the rounds to generate business. Nothing like the personal touch and seeing someone face-to-face. There are many ways to generate business including knocking on doors, advertising, speaking, networking, and dozens more.

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The Source

JANUARY 17, 2016

By Fiona Czerniawska. Consultants are notoriously optimistic. Years ago, I had the partner I was working for up against a wall (metaphorically speaking, you understand), when he overused the phrase, “every problem is an opportunity”. “This is just a problem,” I said, “I’ve looked everywhere for the opportunity in it, and there isn’t one.”. And they have to be.

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Strategy+Business

JANUARY 20, 2016

There's no scientific method for coming up with brilliant new ideas. But the authors of a new book argue that a set of habits can help foster innovation.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 22, 2016

Fourth Industrial Revolution Coming A new study on the " Future of Jobs " by the World Economic Forum at Davos claims a Fourth Industrial Revolution is Coming. The Fourth Industrial Revolution includes developments artificial intelligence, robotics, nanotechnology, 3-D printing, genetics, and biotechnology. Although no industrial revolution has ever destroyed jobs, the study concludes a net 5.1 million jobs will vanish in the world's 15 leading countries.

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Gina Abudi

JANUARY 21, 2016

Ask These Questions of Your Employees to Gauge Employee Morale Levels Do your employees love where they work? Do employees seem happy at work? Are they collaborating with each other? Is so – morale is likely high in the workplace. When an organization focuses on employee morale, employees are happier and top talent is likely [.]. The post How High is Employee Morale in Your Organization?

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Seth Godin Blog

JANUARY 19, 2016

A six-year-old who throws a tantrum and refuses to go to school is escalating into the urgent. Going to school every day is important. Mollifying an angry customer is urgent, building systems and promises that keep customers from getting angry is important. Killing the bugs in the kitchen is urgent, putting in weatherstripping to keep them out for the long haul is important (as is avoiding carcinogens).

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This White Paper targets opportunities for Management to develop proficiency in the Decision Framing and Analyses element of input to Decision, & Risk Analyses for Major Project Funding Decisions.

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Strategy+Business

JANUARY 21, 2016

Flexible, adaptive supply chain management is an overlooked but vital component of a company's overall innovation strategy.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 20, 2016

Shell Fires Another 10,000 As reflective of trends in the industry Shell Fires 10,000 Workers As its fortunes collapse due to falling oil prices, Royal Dutch Shell PLC will fire 10,000 people in an effort to bolster margins. Operating costs have reduced by $4 billion, or around 10% in 2015, and the company expects Shell’s costs to fall again in 2016 by a further $3 billion.

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Gina Abudi

JANUARY 20, 2016

Training is an effective way to not just increase the skills of your employees but to boost morale and improve the workplace overall. Training improves the workplace overall as it shows the organization’s commitment to employees and indicates to employees that an investment in their future is key. Investing in regular training for employees enables [.].

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Cheryl Cran

JANUARY 16, 2016

Press Release. Author of “ The Art of Change Leadership” Cheryl Cran Announces Exciting Book Signing at Indigo Books, Bay & Bloor, Toronto. To say there’s a lot of conversation around Cheryl Cran’s “The Art of Change Leadership – Driving Transformation in a Fast Paced World”, would be quite an understatement. The new book presents Future of Work and Leadership Change ideas in a fresh and compelling way.

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Strategy+Business

JANUARY 19, 2016

Quiet managers who foster teamwork produce better results than blustery leaders.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 19, 2016

$28 Trillion "Internal Problem" The blue ribbon award for ridiculous comment of the day goes to Ben Bernanke who dismissed China's $28 trillion debt pile as an "internal problem" only. This revelation came from the Asian Financial Forum held in Hong Kong where Bernanke Downplayed China Impact on World Economy. "I don't think China's economic slowdown is that severe to threaten the global economy," said Bernanke at the Asian Financial Forum held in Hong Kong.

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Gina Abudi

JANUARY 19, 2016

A team charter provides a team – whether a workgroup, department team or a project team – with clarity around the purpose, mission and goals of the team. Most particularly for virtual teams the charter is absolutely essential to ensure understanding of what the team has been tasked with doing for the organization. A team [.]. The post Use a Team Charter to Increase Team Success appeared first on Gina Abudi.

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Seth Godin Blog

JANUARY 17, 2016

Fear shows up unbidden, it almost never goes away if you will it to, and it's rarely a useful tool for your best work. Hope, on the other hand, can be conjured. It arrives when we ask it to, it's something we can give away to others again and again, and we can use it as fuel to build something bigger than ourselves.

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