David A Fields
MAY 8, 2018
Many consulting firm leaders think marketing their consulting practice is like baseball: You get up to bat with your articles, or blogs, or tweets, or speeches (a.k.a. your marketing). At some point you’ll hit one out of the park; i.e., one of your marketing tactics garners a passel of viewers or readers or listeners.
Gina Abudi
MAY 9, 2018
Refining or updating processes don’t go well when the project is rushed or when the people tasked with doing the work are not the ones who use the process. When the project of updating processes fails, the company may give up and leaves things as they are – the status quo prevails. Processes should be [.]. The post Updating Processes? Go Slowly!
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Harvard Business
MAY 10, 2018
beastfromeast/Getty Images. In every conversation at work, there’s the explicit discussion happening — the words being spoken out loud — and the tacit one. To be successful in most organizations, it’s important to understand the underlying conversations and reactions that people in the room are having. But if you aren’t picking up on those subtle cues, how can you learn to do so?
Leadership Vision Consulting
MAY 6, 2018
Today on the podcast, we’re talking about five leadership qualities that all leaders need to master if they want to be most effective. These five traits come from a list that Sara has been compiling for several years. To date, her list includes over 20 highly discerned characteristics that are critical in helping determine the success or failure of a leader.
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Harvard Business
MAY 9, 2018
hh5800/Getty Images. The problems we’re facing often seem as complex as they do intractable. And as Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying, “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” So what does it take to increase the complexity of our thinking? Too many leaders default to looking at decisions as either-or: The answer is right or wrong, good or bad, win or lose.
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Management Consulted
MAY 6, 2018
Does the intersection of tech and business strategy excite you? Does harnessing the effect of tech innovation on business get you out of bed in the morning? Then Bain is calling you – provided you are a 1st year MBA … Continued. The post 2018 ExperienceBain TECH appeared first on Management Consulted.
Tom Spencer
MAY 6, 2018
In this day and age of hospitals working to provide better care and outcomes for a cheaper price, one of the ways to gauge the impact that the implemented changes are having is through measuring patient satisfaction. Hospitals, health systems, and some private practice groups are working actively and diligently to improve patient satisfaction scores.
Clarity Consultants
MAY 11, 2018
ELearning has truly taken the L&D industry by storm. The convenience and cost savings of scaled learning programs has been a total game changer for corporate training programs. But many still hold that the traditional instructor-led training format will always be more engaging and more impactful for students. But perhaps there is a middle ground.
Jacq Hackett Consulting
MAY 7, 2018
When you first start out as a consultant the prospect of having to sell your services can be daunting. And if you think this is something that only affects you, then you might be surprised to hear that a lot of my Solo Consultant Masterclass students have been in the same boat. When you’ve spent your career primarily within the public sector, moving to the private sector can mean getting outside your comfort zone – and for many of us, selling our services is definitely falls into that category.
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CaseInterview.com
MAY 9, 2018
Most of my work involves either a corporate strategic plan or a personal strategic plan. The core of strategic planning centers around deciding on priorities and allocating resources to those priorities. A good strategic planning process is quite painful. It’s painful because resources are always constrained. This has been true in every strategic plan with which I’ve ever been involved.
Tom Spencer
MAY 6, 2018
This post will mainly focus on introducing the case interview format, and an overview of several key formats that are typically used. You may wonder, shouldn’t the format always be the same? No, there are different formats for the case interview, in other words different setups. Standard Format. The standard format is a one-on-one case interview. With this format, there are two styles: interviewee-led and interviewer-led.
Strategy+Business
MAY 10, 2018
In Soon: An Overdue History of Procrastination, from Leonardo and Darwin to You and Me, Andrew Santella explores procrastination, and why it is that whenever there is a job to do, you can count on someone putting it off.
Jacq Hackett Consulting
MAY 7, 2018
When you first start out as a consultant the prospect of having to sell your services can be daunting. And if you think this is something that only affects you, then you might be surprised to hear that a lot of my Solo Consultant Masterclass students have been in the same boat. When you’ve spent your career primarily within the public sector, moving to the private sector can mean getting outside your comfort zone – and for many of us, selling our services is definitely falls into that category.
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Actionable
MAY 9, 2018
Let go of the idea of leader as hero, and model the kind of behavior you want to see from your team—you'll all be happier, healthier, and more productive. The post Put Away Your Cape: Why Leader as Hero Doesn’t Work appeared first on Actionable.co.
Tom Spencer
MAY 6, 2018
Leading up to the summer before my senior year of college I was searching through Google for my next travel destination when a pop-up ad directed me to a website about Mongolia, the land of nomadic culture and once the largest contiguous empire founded by Genghis Khan. After some reflecting, I decided maybe I could both work and do backpacking at the same time.
Chad Barr
MAY 9, 2018
Photo by: Chad Barr. This last weekend, my family and I traveled to Los Angeles to celebrate the wedding of our niece, Shoshana to her talented and amazing new husband, Ryan. A truly beautiful celebration of love and a special occasion with our family as well as friends and other family members we have not seen in years. We got to relax and experience gorgeous Pasadena and even visit Disneyland and the Los Angeles Zoo.
Henry DeVries
MAY 10, 2018
Podcasts are one of the most effective business development strategies available today. Are you taking advantage of the marketing opportunities in hosting or participating in podcasts?
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.
Actionable
MAY 9, 2018
Let go of the idea of leader as hero, and model the kind of behavior you want to see from your team—you'll all be happier, healthier, and more productive. The post Put Away Your Cape: Why Leader as Hero Doesn’t Work appeared first on Actionable.co.
Johanna Rothman
MAY 9, 2018
Sometimes, teams have trouble releasing their work, showing the value of the work they’ve completed. There are many possible reasons for this release problem: The team doesn’t have sufficient working agreements about what “done” means. I’ve written about frictionless releasing. In Create Your Successful Agile Project , I wrote about the done, done-done, and done-done-done words we sometimes hear.
Strategy+Business
MAY 6, 2018
In the face of heightened urgency, some companies are seeking to go "carbon negative" by finding ways to actively pull carbon dioxide from the air and lock it into their products. For manufacturers, this means getting access to carbon-negative raw materials. And they will soon have more options for doing so, thanks to an emerging new industrial sector.
Harvard Business
MAY 11, 2018
Dragan Todorovic/Getty Images. “We have a great culture.” We have all heard it. We have all said it. But what does that mean? Ping-Pong tables, free meals, and beer on tap? No. Yoga, CrossFit classes, and massage chairs? I so need that, but no. The promise of being part of a hip, equity-incentivized, fast growing team? Closer, but still no.
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Seth Godin Blog
MAY 10, 2018
Walk through the diamond district in Manhattan and in the course of one block, at least a dozen men will stop you and ask if you're hoping to sell a diamond ring. A few blocks away, Tiffany will happily sell you a diamond ring. Buy a $7,000 ring at Tiffany's and walk over the one of these guys and you'll be lucky to get $1,000 for your new ring. That $6,000 is what you paid for the story.
Free Agent CFO
MAY 10, 2018
If I were asked to speak in front of 10,000 part-time CFOs and was allowed to give just one piece of advice, that would be easy. “Don’t be generic.” A Tale of a Generic Chicago CFO. A part-time CFO reached out to me asking how to better close client projects. I didn’t have the heart to tell him that his approach was dull, bland, and lifeless.
Strategy+Business
MAY 6, 2018
Digitization has permanently reshaped the global entertainment and media (E&M) ecosystem. The most successful E&M companies have always benefited from multiple revenue streams. But today profitable growth may depend on having five, six, or even more revenue streams -- an often fluid portfolio of bets on areas outside core business and traditional product lines.
Rod Burkert
MAY 9, 2018
Greetings from … well, it’s hard to say. We posed at a corner in Winslow, AZ and then drove about an hour south from there to … the Mogollon Rim. Why? We are meeting up with friends who will install solar power on our rig so that we can do some more remote stays and save money over “traditional” RV parks that have become quite expensive of late.
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