David A Fields

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The moment immediately after a prospect becomes your client is when the Onboarding phase of your consulting firm’s client experience begins. Beginnings matter. Which is why the best practices to start your projects are discussed below. Consider some famous beginnings: Four score and seven years ago (Gettysburg address) It was the best of times, it … Continued The post 7 Steps to Kick Off Every Consulting Project Perfectly appeared first on David A.

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Epicflow

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Matrix organizational structure has become common for a great number of business organizations and thats for a good reason: it facilitates flexibility, contributes to employee engagement and retention, and lets companies utilize the potential of a diverse pool of resources. At the same time, it has some inherent limitations that can wipe out the convenience and benefits of this corporate framework.

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Effective Managers

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Effective decision-making is the cornerstone of successful management, but its far from a purely logical process. Psychological factors deeply influence how managers assess information, weigh options, and ultimately make decisions. Understanding these factors is crucial for improving decision quality. In this article, we explore how cognitive biases, emotions, and social influences impact managerial decisions and offer strategies to enhance the decision-making process.

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Clarity Consultants

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Effective leadership has never been more critical as organizations navigate change, innovation, and complex challenges. As businesses evolve, their leaders must adapt as well. Integrating executive coaching and leadership mentoring programs represents a significant opportunity for transformation. These initiatives are more than development tools; they are wise investments to build outstanding leadership skills.

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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.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The promise of higher productivity makes using ChatGPT and other gen AI tools to help with daily business writing tempting. But there are risks: loss of your unique voice, inadvertent errors, and ethical pitfalls, all of which can negatively impact your credibility and relationships. Using AI to help you rather than replace you as you write can help you avoid these downsides and take advantage of the technology.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Healthcare costs have soared. Obamacare failed to live up to its promises. And my lead image dramatically understates the problems with costs.

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Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 7, 2024

The Society for Human Resources Management (or SHRM) has recently published a few articles on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in employment. The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (or EEOC) has provided some technical guidelines on using AI to avoid adverse impact on employment selection. Failure to comply can lead to some workplaces feeling […] The post Video: Shermie Addressing AI in the Workplace appeared first on Harmonious Workplaces.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Five ways organizations can codify and foster the skills that will give them a competitive advantage.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Collaborative Change Partnerships for Initiating Effective Organizational Change Collaborative change partnerships are the vehicle to initiating effective change within an organization. Why? Because most leaders carry ideas about change that stem from additional ideas of command and control leadership. We know from change management simulation data, that top down leadership approaches have a limited and short-lasting impact on behavior change.

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Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 7, 2024

It’s all over but the shouting. Assad is gone. What’s ahead though is unknown.

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The Management Centre

DECEMBER 11, 2024

As any experienced manager will tell you, however you attempt to handle the transition into management, there will be things you cannot plan for. Managing for the first time is not without its obstacles and challenges. This is even more so if you are managing your former colleagues. And as with any new situation you are bound to have an emotional reaction.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Powered by data, AI can only look backward. We need people to imagine better futures.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The Top 7 Steps to Create Leadership-Driven Performance We know from leadership simulation assessment data that exceptional leaders drive exceptional performance. Exceptional leaders dont just set the pace; they cultivate a high performance culture that helps people to perform at their peak. Leadership-driven performance is about more than hitting targets; its about fostering an environment where people and the business thrive together.

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DECEMBER 7, 2024

The government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is about to collapse. Let’s discuss the long saga.

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Alan Weiss

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The four phases of a sale, within an hour, to create a proposal that’s accepted every time: Building trust: Exchange insights about the business, the market, prevailing conditions, etc. Demonstrate that you are an astute business person and can talk on a wide variety of subjects. Identifying issues: What are the major opportunities extant from the other’s perspective, and how can progress be best accelerated?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 10, 2024

With generative AI, the rewiring of global supply chains, and investments in clean energy and associated technologies, business is on the cusp of capital investments the likes weve never before seen. Traditionally, organizations see a capital project as a single behemoth, broken down into a number of constituent components that ultimately must come together at the end for the project to succeed.

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Emerson Consulting Group

DECEMBER 13, 2024

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 8, 2024

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Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Planning is an art and a science. Its necessary but doesnt have to be a necessary evil. A few years ago, I was working on a project for a company in a heavily regulated industry. The project had several workstreams. One involved reimagining how the companys widget was packaged and what the accompanying instructions looked […] The post Goldilocks Planning appeared first on Harmonious Workplaces.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Its a well-known problem: Organizations launch well-planned change initiatives with the best of intentions but then struggle to achieve their goals. To understand why this happens so often, the authors conducted a large-scale study that provided deep insights into the underlying challenges that organizations face when embarking on transformation initiatives.

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The Management Centre

DECEMBER 11, 2024

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Luigi Mangione was arrested in Pennsylvania and found with a firearm suppressor, a ghost gun and multiple fraudulent IDs.

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SchellingPoint

DECEMBER 10, 2024

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Complex problems require more strategic solutions than complicated ones. Here’s how to determine which one you have — and how to start working toward a solution.

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The Management Centre

DECEMBER 11, 2024

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