David A Fields

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Some consulting opportunities are rotten. Blech. Don’t want ‘em. Leave ‘em, don’t look back, and set your sights on better projects for your consulting firm. But hold on, Harry. (Wait, Walter? Pause, Paula?) A few of those stinky projects may actually be goldmines. A quick story: This past June, my wife and I were driving … Continued. The post How to Spot Golden Projects that Other Consulting Firms Miss appeared first on David A.

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The Management Centre

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Time management. It’s a popular topic in management training. Whichever way you look there is something else demanding your attention and therefore your time – and it can feel like drowning. To compensate we set up many systems to do the time management for us: email, diaries, shared calendars, spreadsheets, trackers, applications, phone alarms, meeting reminders, alerts, newsfeeds, and even good old post-its on the wall!

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Consulting Success

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Advocating to create an image of trust is one of the key things any consultant must strongly do in the process of starting or continuing a consultations business. Harrison Monarth, one of the most sought-after leadership development and executive coaches, shares the contributing factors to his consulting success. He guides us through the key steps. Leveraging Presence To Land Fortune 50 Consulting Clients with Harrison Monarth: Podcast #104 is a post from: Consulting Success.

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Melissa Agnes

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

One of the challenges of communicating effectively in times of viral issue and crisis management is ensuring that your brand’s communications are consistent across every stakeholder group, region and department. In other words, you don’t want one team of people saying one thing, while another team says another. Depending on the size and structure of your organization, this can be a challenge that leads to leadership strategizing ways by which they can add a security measure of ‘

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

I'm not a fan of measuring velocity. Velocity is a point-in-time measure of capacity. That means that when things change for the team or in the code, the velocity often changes. (See Velocity is Not Acceleration.). Instead, I like to measure cycle time. Cycle time is the entire time it takes a team to finish something on their board. Cycle time indicates how much the team collaborates together and how small the stories are.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 31, 2019

One of the more memorable parts of the consulting recruiting process was witnessing people attempting to network with consulting firms. What stood out was that people didn’t seem to have a commonsense understanding of networking best practices. Consequently, I witnessed some networking maneuvers that were simply bad form. I thought I had buried those amusing memories in my past, but this summer students have been seeking to network with me, and so now I’m experiencing some of these less than opt

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Once you have created your strategic plan and have a clear vision of where you're going, you then need to figure out how to track and measure your success.

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Chad Barr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

My wife and I recently attended the Water Lantern Festival on Cleveland’s Lake Erie coast at Voinovich park. On a beautiful, warm Cleveland evening, I, along with thousands of others, spread our numbers out, milling around and socializing over the lawns and walkways and waited for the sunset to be begin. Each participant received a bag containing a paper lantern and marker, on which to write our thoughts, hopes and wishes, a wooden base and a battery powered candle.

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Henry DeVries

AUGUST 31, 2019

Going far with relationships is how you grow a speaking career. The place to start when looking for speaking gigs is everyone you have worked for, worked with and met along the way.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 31, 2019

Product management is at the heart of any modern business and today’s product managers need to have incredibly strong quantitative skills and intuition to build products or features that customers will find truly useful. They must focus on quality outcomes and not quantity of output. This brings us to the four goals of product management?: Acquire. Activate.

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The Management Centre

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Being a manager means taking on more responsibilities and also letting go of others. However, as much as we know delegation is a good thing – we still struggle to do it well. Delegation provides your team with learning opportunities, development projects, balances workload and gives room for new insights. As a manager though you may be reluctant to overload people, to let go of tasks that you enjoy, or to invest the time in showing someone the ropes.

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Kai Davis

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

“What is Time Debt?” Time Debt is when you don’t have enough hours in the day to get things done, so you raid your Time Banks and then steal more time through a Time Heist. You’re here because you’ve run out of time. You’ve sold your time to too many clients, projects, and obligations. So? You go into Time Debt. You raid your Time Banks.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Harvard Business School professor Stefan Thomke discusses how past experience and intuition can be misleading when attempting to launch an innovative new product, service, business model, or process. Instead, Booking.com and other innovative firms embrace a culture where testing, experimentation, and even failure are at the heart of what they do.

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Consultants' Consultant

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Consultants Consultant: Miserable teams are not so effective. If you have miserable people in your office, The post Un-miserable appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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Consulthon

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

All, I would like to recommend to my company a software or a more innovative way for creating Automated Bribery Risk Assessment Surveys. It should be a user-friendly, self-directed assessment to he.

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The Source

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Apologies for those of you who clicked on this blog expecting a discussion of Kylie’s performance at Glastonbury; this blog is in fact about the audit market. Despite the (not so) occasional accounting scandal, many people could easily make the mistake of thinking the audit market is rather dull. The Big Four dominate the market, and many companies have very long lasting relationships with their auditors.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Is your organization going through some big shifts? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Katie Burke, the chief people officer of HubSpot. They talk through what to do when you’re ready to move up but there’s no one to take over your role, you’re expected to work on too many projects with too little support, or layoffs are happening but your boss isn’t giving you more responsibility.

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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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Prudent Pedal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Over my career, I have received, given or simply observed thousands of briefings, pitches, and proposals. There is a clear delineation between effective and ineffective presenters and business-development winners and losers. If you want to be an exceptional marketer or salesperson, you have to know how to present your ideas and recommendations to executives. .

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Martinka Consulting

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

AB InBev, which makes one out of every four beers sold worldwide and owns hundreds of brands is selling assets in Australia, Asia, and Central America. Why? Because an acquisition spree got them to the size they are but also saddled them with massive amounts of debt And there’s a lesson here for small businesses and individuals. Many things can derail a business’s value (customer concentration, owner dependency, etc.) and there’s nothing wrong with manageable debt.

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Rod Burkert

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Greetings from Forbes Park in the historic San Luis Valley of Colorado. Friends of ours bought a home here and promptly added two full-hook-up RV pads to accommodate visitors like us. Last week’s conversation was about using a video FAQ library for would-be clients who are looking for someone like you to solve their problem and stumble across your website during their search.

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QEmploy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

1. What is freelance programming? Freelancing is a viable option for developers to earn money while working at other jobs or starting own business. Flexibility is the key feature of being a freelance developer. Freelancer jobs come up with a range of benefits and a few limitations. This article covers answers to key questions to become a freelance developer. 2.

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The Source

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Fears about an economic downturn in the US have been waxing and waning for many months now, but growing disquiet is now being fuelled by some hard facts, with a slowdown in GDP growth in the second quarter of 2019, and a recent troubling downwards revision of 2018’s growth rate. This is being eyed with concern by many consulting firms for a number of very good reasons.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Oliver Hart, Nobel-winning Harvard economist, and Kate Vitasek, faculty at the University of Tennessee, argue that many business contracts are imperfect, no matter how bulletproof you try to make them. Especially in complicated relationships such as outsourcing, one side ends up feeling like they’re getting a bad deal, and it can spiral into a tit for tat battle.

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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Here it is, tested, effective and worthwhile: Stop chasing shortcuts. Personal finance, weight loss, marketing, careers, beating traffic, relationships, education–everything that matters to someone often comes with heavily promoted shortcuts as an alternative. Fast, risk-free, effortless secrets that magically work, often at someone else’s expense.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Defining Organizational Health. When people try to define their personal health, they often think of their overall well-being where all systems – physical, mental, and social – are positive and in balance. But it’s more than that. It also assumes an ability to recover from the inevitable onslaught from disease and other problems. Organizational health is similar.

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