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What’s the Smallest Project Your Consulting Firm Should Take?

David A Fields

What’s the smallest project your consulting firm should accept? Should there even be a minimum? Absolutely! Sort of. Brrrrng, brrrrng. It’s Phyllis Phinsternoodle calling to inquire whether you can take on a quick, two-week project at her petunia plant. No, she’s called back: it turns out she only needs you for one day.

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CEO Succession Planning in a Family Business

Strategy+Business

Warburtons, a British family-owned bakery business, believes that the next generation of family members interested in joining the company first need to get experience in business, and not expect to inherit an automatic role in the company. External talent also needs to be shown that it will be given a fair chance in a family-owned company. In this interview, part of s+b's "Inside the Mind of the CEO" series, Jonathan Warburton describes how his family business prepares for the sixth generation t

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Minding the Gender Gap

Strategy+Business

In That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) about Working Together, journalist Joanne Lipman challenges men and women to overcome unconscious bias to address gender disparity in the workplace.

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Cultivating a Mindset of Imperfection Action: Interview with Consulting Success Founder Michael Zipursky

Consulting Matters

Interview Transcript: Betsy Jordyn: Well hello there everybody it's Betsy Jordyn of the Consultants Institute, and I am so excited to finally be interviewing Michael Zipursky of Consulting Success. So Michael and I met how many years ago was it, Michael? M. Zipursky: Oh, wow. Betsy Jordyn: About three years? Four years ago? M. Zipursky: It's been awhile.

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PowerPoint Best Practices for Creating Stellar Presentations

Mastering data visualization in PowerPoint will help accelerate your career because it positions you as someone who can present data that drives business decisions forward. think-cell's PowerPoint Best Practices eBook was created specifically for professionals aiming to master the art and science of data-driven storytelling. What’s inside: Practical Insights: Uncover valuable tips for crafting engaging and persuasive presentations.

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Michael Zipursky on Business Innovators Network

Consulting Success

Michael was recently featured on the Business Innovators Network, which you can listen to here: Michael Zipursky on Business Innovators Network To acheive true success, there are two components: confidence and competence. You need to know you can do something — and then you need to do it, which is what gives you confidence. Once you know how to do something and you do it, then you feel confident.

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Book Review – “How the mighty fall” by Jim Collins

Tom Spencer

Introduction. Jack Welch, ex-Chairman and ex-CEO of General Electric once said, “If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete”. While this quote makes sense, organizations can always strive for opportunities to build new competitive advantage by investing passion, right strategic thinking, perseverance, and determination. However, while gaining competitive advantage is one thing, sustaining the advantage is quite another.

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What Can the L&D Industry Learn From AI?

Clarity Consultants

Artificial intelligence has taken the business world by storm, driving dramatic transformations in every industry from manufacturing to retail. The L&D industry is no different. Here are 3 ways that AI can help L&D experts accomplish bigger and better things in an age of digital transformation. The post What Can the L&D Industry Learn From AI?

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Attracting High-Value Clients In One Vital Step: Podcast #29

Consulting Success

From the The Elite Consulting Mind, a look into the reasons why you can’t wait for perfection to take action. Description: Today I’m sharing another chapter from my newest book The Elite Consulting Mind: 16 Proven Mindsets to Attract More Clients, Increase Your Income and Achieve Meaningful Success. This book is full of principles — all proven by elite consultants — that you can use to overcome challenges, remove obstacles, and grow your business significantly. […].

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Consulting Website Design 020: Website Expectations [VIDEO]

Tsavo Neal

In this episode, you’ll learn about the expectations your prospects have when they visit your consulting website, and how important it is to meet (and exceed) those expectations. ( Slides ). Summary. VeraSage : Revolutionary thinkers — and the website does not match my perception. David C. Baker : Brilliant thinker — and his website matches my perception.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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The Hum of Chinese Innovation

Tom Spencer

I am not sure if I’m simply becoming a more globally aware person or if reports on China are on the rise, but over the past several years I seem to have been reading more and more about our world’s perceived next global power, China. This volume of new articles sparked an interest in me to learn more about this curious country. Now, it is all good and fine to read about a country, but I figure you don’t get a complete picture of a place through news articles and statistical reports, so I decided

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The Case For Kindness In Marketing

Henry DeVries

“By practicing kindness in your business, you can increase your income, generate new clients, stimulate repeat customers to buy, and much more,” advises international speaker and expert on influence Jill Lublin.

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The 30-Day Challenge

Chad Barr

I don’t know about you, but I love a good challenge. Are you up to one? As we are heading towards the month of April, which has 30 days, I thought it would be fun, exciting, challenging and rewarding to launch this new 30-day challenge for all of us. I am not suggesting you take on all 30 over the next 30 days. I would be happy if you start with one!

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How to Set Up a Website or Blog with Bluehost

Consultant Journal

So you’re looking to set up a personalized email address, website or blog. I’m a Bluehost affiliate partner and I want to be clear that I receive a commission if you sign up with them. You are certainly welcome to set up a website, blog or personalized email anywhere. I spent a fair bit of time researching where to send Consultant Journal readers, though, and I chose Bluehost because they’ve been around the block, they’re a recognized name and their approach seems good.

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Savings Consultants Are Needed in Today's Market More Than Ever

Savings Consultants are needed in today’s market more than ever. With an increase in expenses, businesses are looking for opportunities to save. Often unknown to businesses are savings in expense reduction, specialized tax savings, specialized savings including medical underpayments, health benefits cost reduction, zero cost processing, and more. Blue Coast Savings, with over 20 years in business, assists Savings Consultants in helping these companies move toward more profitable businesses.

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Perfection

Tom Spencer

“Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it” ~ Salvador Dali. Image: Twistedsifter.

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How To Market By Getting Paid To Speak

Henry DeVries

Speaking is the fastest way to get exposure and build credibility. It’s how every great movement began. It is also the best way to attract high-paying clients.

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A Guarantee: The Most Powerful Brand for your Business

The Fearless Marketer

I’m working with a client right now who does high-end sales training. And we’re currently working on the messaging for his website. In the course of our conversations, he mentioned that 82% of his clients got a 10:1 ROI on their training investment. That’s both impressive and significant. However, his website didn’t mention this fact. Instead, the home page of his site mentioned general ideas about the value of their sales training.

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12 Illustrations about Management Thinking

Strategy+Business

A look at the artwork from the recent pages of strategy+business, on themes including overcoming bias at work, competitiveness in the age of digitization, and the ethics of CEOs.

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TOOLS and METHODOLOGIES for developing DECISION SUPPORT PACKAGES

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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The Most Common Type of Incompetent Leader

Harvard Business

Jakub Domerecki/EyeEm/Getty Images. A young friend recently remarked that the worst boss he ever had would provide him with feedback that always consisted of “You’re doing a great job.” But they both knew it wasn’t true — the organization was in disarray, turnover was excessive, and customers were not happy. My friend was giving it his all, but he needed more support and better feedback than he received.

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When your ideas get stolen

Seth Godin Blog

A few meditations: Good for you. Isn't it better that your ideas are worth stealing? What would happen if you worked all that time, created that book or that movie or that concept and no one wanted to riff on it, expand it or run with it? Would that be better? You're not going to run out of ideas. In fact, the more people grab your ideas and make magic with them, the more of a vacuum is sitting in your outbox, which means you will prompted to come up with even more ideas, right?

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Please Help A Pair Select a Title for a Geographically Distributed Agile Teams Book

Johanna Rothman

I’ve been a part of geographically distributed teams since the mid-80s. I’ve taught and written about agile distributed teams for several years. Now, I’m pair-writing a geographically distributed agile teams book with Mark Kilby. We’ve tweeted a little. We’ll be talking about our process at Agile 2018 in an experience report.

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The Habits that Slow Down Women's Careers

Strategy+Business

Marshall Goldsmith and Sally Helgesen on how female professionals can change self-limiting behaviors. For related insights, read "How Women Can Succeed by Rethinking Old Habits.

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Why You Need to Use Case Studies in Sales and Marketing (and How to Start Now)

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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How Black Women Describe Navigating Race and Gender in the Workplace

Harvard Business

CSA Images/ Color Printstock Collection/Getty Images. A few years ago I started attending classes for my part-time MBA. What I noticed almost immediately was that my experience in the classroom largely mirrored my experience of close to a decade in corporate America: I’m consistently one of very few black women and black people in the room. In September, Ellen McGirt published an article in Fortune exploring why there are zero African-American women running Fortune 500 companies.

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The Podcast Fellowship (a summer program)

Seth Godin Blog

[If you know a full-time student in need of a worthy summer project, please share with them.]. Summer internships are a problem. Too often, you're working for free, doing very little of value and learning less. Two out of three might be okay, but that's a lousy combination. Too often, careers are shaped based on too little input from a busy office. And far too often, privilege and existing relationships play a role in who gets to do something productive.

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Million Dollar Web Presence – Chris Cooper Interviews Chad Barr

Chad Barr

Hidden among the chaos and hype, there are secrets to success on the web. Globally renowned inter-net expert Chad Barr is joining me to reveal them – and show you how to use them to amplify your web presence and profits. Using the unmatched reach of the web, entrepreneurs are empowered to take a more tactical, brand-driven approach to attracting new clients and reinforcing the relationships with their current clientele—quickly raising the bar to produce better results for their brand and t

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I want to build my authority by writing. But what do I write about?!

Rod Burkert

Well, as you can see, this “newsletter” looks a little different. Back in mid-January, I said one of my Q1 goals was to move the newsletter to my website’s blogging platform. While I’ve been ruminating on this for many months, it only took me one month to actually execute. Yes, a lot of work. But the advantages to you are that: All of my 126 past newsletters will be available in one archive.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.