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Investigating Career Journeys

Tom Spencer

This is enough time for you to build a new knowledge base and gain relevant experience. In chemistry, a catalyst is something that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without being consumed by providing an alternative pathway for the reaction that has a lower activation energy. Searching for opportunities.

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5 Benefits of Internal Strategy vs Consulting

Tom Spencer

However, extensive energy can be spent learning the political dynamics, internal processes, and even standard operating procedures for software tools. I joined consulting to learn new things constantly, but over time I also realized I wanted to gain depth rather than persistently add breadth to my knowledge base.

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How To Get The Attention Of Top Executives: The “Sidestep” Method

Tsavo Neal

Instead, they rely on a small army of advisors who provide specialized knowledge based on their qualifications, experience, and skills. Let’s say, for example, that you’re a consultant who wants to help renewable-energy companies create effective business plans – and by “effective” we mean “able to help raise financing.”.

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Using the Right Performance Metrics: Watch out for P&Ls

Kates Kesler

Historically, P&L’s attached to each line of business (LOB) led to siloed offerings that focused management energy on individual profit targets. As an example, we recently worked with a healthcare company that contains product/service lines of business (LOB’s).

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So, you’ve built a new capability, but no one uses it! What gives?

Kates Kesler

Cari should focus her energy on a few high value linkages where collaboration between her group and others will build credibility and momentum. Even if using the capability may save time, it requires an upfront investment of energy by the new adopters. The right connections have to be designed, however.

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What does the future of cryptocurrency and NFTs look like in the financial space?

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The market has already seen challenges, particularly in the financial services space where customers are investing large amounts of wealth, time, and energy into cryptocurrencies. What are we doing wrong? Customers choosing to explore new avenues and sources of wealth crave fast, personal, and secure services.

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Quick Feedback: A Small Gesture with An Outsized Impact

Kates Kesler

Your investment of time to give a small piece of authentic feedback just might give that recipient the confidence boost to keep experimenting with new behaviors, the extra energy to overcome a rough patch, or the motivation to start doing something differently.

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