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Is Theft of Your Intellectual Property Just a Part of Thought Leadership?

Chad Barr

Guest Post: Is Theft of Your Intellectual Property Just a Part of Thought Leadership? The inclusion of my eclectic gift ideas made it absolutely clear that the author did not recreate my intellectual property by chance. I could lock my intellectual property away and dole it out with great caution.

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Why Consulting Businesses Don’t Scale Easily (& How To Scale Yours)

Tsavo Neal

Not only will this help you divorce your income from time-spent, but productized consulting will serve your most powerful intellectual property for introducing people to your higher-touch, custom consulting services. As a consultant, you deal with long sales cycles. back-pain sufferers immediately trust him.

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3 Common M&A Pitfalls, and How to Avoid Them

Harvard Business

billion on Skype , which it hoped would increase sales on its platform by giving buyers and sellers an instant communications channel. When Skype failed to take off among eBay users, most people assumed that was the reason eBay put Skype for sale four years later (taking a $936 million write-down in the value ). In 2005, eBay spent $2.6

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Growth Ideas From London

Chad Barr

This week’s reflection point: Every several months I get together with my global growth circle (mastermind group on steroids), facilitated by Alan Weiss, to discuss our businesses and identify growth areas for our clients and for us. First is marketing, which creates the need and sales, which provides options. © Chad Barr 2014.

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Cornerstone Research Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Founded in 1989 by three former consultants of the MAC Group (a boutique sales and distribution consulting firm), Cornerstone Research was established to be very different than the general management consulting firm it was birthed from; focused on unique clients, managing delicate client relationships, and offering specialized work.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Intellectual property. Intellectual Property. Intellectual Property. FTI’s top 3 competitors are CRA International, Navigant Consulting, and interestingly enough, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). However, US-based clients still account for the vast majority (around 75%) of sales.

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Million Dollar Takeaways and Goals

Chad Barr

Surrounded by the gorgeous nature and an amazing group of people: My wife, Alan Weiss, seven other members of the Million Dollar Club and their spouses and partners. We met in the mornings, discussed business, best practices, intellectual properties and ideas to improve our lives and businesses. Create more powerful alliances.