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Achieving Startup Success via Product-Market Fit

Tom Spencer

While this idea is appealing and no doubt has some truth to it, it has led many entrepreneurs to develop, fund, and launch products that ultimately fail. Why waste years scaling up a product that from the outset never performed the job that customers needed doing? It has come to be known as product-market fit.

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Back to the Basics in Leadership and Life with former EVP of Operations for the Walt Disney World Resort Lee Cockerell

Consulting Matters

Lee is not just a great leader; he also turned his leadership success into a highly profitable leadership and management training business, so he's got some best practices on how he stands out in the market and wins clients. In this episode, you'll hear: How Lee evolved as a leader by shedding defensiveness and operating in trust.

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Consultant, Contractor, Freelancer - Labels Matter!

Successful Independent Consulting

If you were a hotel chain, would you be a Motel 6, Courtyard by Marriott, or a Ritz-Carlton? Freelancers use artistic or technical skill to generate work products. They tend to do more tactical work, as opposed to the strategic problem solving of consultants or the creative production of freelancers.

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Leadership Tip #13: For Innovation, Remove at Least One Policy or Procedure a Week

Johanna Rothman

Some managers wanted to prevent Bad Things from happening in the organization, so they added policies or procedures. Now, these same managers want business agility. As the organization changes (both products and tooling), people might not make those mistakes again. Worse, sometimes, managers add more policies and procedures.

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An Ex-Consultant’s Jump into the Start Up World

Management Consulted

He co-founded MobileSuites, an app that puts travel concierge services and hotel information at your fingertips, and which you can (and should) find and sign-up for here. Other times, we would be doing due diligence on a data center, and that would be a much more slimmed down team, probably one or two analysts and a manager.

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Consultant Ninja: Reasons not to stay in Consulting: Management.

Consultant Ninja

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Yesterday upon arrival at her hotel she received a fruit basket, a warm welcome from the staff who greeted her by first name, and the below card. Productivity. (6).

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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

I did this while attending UChicago and picking up extra cash cleaning industrial carpets, being a production artist for GES Exposition Services during the summer, or working a Blockbuster. I also handled recruitment, payroll, inventory management, and other store operations.

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