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Why CEO’s Hire Consultants and Coaches: The REAL Value They Bring with Brad Rex

Consulting Matters

About the guest: About the guest: Brad Rex is an accomplished senior executive and corporate officer with proven experience growing businesses and driving results in start-up, turnaround, expansion and multi-site situations. An industry visionary, Brad specializes in distressed and growth business opportunities.

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Narrow Your Niche to Win More Work as a Solopreneur

Successful Independent Consulting

What problems or challenges do I know how to solve? What was the industry? They have a defined niche that makes them easy to remember. More importantly, prospective clients recognize the consultant’s vocation by simply skimming their LinkedIn profile or resumé. Here are three exercises to get you started. Exercise #1: Reflection.

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How to Evaluate Your Marketing Leader’s Performance

Prudent Pedal

In the hope of helping you, your firm, and your marketing leader succeed, I have put together a cheat sheet called How to Evaluate Your Marketing Leader’s Performance. How to Evaluate Your Marketing Leader’s Performance – Productivity School of Marketing. If not, how can we leverage you more next year? Keep Doing 2.

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Your Consulting Niche vs Jack-of-All-Trades Myth

Successful Independent Consulting

Transformation and turnaround leader specialized in building teams, measurement systems, and driving results at distressed and growth companies alike, with a focus on the middle market. Translation: turnaround expert. What situations do you know how to address? What was the industry? What problems do you solve?

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Industrial Production Declines Most in 3.5 Years, Down Eighth Time in Ten Months

MishTalk

Industrial production shocked to the downside this morning with a drop of 0.6%, the most in 3.5 November was another weak month for the industrial economy, in part reflecting unusually warm temperatures that are driving down utility output. Industrial production came in at the Econoday low forecast, down a very sharp 0.6

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Leaders Who Get Change Right Know How to Listen

Harvard Business

What she learned informed her strategy for the turnaround, which she then communicated through a series of town halls, roundtables, and memos. ” And she restored the company’s profitability — the turnaround was a success. “The response was overwhelming,” Mulcahy said. “Defection slowed to a trickle.

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How to Have a Good Debate in a Meeting

Harvard Business

The sample includes senior and junior managers and individual contributors from a range of industries in corporate America; my aim was to statistically identify work habits that correlate with higher performance.). So how do you lead a good fight in meetings? Take the contrarian view.

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