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15 Best Business Podcasts for Independent Consultants

Tsavo Neal

Podcasts make amazing listening material for commutes, travel, and listening for when you don’t feel like taking out a book. Unleashed by Will Bachman Unleashed offers long-form interviews with successful top-tier independent management consultants. To listen and subscribe, visit forecast.fm/itunes.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

As we were looking through your responses, we realized you were answering as if you were in an interview – and that’s smart. These days, it pays to practice being in “interview mode” so you’re ready for the real thing – whether it’s networking with a neighbor at Starbucks or sitting in the hot seat.

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Buying a Business; Operating a Business; Selling a Business Employees are More Important than Ever

Martinka Consulting

Heck, in some places fast-food restaurants are offering incentives just to be interviewed. Many people worked harder than ever when working from home, didn’t see much of others, and didn’t travel. The above are facts and the question is, what do all these facts mean to small business owners and buy-sell deals?

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Is Your Business Ready to be Sold?

Martinka Consulting

Let’s start with a recent Seattle Executives meeting where five members talked about multi-generation businesses, succession, transition, and selling. The most powerful message came from Brian Quint with Aqua Quip, who sold to Leslie’s Pools a couple years ago (hear more from Brian on his podcast interview with me). Letter of Intent.

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6 Steps to Make Your Strategic Plan Really Strategic

Harvard Business

And in a small business, like a convenience store, it initially is: customers, employees, suppliers, and owners. Its target customers aren’t mums and dads lodging their annual tax returns, or small businesses that need help with their accounts. Step one is to recognize your dependencies , i.e. your key stakeholders.

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75 Podcast Ideas and Topics to Explore in 2024

Buzzsprout

Celebrity interviews Having celebrities on your podcast is a huge draw to new listeners and can help you get featured on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can add this question to the end of interviews as a segment or structure the whole episode around this one question. Entrepreneurship Know your way around starting a business?

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You Can Be a Great Leader and Also Have a Life

Harvard Business

” In an interview, three CEOs rated as top performers by HBR said the job was 24/7 and admitted they weren’t great role models. The flexible schedule has allowed him to be active in his neighborhood and faith community, and gave him the courage to ask his boss for a six-month sabbatical to travel the country with his family.