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7 Reasons Why Your Clients Aren't "Getting It" When you Talk and Write About What You Do

Consulting Matters

They try to sit down and write copy for their website or marketing or a simple blog post and they face writer's block so intense that it's a miracle that more computers of consultants and coaches aren't flung against the wall. Try handwriting your ideas in a journal. And will gladly pay you. They want your results.

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The More Senior Your Job Title, the More You Need to Keep a Journal

Harvard Business

The best thinking comes from structured reflection — and the best way to do that is keeping a personal journal. I started keeping a journal when I took over a manufacturing research, software, and consulting firm. I was very young, we were in crisis facing a challenging market, and I wasn’t sure whom I could rely on.

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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

A controlled study involving leaders across different markets found a positive correlation between the leader's effectiveness and employee retention, sales, margin, labor costs, and net profit. times greater financial returns than market averages. Journal of Management, 14(3), 453-464. Journal of Management Research, 1(4), 254.

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It’s Time to Make Business School Research More Relevant

Harvard Business

In an Academy of Management Journal editorial, we described two problems that contribute to this challenge. Researchers have found that managers tend to be unaware of research-supported management insights reported in academic journals, and that such insights are typically excluded in practitioner-oriented journals.

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Business Valuation Lessons From ESOPs

Martinka Consulting

Methodologies : The second red-flag topic is the improper use of valuation methodologies. As I write this, according to the Wall Street Journal, the current PE ratio for the S&P 500 is 25.89. For small businesses, it’s 3-5 times profit (after fair market owner compensation). An outsider may ask, how is this possible?

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Is Gathering Real Time "Inflation" Data With Smart Phones a "Game Changer"?

MishTalk

The Wall Street Journal claims Real-Time Economic Data Could Be a Game Changer. Fatal Flaws in Inflation Tracking Methodology. Currently, the stock market and bond market are both in bubble territory because of the Fed''s inflationary practices. Having up-to-date information is quite valuable.".

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Consultant Ninja: Friedman Billings Ramsey and Tom Peters.

Consultant Ninja

Friedman Billings Ramsey was hot back in 2005 - boutique investment bank, middle market, a cool FBR acronym. The longer I am in business, the more allergic I am becoming to business gurus and journals (Tom Peters, Gary Hamel, HBR, McK Quarterly, etc). The investment bank still operates as FBR Capital Markets. Related Posts.