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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. A journal is an effective, efficient, private way to take a similar break.

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Do Academic Journals Favor Researchers from Their Own Institutions?

Harvard Business

Are academic journals impartial? While many would suggest that academic journals work for the advancement of knowledge and science, we show this is not always the case. In a recent study , we find that two international relations (IR) journals favor articles written by authors who share the journal’s institutional affiliation.

Journal 28
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7 Reasons Why Your Clients Aren't "Getting It" When you Talk and Write About What You Do

Consulting Matters

When you try to talk to everybody, you talk to nobody and you'll wind up trying to sell your methodologies to anyone who will buy them and truth is - no one wants your methodology. There are so many things that we're experts in and so many processes and methodologies we use to create results for our clients.

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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Executive leadership and organizational performance: Suggestions for a new theory and methodology. Journal of Management, 14(3), 453-464. Journal of Management Research, 1(4), 254. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93(6), 1438-1446. Journal of Public Relations Research, 26: 256–279. Collins, J. HarperBusiness.

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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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Consulting Sales Systems That Work for Introverts with Bob Burg: Podcast #16

Consulting Success

He enjoyed the job but wasn’t very good at it simply because he wasn’t interested in journalism. Without a passion for journalism, he knew he needed to make a career change and graduated into sales. He started out as a sports broadcaster for a local radio station, then landed a spot as a TV news broadcaster.

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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. But what about in other aspects of business? An outsider may ask, how is this possible?

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