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Narrow Your Niche to Win More Work as a Solopreneur

Successful Independent Consulting

Many solopreneurs make the mistake of marketing themselves as a jack-of-all-trades. Examples Several years ago, my agency represented a highly talented professional with over 20 years of experience even though he positioned himself as a jack-of-all-trades. For example, Fortune 500 or middle market? The exact opposite is true.

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How to Evaluate Your Marketing Leader’s Performance

Prudent Pedal

If you’re a managing partner, practice leader, sales leader, or chief administrative officer in a professional services firm, you probably have responsibility for “managing” marketing. Prerequisite Reading: We will be evaluating your Marketing leader’s performance based on your firm’s School of Marketing Thought.

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

Successful Independent Consulting

I know a highly talented professional with over 20 years of experience with several Fortune 500 companies. 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.

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PE Firms Are Creating a New Role: Leadership Capital Partner

Harvard Business

Making these shifts requires increased attention to organizational governance around three domains: talent, capability , and leadership. To focus that attention and transform the companies in their portfolios, PE firms are establishing a new role that we call a leadership capital partner (LCP).

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7 Critical Success Factors for Project Based Firms to Consider in 2024

Progressus

According to PWC , talent, technology and data will set winning professional services firms apart from the competition. Human experts (talent) – and the knowledge and skills they bring to the table – are responsible for generating business value and differentiating their firm from the competition. Retain talent? Market trends?

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When Is Teamwork Really Necessary?

Harvard Business

While the group liked getting together and engaging in some joint activities — such as goal setting, best-practice sharing, and talent development — people often wondered why they were in the room. Talent Developers: attract, assess, develop, and retain talent. Talent developers. of Overall Teaming Effort.

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Private Equity’s New Phase

Harvard Business

These buy outs shifted agency from owners to managers; “corporate raiders” worked with high-yield debt to fund these turnarounds. These “buy, fix, manage, and then sell” PE firms were essentially umbrella holding companies while the acquired firms would become better managed before returning to the public market.

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