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Need Clients Now? 5 Strategies to Quickly Get More Consulting Clients

Consulting Matters

Bring business cards and eBooks/white papers if you have them. Do you focus your energy on selling yourself, your mission or methodology OR do you position yourself as a strategic partner who is ready to help solve a clients most pressing business performance challenges. Dress to CONNECT (not impress) – be approachable.

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Need Clients Now? 5 Strategies to Quickly Get More Consulting Clients

Consulting Matters

Bring business cards and eBooks/white papers if you have them. Do you focus your energy on selling yourself, your mission or methodology OR do you position yourself as a strategic partner who is ready to help solve a clients most pressing business performance challenges. Dress to CONNECT (not impress) – be approachable.

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business

They have to decide where to adopt agile principles and mindsets, where to use agile problem-solving methodologies to dynamically address strategic and organizational challenges, and where to more formally deploy the full agile model, including self-managed teams. This type of management boosts the velocity of decision making.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. But first they need to get management of a company to change the existing strategy. of the company.

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TOOLS and METHODOLOGIES for developing DECISION SUPPORT PACKAGES

This White Paper targets opportunities for Management to develop proficiency in the Decision Framing and Analyses element of input to Decision, & Risk Analyses for Major Project Funding Decisions.

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Case Study: Should an Algorithm Tell You Who to Promote?

Harvard Business

After working with HR to narrow down the list of candidates, she had two finalists, both internal: Molly Ashworth, a brand manager on her team in the cleaning division, and Ed Yu, a rising star from BBI’s beauty division. Aliyah liked Molly and respected her work. But his answers and even questions seemed a bit rehearsed, stiff even.

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Driving Employee Engagement: How Good Managers Do It

Effective Managers

Many employees feel that good managers are rare. It is simply unnerving to look at the common bad experiences of employees with their managers. In addition, the science tells us that the employee’s relationship with their managers is the main factor in the level of that employee’s engagement. Why is it unnerving?