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Narrow Your Niche to Win More Work as a Solopreneur

Successful Independent Consulting

KnowYourNiche #SolopreneurSuccess Related Resources: Web workshop: Know Your Niche: Branding to Build Your Business Book: Succeeding as a Solopreneur: Six Keys for Taking the Leap, Winning Clients, and Building Wealth They have a defined niche that makes them easy to remember. Absolutely, but that’s not what makes them unique.

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Small Steps or Big Steps: What’s the Right Way to Begin Improvement?

Markovitz Consulting

He describes his “shock and awe” approach (my terminology) in his excellent book The Lean Turnaround , where he takes the company through several week-long kaizen events. To be sure, there is some up front training, but the emphasis is on starting the lean journey with kaizen events.

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7 Factors of Great Office Design

Harvard Business

It can serve as the basis of a design visioning workshop with a larger group about how and where people work and how they would envision working in new ways in the future. The developer teams realized that they were more interactive than they initially imagined, but also needed quiet space to churn out quick turnaround projects.