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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. a 525-employee software company, began applying agile methodologies in 2005.

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

Harvard Business

As a VP of sales and marketing for Becker-Birnbaum International, a global consumer products company, Aliyah knew she needed a talented marketing director to support her division’s portfolio of 34 products. He also asked about the new subscription program, referencing a recent white paper on trends in subscription business models.

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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. Or they may even put the entire company up for sale. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Then it wasn’t.