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Can Consulting Make a Positive Social Impact?

Tom Spencer

These students coordinate the activities of five innovators while reporting to the Director of Operations on the Executive Board. In addition to the normal skill sessions, students in the management level also attend seminars to improve their leadership skills.

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Critical Analysis Skills can put you a Step Ahead

Tom Spencer

Innovation is of great importance to corporations as new methods can be used to operate more effectively and efficiently, which can ultimately impact profitability. If you end up in a highly specialised field, then you will typically have access to seminars and guest speakers who will explain specific topics that may be unclear.

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Bad Boss or Good Boss: Who Do Your Work For?

Rick Conlow

Operates with position power. So, keep learning: read leadership books, attend seminars and webinars, and get a personal coach. Interviews in seven hundred companies of 2 million employees suggest that the productivity of employees depends on their relationship to their boss. Also, how do you stack up on these characteristics?

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Charlie the Farmer; Do What You Do Best

Martinka Consulting

They have 10 large greenhouses, acres of crops, and quite a few employees, in their year-round operation. Farmers go to University seminars and those seminars are always three years behind what the farmers are doing every day. If someone asks me to help them improve their factory’s operations, I will politely decline.

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Less Marketing, More Consulting — How To Win Projects Within Your Network with Stuart Friedman: Podcast #19

Consulting Success

In the same conversation, Stuart has heard executives boast about their advanced technology, experienced and talented employees, and operational excellence, and then go on to share the less-impressive facts that they have missed revenue goals, have too-high expenses and are facing disappointing and surprising forecasts coming in again.

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Your Strategic Plans Probably Aren’t Strategic, or Even Plans

Harvard Business

At the start of my public seminars on strategic planning I ask attendees, who rank from board members and CEOs to middle management, to write down an example of a strategy on a sheet of paper. Let’s go back to our seminar list and take one of the responses: “achieve $100m net revenue.”

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Did you do the reading?

Seth Godin Blog

More rude: Going to a PhD seminar and participating in the discussion without reading the book first. And of course, no one wants a surgeon operating on them if she hasn't read the latest journal article on this particular procedure. It's absurd to think of going to a book group meeting and opining about a book you didn't even read.

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