The Fearless Marketer

MAY 11, 2020

Quick, what is something that you know better than anyone else, but take for granted? Yes, this thing you’re reading right now. What valuable skill or talent do you take for granted? But you rarely consult, coach, or train on this expertise of yours. ” You may be extraordinary at negotiating things.

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Martinka Consulting

AUGUST 21, 2021

Recently I had a Rotary Global Grant approved for our ongoing work in Antigua. As I was writing the grant, I realized there are a lot of similarities between our project, the grant process, and our day-to-day work with clients buying and selling businesses. We get a lot done.

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Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

They explain, “because our minds seek one another through limbic resonance, because our physiological rhythms answer to the call of limbic regulation, because we can one another’s brains through limbic revision – what we do inside relationships matters more than any other aspect of human life.” Let me explain.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 30, 2021

When I talk to my friends in consulting (across all firms and types of consulting), it amuses me that the early career mistakes we have made and witnessed are eerily similar across the board. Overcommitting to too many things. Granted there are always rough patches in consulting whereby a project can have a stretch of late nights.

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Seth Godin Blog

MAY 12, 2017

What if the apparently intractable cultural issues that you take for granted were instead seen as problems on your desk, things you could influence? What if the rules others take for granted are seen by you and your team as standards you can change? But what if it was?

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Seth Godin Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Perhaps we could consider writing on one instead. Inscribing all the things we’re grateful for, all the people who show up in our lives. It might not be autumn where you live, but the iconography of the large orange pumpkin travels around the world. Thank you for caring, for showing up and especially, for leading.

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Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2017

Consultant to individuals, nonprofits, and corporations in the areas of strategic philanthropy, partnership development, grant making, and evaluation. Many people who embark on the independent professional path think they should define their services broadly so they will look like a good fit for many projects. The exact opposite is true.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

APRIL 7, 2023

One thing: Back in the early 2000s when I was working with folks like AmEx, YellowTail, and Coca-Cola, creating unique events was at the heart of what made me successful. Innovation is about mixing three things: creativity, insight, and courage. Innovation is about mixing three things: creativity, insight, and courage.

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Martinka Consulting

APRIL 19, 2017

Last month I had eye surgery and a blurry eye makes you realize how we take sight, hearing, health, and other things for granted. So, what do we (most people) take for granted in our businesses? The above said, many, many employers do take care of their employees and their customers.

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Seth Godin Blog

AUGUST 27, 2022

The first marketing problem is that when it works we take the intervention for granted. The world doesn’t fall apart, and we don’t notice, because our expectation was that the world (whatever world matters to you) should stay on course. Banning cigarettes in bars saved thousands of lives.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 19, 2022

The general outlook for 2022 is rather optimistic – the industry is going to take further steps towards producing smarter vehicles. What else should we expect in 2022? So, in 2022, we expect that car manufacturers will be focused on producing more electric cars fitted with more advanced capabilities.

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Seth Godin Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

We need things and we buy them. In many cases, particularly with luxury goods, it’s this emotional shift that we’re actually paying for, not the thing we’re buying. More stuff might not be the substitute for the things that we truly want. That’s not what shopping is.

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Seth Godin Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

It takes a lot of energy to get the thing started, and the orbit is the goal–there are still satellites up there, circling, decades after launching. After all, you’re asking people to add one more thing to their reading list, something that no one has read yet. The launch is fraught.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Here''s an interesting video from the recent James Grant Conference. James Grant on Price Discovery and Inflation James Grant takes the podium at about the 25 minute mark with a joke about the title of his publication, Grant''s Interest Rate Observer. We used to have them and they were swell. asked Grant?

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The Fearless Marketer

DECEMBER 7, 2020

This year I realized that a marketing thing I’ve always been good at was not something I was actually teaching to my clients. Perhaps I took it for granted and just recommended that they do this particular thing, without giving them much guidance or direction. And now things are really starting to click! None of that.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 27, 2023

We consider trust as the foundation of all healthy relationships – both personal and professional. In a nut shell, you will know you have been able to build leadership team trust when team members feel psychologically safe to communicate openly and honestly , and comfortable enough to take reasonable risks to learn and grow.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JANUARY 8, 2024

As we begin this new year, I encourage you to spend some quiet time reflecting on this past year - the unforeseen challenges, the changes you made to your leadership habits, and what is most important. The ability to question personal and organizational assumptions and beliefs taken for granted enables leaders to learn from experiences.

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Comatch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Basing a match on how things look “on paper” can quickly go wrong. Even if the consultant has the correct technical skills, relevant experience, and impressive client examples, if their personality doesn’t align with your internal team’s, things are not likely to progress smoothly. This misalignment can lead to issues on both sides.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JUNE 12, 2023

If you are looking for a good discussion topic at an upcoming meeting, take some time to ask those attending how they would describe the organization's culture. It is easy to focus on the things that are visible to describe an organization's culture. The world needs leaders that aspire to create a better tomorrow.

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Seth Godin Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

When people talk about life and say, “there’s no such thing as luck,” they might be referring to the fact that in the long run, people who are prepared, persistent and granted the benefit of the doubt often do okay. They can take profits from early luck and apply them to areas where upsides will eventually appear.

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Harmonious Workplaces

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A path on my running route overgrown but still visible. This morning, I attended a Momentum session of the Society for Evidence-Based Organizational Consulting (SEBOC). Facilitated by Christina Walsh, the topic of discussion involved the “refraction points” (Nour, 2023) in our lives and careers , which bend our trajectory in new directions.

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Seth Godin Blog

APRIL 28, 2017

Those bedrock institutions, the foundational supports you take for granted--they rarely last forever. Nurturing and investing in the things we need and count on needs to be higher on the agenda. Things that appear to be made of granite rarely are. Look around for a second.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 11, 2013

“It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one meaningless life of yours” (Tim Minchin). We tend to agree. Your next worthy pursuit will more than likely be a shiny thing that appears suddenly and unexpectedly on the periphery of your vision. “TIM Minchin is a genius, pure and simple.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

On campus, I was involved in a consulting organisation where we did project work for clients, but I questioned if the skills I gained would be transferrable and applicable. In the end, although I tried to take their advice to heart, a part of me still wanted to make sure I was at the top of my game. It didn’t feel “real” enough.

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NeoAcademic

APRIL 16, 2021

We’re currently in the midst of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology’s annual conference, which as appropriate to a pandemic, is mostly via Zoom. Classifying podcasts as “I-O podcasts” is a trickier thing than you might imagine. Over three thousand people are participating.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Most companies take it for granted that their top leaders can operationally handle the day-to-day leadership pressures required to meet short-term targets, establish a high performance culture to engage and retain top talent, and simultaneously be masters of their area of expertise. Here is what we mean.

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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

A lottery is an almost random event, a longshot, one that promises to change your life (for the better if it’s a money thing, for the worse if it’s medical, etc.). Getting hit by lightning, finding the perfect job, having a djinni grant three wishes–these are all lotteries. He was on an electric skateboard.

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Epicflow

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

With DataGuard, we provide cloud service while making it possible to keep your data on premises. For instance, you can ask Epica if you can take a day off at a certain time or when it’s better for you to take a vacation. This means that for any operation in the Epicflow system, your business data remains secure on your servers.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The internet fundamentally changed the way we live, work, and play, and the nature of work itself has transitioned in large part from algorithmic tasks to heuristic ones that require critical thinking, problem-solving, and creativity. zodebala/Getty Images. The eight-hour workday harkens back to 19-century socialism.

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Jerry Fletcher

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

We’ll be Zooming next week because she has that innate need to find out how this business works and what it takes to be successful. Employing this technique does two things: You will learn a great deal more about that individual than you ever imagined. How do you take that resume out and convince someone to hire you as a consultant?

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 25, 2021

We hit it off over sushi and he set up dinner with Bob and Wendy Weiler on my next trip to Maine. My Brimstone colleagues value this experience and grant me the freedom to bring what I have learned into the methods we use to help clients. One thing that we can do is to maintain that stand when our clients don’t yet see it.

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Seth Godin Blog

APRIL 5, 2017

If you've seen enough movies, you've probably bought into the homunculus model of AI--that it's in the future and it represents a little mechanical man in a box, as mysterious in his motivations as we are. And no one complained when the computer found 100 flights faster and better than we ever could.

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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Earlier this year, we shared a list of 31 books on leadership and change. Comprised of books we have found helpful in our careers and ones we often recommend to leaders, the list included recent publications and ones that have stood the test of time. New Books on Leadership and Change. 8 Insightful New Reads.

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The bottom of the stack is essential, but it always gets easier to take for granted. All of these things used to be really hard, random in their reliability, precious when they worked. And then we''ll figure those out and the stack will get taller still. Of course the email engine works every day.

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Halo Psych

MAY 16, 2022

We’re only into the third year of the 2020s and it already feels like we’ve lived through a century worth of events. Adam Grant, Think Again Some industries and sectors are incredibly complex, with all sorts of rules, regulations, policies and bureaucracy. Dheeraj Pandey, Founder, CEO and Chairman of Nutanix.

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Seth Godin Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

The easiest way to demonstrate that is with a simple question, one that challenges unexamined belief with the need to understand how things work. Once we understand how things work, we have a chance to interact with them. First, though, we need to understand the mechanism. The world is not flat. Where is it?

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

If you're in the knowledge worker category, it's critical that you do not take that advantaged position in life for granted. We competed a lot with each other as kids growing up.). As part of this process, I made a list of the things I did in my 20's that I still do now that I turned 40 years old.

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