Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Many people think that what has led to Disney’s incredible success over the years is its unique creativity. There are a lot of companies that aspire to what Disney has accomplished. Here’s why I’m telling you this.

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Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 30, 2020

He is an action-oriented visionary who deeply cares about people. But sets him apart from his peers is that no matter what, he JUST. Does fear about money or not having what it takes hold you back? That's what I do. Dan's path to the success that he enjoys today wasn't always a straight shot. Betsy Jordyn: Okay.

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Harvard Business

MAY 2, 2019

Pay less attention to them and more attention to your values.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2019

People splurge when they think they’ve grown.

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Seth Godin Blog

MARCH 29, 2013

Guaranteed to make you think. Seths most personal book, a look at the end of the industrial economy and what happens next. But what do people really think?". What do they think of your product or your sales pitch or your speech? What do they think of your new sweater or your new friend?

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The Management Centre

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Being assertive at work can be really hard, and this is something many people struggle with. In this article, Charlotte Scott explains why we need assertiveness, what it actually is, and how to be assertive. Understanding Assertiveness Many people don’t understand what assertiveness truly is.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 10, 2024

” When I ask people what's happening, they say: We're doing an agile death march because someone else already told us what we have to do and the date it's due. We have too many delays because we don't have enough of the right kind of people. I see many teams and team members who say, “Agile stinks.

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Granite Leadership Strategies

MAY 13, 2024

To go beyond beating up on indirect rates, what can you do? Why is focusing on only indirect rates faulty thinking? This thinking does not leave room in your pricing discussions to consider a new indirect pool approach. Critical thinking about the entirety of the bid early in the process must focus beyond the indirect rates.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Most entrepreneurs and product managers (PMs) know that they need to find out what people want. Without mastering these five concepts, entrepreneurs and PMs are unlikely to discover what customers value, how to monetize that value, or whether the product prototype will meet customer expectations.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 18, 2024

That's why Part 1 of this series discusses your value and what managers want and need. Many testers and UX people also have solution-space expertise, because they understand, from a deep level, how the product works. I expect anyone who understands what customers value and expect to have problem-space expertise.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 1, 2024

While managers think they will get useful results, too often, they don't. And because the hiring manager is only thinking of their time, they don't consider offering you any compensation for your time. Very few other people have that.) So what can a candidate or consultant do to show their skills without working for free?

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Or, we have some remote people, so we need several “places” to meet and the technology to support all those places. Your team does not pass the Allen Curve test of each person being within 8-16 meters of all the other people. Use subheadings, paragraphs, and examples, so people can consume and then use your information.

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The Management Centre

MAY 2, 2024

As someone working in Learning and Development, what do you visualise when you consider the term accessibility? Or is it encouraging the people we work with to disclose their individual needs to us? Or is it encouraging the people we work with to disclose their individual needs to us? Read on to see what she had to say.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 24, 2023

For years, we've used several metaphors to describe software product development: People-based metaphors, such as: Man-weeks for all the humans working on a project or a product. I'm discussing why these metaphors no longer make sense—even if we think they once did. ” He said, “You know what I mean.”

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Leaders often struggle to get complete, unfiltered information from the people around them. Research shows that if you want to learn what those around you really think, feel, and know, there’s only one reliable strategy: asking them.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 9, 2024

Some of what we discussed: That managers want agility but do not care about any agile methods or frameworks. While we might think “agile” is another project organization method—or lifecycle—it's not. And the people in teams cannot lead that organizational cultural change. Agility requires a cultural change.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In this setting, light and introductory-style conversations (what some of us know as “small talk”) can be very helpful, and even necessary. To help you more effectively master the art of small talk, we’ll present in this article a mindset for how to think about small talk and a series of behaviors for how to do small talk.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

” They didn't say what the responsibilities were, so I asked. I asked what I would get in return. The “Best” Exposure Offers Value to Both Parties I'm flexible on what value can be. However, I expect payment in money when people ask me to create new IP. What Makes You Want to Work With Others?

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Buzzsprout

JANUARY 8, 2024

Ask yourself: What is the primary goal of this episode? What is the one thing I want to accomplish or convey? Remember the 5 Ws If you aren't a natural question-asker, you can always go back to who, what, when, where, and why. " What: "What do you do in the podcasting space?"

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2024

From his experience, he shares four strategies to unlock creativity in trainings: 1) Encourage “What if?”, to challenges, 3) give people time to think by encouraging playfulness, and 4) make training a game. 2) respond “How else?”

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Rick Conlow

JULY 28, 2021

These positive thinking quotes can help you change your life for the better. Read these positive thinking quotes and remind yourself of your unlimited potential to reach your goals and to live the success you desire. 10 Potent Positive Thinking Quotes. 10 Potent Positive Thinking Quotes. “What we think, we become.”

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 1, 2024

Let's unpack that, especially if you think successful speakers often deliver keynote talks to thousands of people. Back in 2009, I gave a talk about project portfolio management to a group of about twenty people. Everyone was leaving the conference, and some people left my talk early so they could manage their travel.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 30, 2023

See Which Assumptions Do You Bring to What You Read? (& Most problems need critical thinking skills because what works for one client does not work for another. For example, people know me for my expertise in managing product development. Because people receive high-value outcomes, I can charge a higher fee.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 31, 2023

These smart people ask, “Start with the managers? Here are some: When people don't know what to work on, they start more work. If people have to interrupt what they're doing now, context switch to do something different, and then return to the original work. What is Effective and Efficient?

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

There’s an expression here in the United States that money changes people (for the worse) and that power corrupts people. Instead, I think money and power merely amplify a person’s true values and beliefs. You can be yourself without fear of the consequence of what others might do in response. It’s worth thinking about.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 27, 2022

Years ago, a client of mine taught me an influential leadership framework called: See, Think, Do The idea is that if you want an employee, customer, or partner to do something differently than how they are currently, you need to: 1) Change how they see the situation. 2) This, in turn, changes how they think about the situation.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 11, 2024

Organizations and leaders need to evolve strategic thinking and planning approaches to go beyond what is already understood. So, how can organizations and teams account for uncertainty and make progress on what matters? For example, you could ask, “How may generative AI affect our organization, what should we do, and when?

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 28, 2023

I love the idea of people writing books or theses. Well, I have sympathy for the thesis people, but maybe they can turn their thesis into a book.) Books can help change people's minds. At the very least, books can nudge people to change their thinking. What Does Research Mean to You? That's not research.

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The Management Centre

APRIL 8, 2024

Every action they take is driven by their mission to help people live their best lives. Tell us about what prompted you to commission training for your managers across the Calico Group? What changes were you aiming to see? Every penny matters, because by being efficient and effective it means we can support more and more people.

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Granite Leadership Strategies

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

You probably think good talent is hard to find for your business these days. Once you conduct all the interviews, you are not impressed with any of the candidates, but you are forced to decide because you need to hire someone for the position right now, or so you think. You receive a slew of resumes or applications.

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Makarios Consulting

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

People issues plague business. People problems come in various stripes. There are the toxic superstars: people who produce phenomenally for your company, yet are abrasive to work with. There are the well-meaning non-performers: people who are giving it a go, but don’t seem to get anywhere. What assumptions have you made?

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Halo Psych

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Despite outstanding academic and professional accomplishments, women who experience the impostor phenomenon persist in believing that they are really not bright and have fooled anyone who thinks otherwise.” The belief that anyone can do what you do. Thinking you’re going to fail at something before you’ve even tried.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 16, 2021

And he demands they finish the work faster than the teams think they can. Even when people try to explain to Dan, he doesn't listen. Angry, Dan fires two people: The person who made the bad deployment and that person's manager. Specifically, Dan blames people for unintentional mistakes. People don't feel safe.

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CaseInterview.com

AUGUST 11, 2022

The key to having a wildly successful career and a happy life is to attract the right people towards you. At work, you want the most talented people to want to work for you. Someone who is true to her word does the following: She says what she means. She means what she says. She does what she says she will do.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

” That's where people emulate a Scrum approach, complete with asking the team to do “more.” There are many reasons to use simulations when trying to teach people new material. ” All change requires learning, and that learning often creates chaos where people's performance is uneven. .”

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 27, 2023

Several people have contacted me recently about “missing” articles on this site. But the people contact me because the LLMs (Large Language Models) claim I have written these articles. But here's the thing: if the LLMs can steal my intellectual property, what will they do about yours? How did the LLMs do that?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

GenAI can transform the process of collecting feedback from consumers, reaching more people across more demographics than ever before, and learning more about what they really think. Companies can rescue qualitative survey data from the trash and dig for deeper insights.

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