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When to Say “No” vs. “Yes I Can” to Consulting Opportunities

David A Fields

FishCo) asks whether you can help with his plasma node leadership challenge. Two options: “Yes I can!” Although plasma node leadership isn’t your consulting firm’s focus, you feel great about the lucrative project you’re about to capture. “No, Barnstable Balderdally, EVP at Ghoti Corporation (a.k.a.

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The Pair of Hands Trap: What Keeps Consultants From Strategic Client Partnership

Consulting Matters

Today I'll discuss the positioning traps that hold consultants back from their impact and earning potential. To set the context for what I mean by positioning traps – I need to take you back in time to 1997 when m y mentor and professor told me – people don't get what you do and what you can offer as an organizational consultant.

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Need Clients Now? 5 Strategies to Quickly Get More Consulting Clients

Consulting Matters

If you want to achieve sustainable success as a consultant - ideally you want to create a marketing system to ensure you have a consistently full pipeline of right-fit clients. However, there will be times when you have to feel the cash flow pressure and need to find clients.right now! Before we get started. The 5 Tactics.

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Need Clients Now? 5 Strategies to Quickly Get More Consulting Clients

Consulting Matters

If you want to achieve sustainable success as a consultant - ideally you want to create a marketing system to ensure you have a consistently full pipeline of right-fit clients. However, there will be times when you have to feel the cash flow pressure and need to find clients.right now! Before we get started. The 5 Tactics.

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Faster Management Decisions Can Lead to More Ease and Better Results, Part 4

Johanna Rothman

If we want more ease and better results, we need to be able to change when the world changes. When we do, and we learn something, we might feel better about our circumstances and become more open to change. When we do, and we learn something, we might feel better about our circumstances and become more open to change.

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4 Principles to Grow Your Consulting Business

Consulting Success

I used to compete against an Olympian – a guy I called The Incredible Hulk. His name was Dylan Armstrong, and he was my nemesis back in the days when I was a serious track and field athlete in high school. But the one guy I couldn’t beat was Dylan. But the one guy I couldn’t beat was Dylan.

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Harvard junior weighs internships in VC and Consulting

Management Consulted

Pierre was a junior at Harvard University who was offered 2 very exciting internships – one for BCG in management consulting (plus, after this call he got an offer for Bain as well) and the other for a VC firm in New York. Want to know the pros/cons of consulting vs. VC from our perspective? Are you in the same shoes?