Research: Are You Penalizing Your Best Employees for Unplugging?
Harvard Business
MAY 12, 2025
A new study found that employees who disconnect from work are seen as more effective by their managers—but also less promotable.
Harvard Business
MAY 12, 2025
A new study found that employees who disconnect from work are seen as more effective by their managers—but also less promotable.
David A Fields
MAY 13, 2025
Your consulting firm is chock full of problem solvers, synthesizers, and connect-the-dotters. Yep, youre a bastion of cerebral smarty-pants, and your firm uses its mega-intellect to set your clients on the path to success. Sure, some clients toss around scientific terms like petabyte, zetabyte and yottabyte while you fall back on gibberish like GenAI enablement, … Continued The post Your Consulting Firms Message Isnt LandingHeres Why appeared first on David A.
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Consulting Success
MAY 12, 2025
[podcast_headshot url=”[link] How does a consultant transition from building digital products to establishing a specialized operations consulting firm, growing it to a 15-person team without ever running a single advertisement?
Epicflow
MAY 8, 2025
Traditional project management methods are often insufficient for the present-day uncertain and resource-constrained project management landscape. This is where critical chain project management comes into play. In contrast to other methodologies, this project management tool helps optimize resource utilization , reduce bottlenecks, and address uncertainties.
Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker
Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.
Tom Spencer
MAY 9, 2025
In the world of competitive strategy , companies are often laser-focused on their direct competitors. They track market share, pricing, and innovation trends, all in an effort to stay one step ahead. But while theyre busy battling familiar rivals, a hidden threat often goes unnoticed: substitutes. Substitutes rarely announce themselves with fanfare.
Management Consulting Connection brings together the best content for management consulting professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
MishTalk
MAY 10, 2025
No cargo ships leaving China for the West Coast ports in the past 12 hours.
LSA Global
MAY 12, 2025
How Many A Players Make Sense for Your Work Team? We know from action learning leadership development programs that most executives want to hire as many A players as possible to accelerate their strategic growth plans. But in practice, a talent management strategy that relies on stacking a team with top talent isnt always realistic or the best path to consistently deliver exceptional results.
Epicflow
MAY 14, 2025
The increasing impact of digitalization and big data requires new approaches to project management to increase project performance and improve resource utilization. In this regard, project management AI software meets these needs by equipping companies with the right tools to manage projects and resources most effectively. But its very easy to get lost in the wide range of tools available on the market, isnt it?
Progressus
MAY 12, 2025
The lifeblood of Project-based services firms like Consulting firms and IT services firms are its skilled resources. Therefore, maintaining optimum utilization is key. These resources are a great example of a knowledge worker. Their value is derived from their skills. Maintaining and increasing their skills is essential and directly impacts their ability to generate revenue for the organization.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.
Harvard Business
MAY 8, 2025
The way a candidate talks about the future can tell you a lot about their assumptions, ambition, self-awareness, and openness to being vulnerable.
MishTalk
MAY 12, 2025
Relative to each other, they can’t. But relative to something else, they easily can.
LSA Global
MAY 8, 2025
How Leaders Impact Corporate Culture: The True Architects of Organizational Success Corporate culture is often discussed as if it evolves naturally, like weather patterns shifting across the seasons. Yet in reality, culture doesnt just happen its created, by design or by default, by the formal and informal leaders who shape the organization’s environment, business practices , behaviors, and values every single day.
Harmonious Workplaces
MAY 12, 2025
Organizational change is an inherent aspect of the modern workplace. Successfully navigating these transitions necessitates a deep understanding of the unique dynamics present within a multi-generational workforce. A recent episode […] The post Ep. 61: Bridging the Generational Gap During Organizational Change appeared first on Harmonious Workplaces.
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Chad Barr
MAY 7, 2025
You wouldn’t hire a contractor and say, “Build me something… nice.” Yet that’s how most people talk to AI. A well-structured prompt is the architectural blueprint that turns raw data into a skyscraper of insights. Without it, you’re piling bricks in hopes they arrange themselves into something useful—and they never do.
Harvard Business
MAY 8, 2025
Strategies to navigate across six societal divides that AI is threatening to supercharge.
MishTalk
MAY 12, 2025
The stock market is giddy on a tariff reprieve.
Seth Godin Blog
MAY 12, 2025
Little kids get confused about this… just add a few more to a very big number, and you have infinity. Actually, infinity is a feeling and a concept built on the presumption that it can never be reached. In a metrics-driven world, infinity is a dangerous thing to wish for, because it can never be achieved. Exactly how many followers/sales/resources/compliments would be enough?
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Savings Consultants are needed in today’s market more than ever. With an increase in expenses, businesses are looking for opportunities to save. Often unknown to businesses are savings in expense reduction, specialized tax savings, specialized savings including medical underpayments, health benefits cost reduction, zero cost processing, and more. Blue Coast Savings, with over 20 years in business, assists Savings Consultants in helping these companies move toward more profitable businesses.
Peter Stark
MAY 13, 2025
Effective communication is key to being an effective leader. Yet, not all conversations go as smoothly as we would like. Particularly when you need to address performance issues with an employee who resists acknowledging them, we have all been there, dreading that tough conversation. In this situation, you need the right approach to gain the desired outcome.
1 to 1
MAY 13, 2025
Traditional quality assurance (QA) tools have always had limitations. They typically capture less than 3% of interactions, which means theres no way they cant deliver a complete picture of customer sentiment, satisfaction, or whats really happening in the contact center. As consumer expectations rise, crafting a customer experience (CX) strategy around such a small sample size no longer makes sense.
Harvard Business
MAY 8, 2025
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MishTalk
MAY 13, 2025
Looking ahead, year-over-year comparisons are very difficult. That’s on top of tariffs.
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Seth Godin Blog
MAY 8, 2025
Workers have rarely gotten the long end of the stick. The seduction of “do what you’re told and you’ll win valuable prizes” often doesn’t hold up to scrutiny, and so it’s not surprising that many people are skeptical about delivering something extra–work is called work for a reason. At the same time, one of the best career choices you can make is to hire a great boss.
Alan Weiss
MAY 14, 2025
You don't fail with a proposal when you submit it and the buyer rejects it. You fail when you and the buyer have not achieved conceptual agreement on outcomes, metrics, value, and ROI prior to creating the proposal.
Tom Spencer
MAY 9, 2025
Welcome to the third and last article in this introductory series on Choice Theory and Reality Therapy (CTRT)! In this article, we will focus on pursuing balance in life from a CTRT perspective. As a quick recap: In the first article , we highlighted that achieving balance in life is all about meeting 5 basic needs, and that our work satisfies each of us in different ways through realising pictures in our unique Quality Worlds.
Harvard Business
MAY 14, 2025
This research-backed roadmap can help brands proactively unpack, assess, and optimize their content’s potential.
Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System
Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.
MishTalk
MAY 14, 2025
Depending on where you eat, prices were up or down in April.
Seth Godin Blog
MAY 14, 2025
We expend effort. We create value. It’s easy to get confused about which one we’re going to ultimately be compensated for.
Kraft Kennedy
MAY 13, 2025
Reflections on ILTA Evolve: A First-Time Volunteers Experience Before delving into my personal conference highlights, I would like to provide a brief overview of the ILTA Evolve conference and what inspired me to volunteer. The International Legal Technology Association, or ILTA for short, is the trusted global resource community for legal technologists’ Evolve , a dynamic conference born out what was historically ILTA LegalSec, seeks to bring together professionals who specialize in legal
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