David A Fields
APRIL 22, 2025
Sit back and imagine your consulting firm as pure, rich, creamy scoops of ice cream. Prospects and consulting opportunities are the hot fudge that pours onto your icy practice in a steady, glossy stream of chocolatey richness. When you put it that way, its hard not to like consulting, right? Except, that you need to … Continued The post 5 Steps to Effective, Consulting Firm Marketing appeared first on David A.
Tom Spencer
APRIL 25, 2025
Imagine spending months crafting a detailed, data-driven strategy , only to watch it gather dust on a shelf. This scenario plays out far too often in the corporate world. In a rapidly shifting business landscape, with advances like AI, quantum computing, advanced robotics, blockchain, and gene editing, spending valuable time and resources developing a strategically useless plan may be more damaging than having no strategy at all.
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Clarity Consultants
APRIL 18, 2025
Soft skills separate a competent employee from a great one. Communicating, managing conflict, and adapting under pressure isn’t optional; it’s essential. Yet many organizations still struggle to develop these skills at scale, especially in remote or hybrid environments. Here is where soft skills training becomes important. Unlike hard skills, soft skills such as active listening, emotional intelligence, and critical thinking can’t be mastered through static content alone.
Consulting Success
APRIL 21, 2025
The world is always changing, and big global events like trade wars, political conflicts, or new government rules can shake up your consulting business. Clients may cut budgets, laws may shift, and industries may struggle. If youre not prepared, you could lose income and face major setbacks. Thats why the most important asset you could.
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.
Harvard Business
APRIL 21, 2025
By reverse engineering your team’s workflow, you can customize generic AI tools to fit your processes.
Management Consulting Connection brings together the best content for management consulting professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC
APRIL 22, 2025
Your organization was founded on and has worked to maintain a culture of mutual support and respect. These ideals are even memorialized in your organizations values. However, instead of an organization with seamless and respectful communications, supportive cross-team collaborations, and solid performance, youve got departmental silos, inter and intra-team conflicts, and performance thats anything but […] The post Competence Bias is Killing Your Organization appeared first on Weber Busines
Chad Barr
APRIL 23, 2025
Here’s one of those moments where technology doesn’t just assist—it accelerates your brilliance. Today, I uncovered another mind-expanding capability of ChatGPT. I asked it to help generate high-impact content ideas across several key insight categories that align with the emotional drivers and behavioral patterns of my ideal clients.
Tom Spencer
APRIL 18, 2025
In todays fast-paced digital world, businesses must be agile, innovative, and customer-centric. One of the most effective ways to achieve this is through data-driven product development. By leveraging insights gained from data analytics, companies can make smarter decisions, create products that better meet customer needs, and ultimately stay ahead of the competition.
Harvard Business
APRIL 18, 2025
Six ways to navigate the relationship.
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Kraft Kennedy
APRIL 23, 2025
Microsoft has confirmed that Office 2016 and Office 2019 will reach the end of extended support on October 14, 2025. This means that after this date, Microsoft will no longer provide security updates, bug fixes, or technical support for these versions of Office. What Does This Mean for Office 2016 and Office 2019 Users? While Office 2016 and 2019 applications will continue to function, using unsupported software poses significant risks , including: Security vulnerabilities : Without security upd
Prudent Pedal
APRIL 22, 2025
The 6 Professional Services “Marketing” Roles that Matter Several years ago, I began describing six essential marketing roles that every growth-focused professional services firm needs. Not job titles. Not skillsets. But rolesarchetypes that show up across the organization and make growth happen, whether they sit in marketing, sales, or delivery.
LSA Global
APRIL 22, 2025
Redwood Shores, CA LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a Potential Leader Training for HIPOs at a life sciences company. The new manager training results were: 100% Job Relevance 100% Satisfaction 163% Knowledge Gain 93.8% Net Promoter Score Facing increased competition and installing a new corpora
Tom Spencer
APRIL 25, 2025
In my career, I’ve often seen technical expertise what we call hard skills acclaimed as the cornerstone of professional success. While this is true to a degree, Ive learned that its not enough. The ability to navigate complex challenges, influence stakeholders, and inspire teams requires something more: soft skills. Skills like effective communication, emotional intelligence, adaptability, and resilience are often the deciding factor in whether someone thrives or stalls in their career.
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Harvard Business
APRIL 22, 2025
How to navigate this regression—and prepare for a resurgence down the line.
Harmonious Workplaces
APRIL 21, 2025
Welcome, fellow harmonious workplace seekers! In episode 58 of the Harmonious Workplaces podcast, hosts Rich Cruz, Sharyl Volpe, and Ben Kleinman delve into a crucial aspect of organizational evolution: The […] The post Ep. 58: The Role of Mentoring / Coaching in Supporting Change appeared first on Harmonious Workplaces.
Seth Godin Blog
APRIL 18, 2025
Teachers and organizations benefit from both, but they’re not the same. Engagement is the delight we have when we lean into the process. Engagement happens when social media is optimized for maximum focus, and it also can be seen in a student who’s in sync with a teacher who cares. Enrollment is a commitment to change. Enrollment in the process means we’re willing to push through the difficult parts because the outcome is part of our goal.
LSA Global
APRIL 21, 2025
When to Conduct an Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) We know from organizational culture assessment data that traditional org. charts rarely capture how work truly gets done on a day-to-day basis. Why? Because formal hierarchies rarely reflect the key influencers, communication bottlenecks, and informal networks that help or hinder change initiatives, strategy execution, or decision making.
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Tom Spencer
APRIL 18, 2025
One of the biggest mistakes project managers and founders make is chasing every feature customers suggest. Customer understanding is key to good product design. We often rush out to gather feedback, returning with endless lists of “must-have” features. However, these features arent always what customers need theyre just what they think they want.
Harvard Business
APRIL 21, 2025
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MishTalk
APRIL 21, 2025
The US is building expensive terminals to export LNG. Now what?
Seth Godin Blog
APRIL 23, 2025
On the factory floor, productivity increases are relentlessly implemented, often without regard for worker satisfaction. For people working with a laptop, though, they are often seen as optional lifestyle choices instead of ways to significantly boost how much we can get done–and the satisfaction that comes with time we control. If you work on your own, your productivity choices are up to you.
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Strategic Planning and Management Insights
APRIL 22, 2025
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Alan Weiss
APRIL 22, 2025
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Harvard Business
APRIL 24, 2025
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MishTalk
APRIL 19, 2025
Two more tariff announcements, one on port fees, the other on China isolation were added and removed.
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.
Seth Godin Blog
APRIL 22, 2025
Technical debt is easy to incur. It’s unnecessary added features, undocumented code, support for outmoded interactions and anything that slows down your ability to update and upgrade your work. Tech debt is the combination of doing what feels right at the time, in a hurry, and then having to maintain it and understand it going forward. Vibe coding, which is a rising trend, pairs a human programmer with an AI like chatGPT.
Clarity Consultants
APRIL 18, 2025
The traditional one-size-fits-all approach to learning is increasingly ineffective as data shows that learners retain information in varied ways. Adaptive learning , driven by data and technology, has emerged as an essential method to deliver personalized development, optimizing learner engagement and improving educational outcomes. What is Adaptive Learning?
Buzzsprout
APRIL 20, 2025
Podcasts have become one of the most popular forms of media in the world, but what exactly is a podcast? At its core, a podcast is a series ofon-demand digital audio filesthat listeners can stream or download. Thesefilesare usually centered around a specific theme orpodcast topicand published regularly asnew episodes. You can listen on the go, on your commute, or while cooking dinner, which is part of what makes podcasting so powerful.
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