When Picking a New CEO, Ask Them for a Growth Plan
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.
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Pricing Consulting Services: A Deep Dive with Garrett Delph: Podcast #353
Consulting Success
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[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?
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Clients Don’t Know They Need Your Consulting Firm? Do This!
David A Fields
MAY 6, 2025
As a consulting firm leader, youve probably wondered more than once how you can increase the Need for the services you offer potential clients. So, how do you? That’s a trick question. Your consulting firm doesnt create or increase needs; you discover or reveal them. If not enough potential clients suffer from the problem you solve, then … Continued The post Clients Don’t Know They Need Your Consulting Firm?
How to Get Celebrity Investors to Back Your Business
Harvard Business
MAY 6, 2025
High-profile shareholders bring more than money—they bring reputation.
What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!
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.
What Is Critical Chain Project Management: A Modern Approach to Optimizing Resources and Overcoming Bottlenecks
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.
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Gold Soars to Another New High, What’s the Message?
MishTalk
MAY 6, 2025
There are three messages. Do you see them?
Management Training Course for Services Firm
LSA Global
MAY 5, 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 customized management training course for managers at a Services firm faced with new leadership, increased competition, and increased pressure to do more with less.
Resource Allocation Best Practices for Project Based Business
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.
Ep. 61: Bridging the Generational Gap During Organizational Change
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.
State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025
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.
Zero Ships from China Headed for the US West Coast, What’s the Math?
MishTalk
MAY 10, 2025
No cargo ships leaving China for the West Coast ports in the past 12 hours.
How Companies Can Mitigate the Harms of AI-Driven Inequality
Harvard Business
MAY 8, 2025
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How Leaders Impact Corporate Culture
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.
From Vague to Vivid: Mastering the Art of Prompt Architecture
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.
PowerPoint Best Practices for Creating Stellar Presentations
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Good-boss friendly
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.
Under What Circumstances Might the US Dollar and the Yuan Both Crash?
MishTalk
MAY 12, 2025
Relative to each other, they can’t. But relative to something else, they easily can.
The Workplace Psychological Contract Is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It
Harvard Business
MAY 6, 2025
What the RTO debate reveals about the gulf between employers and employees.
How Many A Players Make Sense for Your Work Team?
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.
Savings Consultants Are Needed in Today's Market More Than Ever
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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.
Okay, Let’s Begin: Your Basic Premise Is Wrong….
Alan Weiss
MAY 6, 2025
We're here to be respected in business, not loved. We need to challenge, push back, and confront buyers. They are surrounded by people who are obsequious and sycophantic. Why would they need to hire someone from the outside who simply does the same thing but costs more?
Tools and the long tail
Seth Godin Blog
MAY 6, 2025
Have you ever made a video that was seen by someone you didn’t know? Or written something that got shared outside of your inner circle? The odds of either of these things happening a generation ago were close to zero. Now, it’s common. The skeptics said that people wanted to watch videos, not make them. Nearly everyone with a phone is now a self-published media creator.
US and China Slash Tariffs for 90 Days with More Planned Talks
MishTalk
MAY 12, 2025
The stock market is giddy on a tariff reprieve.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on Agility, AI Strategy, and the Changing Role of Managers
Harvard Business
MAY 6, 2025
A conversation with the head of Amazon on their competitive advantage in an age of uncertainty.
TOOLS and METHODOLOGIES for developing DECISION SUPPORT PACKAGES
This White Paper targets opportunities for Management to develop proficiency in the Decision Framing and Analyses element of input to Decision, & Risk Analyses for Major Project Funding Decisions.
Lead From Where You Are: Embracing Everyday Influence
Leadership Vision Consulting
MAY 5, 2025
Real leadership isnt about titles or big momentsits about presence. The most lasting influence often comes through everyday, relational interactions: the quiet moments where we listen, support, and show up for others. In Unfolded: Lessons in Transformation from an Origami Crane, were reminded that transformation begins not with soaring flights, but with paying attention to the creases in our journeythe small steps, the steady rhythm, and the people walking alongside us.
Escaping the Always-On Trap: Finding Balance in a Busy World
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.
Infinity is not a number
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?
Fact Check on Trump’s Claim “We Don’t Do Much Business with Canada”
MishTalk
MAY 8, 2025
“We don’t do much business with Canada from our standpoint, they do a lot of business with us.
Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025
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.
5 Actions to Enhance Shareholder Value in M&A Deals - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM EY
Harvard Business
MAY 8, 2025
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Goals vs. Strategies: Knowing the Difference
LSA Global
MAY 5, 2025
Goals vs. Strategies: Knowing the Difference We know from corporate strategy retreats that some leaders get confused when trying to understand the distinction between goals vs. strategies. While often used interchangeably, we know from organizational alignment research that these two concepts serve different purposes. Failing to differentiate between the two can lead to misguided efforts, wasted resources, and conflicting priorities.
What is the IC Triad and Why Is It Important?
Prudent Pedal
MAY 7, 2025
The IC Triad is a term I coined for one of the three core Systems in the Prudent Pedal Growth Framework. Once the firm sets its strategic direction using the GPS System, the IC Triad serves as the mechanism by which it achieves that direction.
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