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?
Harvard Business
MAY 6, 2025
High-profile shareholders bring more than money—they bring reputation.
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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.
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.
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.
MishTalk
MAY 6, 2025
There are three messages. Do you see them?
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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.
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.
Tom Spencer
MAY 3, 2025
For decades, first-mover advantage has been a prized concept in business strategy. The idea is simple: be the first to enter a market, capture customer loyalty, and build an insurmountable lead over competitors.From Amazons early dominance in online retail to Ubers disruption of traditional taxi services, being the first to market has long been seen as a pathway to monopoly-like success.
MishTalk
MAY 3, 2025
The technical patterns on long-dated treasuries suggest rising yields.
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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.
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.
Harvard Business
MAY 6, 2025
What the RTO debate reveals about the gulf between employers and employees.
Prudent Pedal
MAY 3, 2025
From Boardrooms to Caves Back to the Boardroom Theres a scene in the original Iron Man movie that says more about the future of professional services than most strategy decks ever could. Trapped in a cave, surrounded by scrap metal and insurgents, Tony Stark doesnt just survivehe reinvents himself.
Tom Spencer
MAY 3, 2025
Last weeks article intro duced Glassers Choice Theory and Reality Therapy ( CTRT ) and the 5 basic needs that we each continuously try to satisfy by realising pictures in our Quality World. This second article will focus on an unfortunately common phenomenon at work: frustration. Weve all heard about, or maybe even lived through, endlessly frustrating workplace situations like the micromanaging boss or the 16-hour work-day.
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MishTalk
MAY 3, 2025
Since 2014, Amazon has gone from 0% to 28% of package delivery.
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.
Harvard Business
MAY 8, 2025
Strategies to navigate across six societal divides that AI is threatening to supercharge.
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?
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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.
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.
MishTalk
MAY 8, 2025
“We don’t do much business with Canada from our standpoint, they do a lot of business with us.
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.
Harvard Business
MAY 6, 2025
A conversation with the head of Amazon on their competitive advantage in an age of uncertainty.
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Halo Psych
MAY 6, 2025
12-minute read It’s May 2025, as I write this, and it’s that time of year again when the annual performance appraisal/review discussions takes place in organisations around the world. And never is there something that elicits as many groans and grumbles as the annual performance appraisal. Managers don’t look forward to it – mainly because its become about filling out lots of paperwork for HR.
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.
MishTalk
MAY 4, 2025
I am sure many would say yes, but there’s a catch.
Seth Godin Blog
MAY 3, 2025
One way to deal with a changing world and new problems is to take yourself very seriously, others not so much. The other way is to take the situation quite seriously, but perhaps not focus so much on taking ourselves seriously. As Ani DiFranco points out, rock musicians take themselves very seriously but don’t care so much about the rest of the world.
Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System
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Harvard Business
MAY 8, 2025
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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.
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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