David A Fields

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Small consulting firms offer numerous rationale in order to persuade clients to turn to them rather than one of the well-known consulting behemoths. In truth, most of those reasons don’t hold water. There are, however, (at least) five arguments that legitimately elevate your consulting firm above your outsized competition. Before you, your fellow readers and … Continued The post 5 Defenses Against Large Consulting Firms appeared first on David A.

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Chad Barr

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Imagine opening your inbox and seeing this message from a trusted advisor: “During our last conversation, you shared that your key challenge is how to grow your business and thrive rather than merely survive. I’ve attached an article that highlights 9 pragmatic ways to significantly accelerate growth. I think you’ll find it valuable.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Continuous learning is the key to having lasting influence in your career, yet a heavy workload makes it hard to find the time. To ensure you’re creating opportunities even when you’re feeling depleted or overwhelmed, try these five strategies: 1) Challenge your beliefs about your capacity; 2) Start with topics that solve urgent problems; 3) Don’t limit yourself to formal programs; 4) Make an emotional connection to learning; and 5) Work with your brain, not against it.

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Clarity Consultants

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The ability to adapt and grow is more imperative than ever. Organizations that prioritize learning and development (L&D) are not just investing in their staff; they are investing in their future. At the core of any successful organization lies a commitment to continuous improvement. Robust organizational learning strategies often drive this commitment.

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Speaker: Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader

In today’s competitive market, pricing is more than just a number — it’s the cornerstone of profitability. The right pricing strategy ensures that you capture the true value of your offering, paving the way for sustainable growth and long-term success. Join Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader, in this exclusive session where he will explore how a well-crafted pricing approach balances customer perception with business objectives, creating a powerful tool for securing both competitive advantage a

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

If you want more shortages then artificially stimulate demand. That’s exactly what Harris proposes.

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Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

If you didn’t own your company, but you were looking for a company to buy, would you buy your company? Let’s be more specific, if you were looking to buy a turnkey business that you could ‘simply’ step into, tweak a bit, scale further, and reap strong financial rewards, would you buy your company? Your […] The post Would You Buy Your Company? appeared first on Weber Business Services, LLC.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

We all have scores of decisions to make every day, and we often want to move quickly, telling ourselves that speed equals efficiency. But true efficiency sometimes requires slowing down, being mindful, and especially looking back at the decisions we’ve made that didn’t go as we’d hoped. Too often we don’t want to spend time and mental energy revisiting the past, especially if it contains uncomfortable missteps.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

In a recent episode of the Strategy and Leadership podcast , Anthony Taylor sat down with Toby Southgate , the global CEO of Forsman & Bodenfors , to discuss the intricacies of leading a global creative agency. With a background that includes a stint as Chief Growth Officer at McCann World Group, Toby brought a wealth of experience to the conversation.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Nearly half of all renter households are distressed. I am not surprised.

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Halo Psych

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

10 minute read Innovation is essential for organisations wanting to remain relevant and competitive in a highly competitive, increasingly demanding world. As the management expert, Peter Drucker, is once alleged to have said, “Innovate or die!” Get the workplace environment right and great things can happen. A truly innovative organisational environment encourages more creative behaviour, knowledge-sharing, proactive risk-taking, faster decision making, and better customer satisfaction.

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Alan Weiss

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

My prediction is that companies are going to focus on shortening, localizing, securing, and simplifying their supply chains, having seen the ability to sabotage pagers and other devices shipped to Lebanon from Taiwan. The US is blocking cranes made in China due to software that is believed to be capable of espionage.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Closing a sale is the result of earlier actions such as customer discovery, lead qualification, and performance management. Framework IT improved its sales process by better qualifying prospects, understanding key stakeholders, and promoting its differentiators, leading to increased deal sizes and customer satisfaction. In this way, proactive customer selection and lead qualification are crucial for driving profitable growth and maintaining a competitive edge.

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Girard Training Solutions

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

On this episode of Management Development Unocked, Eric welcomes Brian Nelson-Palmer back to the show for a friendly debate. Brian is the founder of Productivity Gladiator and teaches personal, practical productivity skills. Brian’s target audience is recently promoted office people managers. Brian and Eric have different productivity styles, and this episode is all about their dueling opinions on various ways of remaining productive, including calendars, task lists, what time work should start,

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Jack Farley interviews Danielle DiMartino Booth in their best interview yet. Booth blasts the Fed’s unemployment projections.

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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

It might only cost $2 in the vending machine, but that can of soda is a complicated battery. It stores the energy of the machines that were used to mine the bauxite, the ship that brought the ore to Iceland, the astonishing temperatures used to create the aluminum, then more shipping, more processing, more handling, the lights in the store and the power to the vending machine.

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Alan Weiss

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

If you have trust and lose it, it’s extremely hard to recover it. Similarly, if you have rules but don’t enforce them equally, rules are undermined. When the restaurant with a dress code allows exceptions for a special customer or employees are simply afraid to enforce it, everyone starts to dress down. When the theater allows someone to cut a line, everyone rushes for the doors.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

When researchers at the University of Cambridge pitted human competitors against a leading LLM, the chatbot beat the top participants on almost every metric. It also was fired more quickly.

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Leadership Vision Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

In this episode of the Leadership Vision podcast, we sit down with Dennis Stevens, an enterprise Agile coach and founder of OrgWright with 30 years of experience. We discuss the evolving relevance of Agile principles and practices, particularly in the context of the post-pandemic business world. The conversation explores the difference between superficial Agile practices and fostering true team coherence and adaptability.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

New home sales fell 4.7 percent in August but the supply of homes started homes and finished homes is the big story.

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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

There is always room for someone who really knows their way around an industry, a technology or a problem. That’s what agents, agencies and organizers do. The hard part isn’t in finding people who will value true on-the-ground expertise. The hard part is actually earning it and maintaining it. As long as there are folks who are lost, we will need guides.

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Peter Stark

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

If your company is like most of the ones we have worked with this year, staffing and retention are at the top of the minds of most HR departments and leadership teams. While the employee market is starting to slow for most, some companies are still dealing with staffing shortages. Of the employee engagement surveys we conducted this year, the lack of staffing and the inability to retain top performers have been among the lowest-rated questions for many of our clients’ surveys.

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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.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

ESG is at an inflection point. It has come to represent a broad and inchoate aspiration for what business should be doing beyond maximizing shareholder value. With ESG advocates on the defensive, business leaders need a new roadmap to determine which factors to incorporate into their business strategies and operations – and their political advocacy – and how they will communicate this to their stakeholders.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

A study of 200 MBA students found 40% use these tools every day. Here’s what they’re doing — and how companies can make use of their experience.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

New research shows how foreign-owned factories tend to be more productive, higher paying, and more technologically advanced. Here’s how U.S. companies benefit.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

All impact investors report the financial returns from their funds and investments, and many provide metrics on intended social outcomes, such as numbers of individuals served, or quality jobs created. But investors do not supply metrics about their impacts on individuals’ and families’ lives, and until they do, social impact reporting is unlikely to approach the level of robustness associated with financial and environmental reporting.

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