August, 2012

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Rescue from the trash…avoiding key resume errors that get your consulting application tossed aside

Management Consulted

'Paper airplanes are fun, but you don’t want your resume to become the vehicle for a recruiter’s mid-afternoon horseplay because you’ve bored them to death. That’s why we’re giving you some guidelines on key resume errors to avoid and things you can do to make it past the first round of reviews. This post comes at an especially relevant time for you rising seniors and 2nd year MBAs (we did that on purpose).

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Communication Strategy Tips | Women in Consulting

Women in Consulting

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The Far Reach of Supportive Senior Managers - Strategy+Business

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See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me

Chad Barr

I could hear the excitement in her voice when Debbie, one of my clients, called yesterday and said: “You are not going to believe this Chad! Your provocative questions and your coaching helped me deliver a fantastic speech that immediately led buyers to contact me, not to mention the remarkable new content available now on my site. Thank You!”. “This is exactly the kind of call I love to receive.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

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.

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Matrix Structures and Virtual Collaboration (Kates and Erickson, Handbook of High Performance Virtual Teams, 2008)

Kates Kesler

'Virtual Collaboration in a Matrix Organization. Amy Kates and Paul J. Erickson. Chapter in The Handbook of High Performance Virtual Teams, 2008. The matrix structure is an increasingly common feature on the business landscape. As firms grow more complex and more geographically dispersed, leaders are confronted with the question of how to effectively integrate and align staff that work in remote locations and need to be deployed on several projects simultaneously.

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Reader FAQ: The one-page resume rule, applying overseas, and why our phone number is unlisted

Management Consulted

'Today, we cover some fun (and serious) topics that we’ve received via email from readers and clients in the last few weeks. We knew that you might all benefit from answers to these questions. Q: I want to call you to talk about your services, but I can’t find your phone number anywhere. What is your number? A: While we’d love to publish our phone number, it’s kept private for a reason – well, actually a few reasons.

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LinkedIn Strategy: 5 Easy Steps | Women in Consulting

Women in Consulting

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Drucker's Rule - Strategy+Business

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Identify Your Business Growth Potential

Chad Barr

Have you identified your highest business potential? Take a look at the next visual: Primary Growth Potential: This exists when your new offerings, which manifest themselves through innovation of new products and services are effectively marketed to your existing customers. Since you have already established trusting relationships with your existing customers.

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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.

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Designing Strategic Organizations: The New Work of Executives and HR (Kesler and Kates, People & Strategy, 2010)

Kates Kesler

'Greg Kesler and Amy Kates. People & Strategy, 2010. We long have been fascinated by the overlap between leadership and organization development. One of the most difficult challenges for new general managers, who have been promoted after leading functional teams in marketing, sales or operations, is to make their leadership impact scalable across and multi-dimensional organization.

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Unhappiness Lessons from Judy - Henman Performance

Henman Performance Executive

'Home. About Linda. Client List. Newsletter. Executive blog Contact Us. Unhappiness Lessons from Judy. by Linda Henman on August 31, 2012. In my decades of coaching and consulting, I’ve met several people like Judy—people who simply aren’t happy unless they’re unhappy. Judy, an admired professional who consistently produces high-caliber results, could turn the Good Humor Man into Oscar the Grouch in the span of one meeting.

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Rocking an IBM interview from a non-target school: Ashley’s story

Management Consulted

Ashley worked with us in the Fall of 2011 to break into consulting from a non-target school. We started with a resume/cover letter edit, and later completed interview preparation. Ashley had a strong background – she had completed a number… Read Article. The post Rocking an IBM interview from a non-target school: Ashley’s story appeared first on Management Consulted.

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Is DIY Your Biggest Competitor? Here's How To Compete, and Win.

Women in Consulting

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PowerPoint Best Practices for Creating Stellar Presentations

Mastering data visualization in PowerPoint will help accelerate your career because it positions you as someone who can present data that drives business decisions forward. think-cell's PowerPoint Best Practices eBook was created specifically for professionals aiming to master the art and science of data-driven storytelling. What’s inside: Practical Insights: Uncover valuable tips for crafting engaging and persuasive presentations.

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When Exclusivity Is Crucial for Celebrity Endorsements

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How to Create Great Content for Your Website

Chad Barr

Excerpt from my book “ Million Dollar Web Presence ” as just published on Entrepreneur.com. Get Million Dollar Web Presence on Amazon. © Chad Barr 2012. All rights reserved. The post How to Create Great Content for Your Website appeared first on The Chad Barr Group.

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Using a Re-Organization to Test and Grow High-Potential Leaders (Kesler and Kates, Leadership Development, 2009)

Kates Kesler

'By Greg Kesler and Amy Kates. in 2009 Pfeiffer Annual: Leadership Development. Edited by David Dotlich. Leadership development is predominantly a matter of giving the right people the right experiences at the right time. Doing this well is difficult, which is why companies that have effective leadership development practices benefit from a competitive advantage.

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We Have the Right to Remain Silent, but Apparently, Not the Ability

Henman Performance Executive

'Home. About Linda. Client List. Newsletter. Executive blog Contact Us. We Have the Right to Remain Silent, but Apparently, Not the Ability. by Linda Henman on August 3, 2012. This week you’d think the Olympics would dominate the media but not, it appears, when people voicing opinions can take the lead. The poultry fast-food giant CEO, Don Cathy, recently expressed his views on gay marriage.

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Savings Consultants Are Needed in Today's Market More Than Ever

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.

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Rocking an IBM interview from a non-target school: Ashley’s story

Management Consulted

Ashley worked with us in the Fall of 2011 to break into consulting from a non-target school. We started with a resume/cover letter edit, and later completed interview preparation. Ashley had a strong background – she had completed a number… Read Article. The post Rocking an IBM interview from a non-target school: Ashley’s story appeared first on Management Consulted.

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Need a laugh? Recall now-funny mistakes you recovered well from.

Women in Consulting

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Lead from Where you Are

Leadership Vision Consulting

'When we look only for opportunities to lead, we often miss the more frequent and more common opportunities for meaningful influence. Influence of others through the more common, relational and unsuspecting moments make the more lasting impact. But in doing so, we need to pay attention more, a lot more. I believe by focusing on(.).

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How to Promote Your Web Site

Chad Barr

I get asked this question a lot: “Chad, now that I’ve launched my site, how do I best promote it?” A while back I wrote You Just Launched Your New Site, Now What? where I reviewed some key elements to promoting your site. Today, I am going to dive much deeper and give you the recipe or menu options to choose from. So although a longer article, this is a good one, so here you go: Create Your Contact List – Collect and assemble all possible contacts you have, such as: curre

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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.

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(Re)Designing the HR Organization (Kates, Human Resource Planning, 2006)

Kates Kesler

'Amy Kates. Human Resource Planning, 2006. Many HR functions have gone through the process of transformation over the past decade. This redefinition of the work of HR is intended to allow a more strategic focus on talent management and organizational capability while systematizing and controlling the cost of transactional work. Little formal consideration has been given, however, to how these new complex HR organizations should be configured to best achieve these goals.

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Social Media Content Strategies: An Interview With Robin Frank.

Women in Consulting

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Building Customer Relationships | Women in Consulting

Women in Consulting

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What’s Your Internet Strategic Profile?

Chad Barr

Take a look at this process visual and then please follow my instruction below: The columns at the top indicate competitive (only as good as most of the competition), distinct (contains distinguishing features), and breakthrough (leading edge and state-of-the-art). Now take a look at the marketing gravity categories I have included on the left hand side.

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Why You Need to Use Case Studies in Sales and Marketing (and How to Start Now)

Case studies are proof of successful client relations and a verifiable product or service. They persuade buyers by highlighting your customers' experiences with your company and its solution. In sales, case studies are crucial pieces of content that can be tailored to prospects' pain points and used throughout the buyer's journey. In marketing, case studies are versatile assets for generating business, providing reusable elements for ad and social media content, website material, and marketing c

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Marketing Allure and Attraction

Chad Barr

There is a profound difference between beating on prospects’ doors, trying to convince them of how good you are, and prospects coming to you, saying they’ve heard of your value and are curious as to how they can work with you. In the latter case, there is zero cost of acquisition and fees are seldom an issue at all. The secret to building a strong community of quality supporters on the web is to engage in as much of the market gravity as you can.

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Testimonial from Lisa McLeod

Chad Barr

As part of my Digital Empire Creation program, we have just finished an amazing videos shoot in our studio with Lisa Earle McLeod. Stay tuned for these remarkable videos which will be featured shortly on Lisa’s site as well as the new site and strategy we are working on for Lisa. Here is what Lisa had to say about us: “Chad is one of my favorite people but he is also one of the most effective people I’ve ever worked with in helping you build your business.

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Advice I Would Have Given Myself 15 Years Ago

Chad Barr

In this interview, Chad discusses the advice he would have given himself 15 years ago. The post Advice I Would Have Given Myself 15 Years Ago appeared first on The Chad Barr Group.