Consultant Ninja

OCTOBER 10, 2013

'"Give a man a fish, and he''ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he''ll eat fish for life. Teach a man to sell, and he''ll eat steak.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 8, 2013

'A framework to help executives, senior managers and marketers devise strategies for future growth. 1. Background. THE Ansoff Matrix (referred to by some commentators as the Product/Market Expansion Grid) was developed by a Russian-American mathematician named Igor Ansoff , and first explained in his 1957 Harvard Business Review article entitled Strategies for Diversification. 2.

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Women in Consulting

OCTOBER 1, 2013

'By: Sandy Jones-Kaminski Networking occurs at practically every event we attend, whether it’s on the schedule or not. As the featured speaker at the October WIC General Meeting, I thought I’d share some of my tips to help with your pre-meeting preparation. These tips are most helpful if you’re attending an in-person networking event solo. Two proven tactics that I’ve seen help solo attendees again and again: 1.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

OCTOBER 21, 2013

'The airline business is like nothing on earth, and airline people are some of the most common interactions we consultants have. I thought I would take a minute to note some of the crazy words that come out of their mouths. Note that I''m not talking about jargon - every field has special weird words for weird things. I''m talking about weird words for common things that didn''t need renaming.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 28, 2013

'There is little to no incentive in the healthcare industry to hold down costs. Worse yet, the rewards for performing unnecessary surgeries is huge, while the risks of doing them are essentially nonexistent. Here are a couple of articles that show what I mean. Prostate Cancer Radiation Therapy Rises as Doctors Profit. Bloomberg reports Prostate Cancer Radiation Therapy Rises as Doctors Profit.

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Strategy+Business

OCTOBER 31, 2013

'These four excelled at making meaningful connections in a world where that matters more than ever.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 11, 2013

'“It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one meaningless life of yours” (Tim Minchin). “TIM Minchin is a genius, pure and simple. He is to musical comedy what Charles Darwin was to evolution” (Tim Arthur, CEO of TimeOut Magazine). We tend to agree. For those of you unfamiliar with Tim’s work, you can check out some of his amusingly irreverent musical comedy here.

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Women in Consulting

OCTOBER 31, 2013

'By: Melissa Stacey On behalf of Women in Consulting, thank you for your generous donations to the silent auction! Your participation and collaboration helped make the 2013 silent auction a huge success. Women in Consulting is grateful for your support. Colleen Bataille, Inspired Events by CB: www.inspiredeventsbycb.com. Pamela Bender, Planning Showcase: www.planshow.com.

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1 to 1

OCTOBER 10, 2013

'Service design is critical to customer experience (CX). (If you''re not sure why, please check out my post from earlier this week called Service Design: The Most Important Design Discipline You''ve Never Heard Of, and then come back and continue reading.) But what exactly is the relationship between the service design and CX? And how does the field of user experience (UX) factor into this picture?

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Finance

MishTalk

OCTOBER 8, 2013

'A few days ago, a reader sent me a chart of the price of gold vs. the national debt. The chart was a bit out of date so I asked Nick at Sharelynx Gold (my favorite proprietor of historical and current gold charts) if he had a similar chart. He did. And here''s the chart. Debt and Debt Ceiling vs. Gold. click on chart for sharper image. Please note that the current debt limit is $16.699 trillion.

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2013

'If you announce what you want, if you are clear about what''s on offer, if you set goals. the chances of accomplishing your goal go up, and so does. the chance that you will be disappointed. For many people, apparently, it''s better to not get what you want than it is to be disappointed. The resistance is powerful indeed. Every time you use waffle words, back off from a clear statement of values and priorities and most of all, think about what''s likely instead of what''s possible, you are sell

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Strategy+Business

OCTOBER 31, 2013

'Keith Ferrazzi, author of Who''s Got Your Back: The Breakthrough Program to Build Deep, Trusting Relationships That Create Success--and Won''t Let You Fail , introduces a passage on the value of connecting with co-workers from The Necessity of Strangers: The Intriguing Truth about Insight, Innovation, and Success , by Alan Gregerman.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 19, 2013

'Loss aversion is a widespread behavioural trait which causes people to experience the suffering from a loss much more deeply than the joy from a commensurate gain. Background. Everyone knows that people don’t like to lose things. People are reluctant to give their old clothes to Vinnies, to leave dysfunctional relationships, or to throw away an old pair of slippers.

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Women in Consulting

OCTOBER 8, 2013

'By: Renee Daggett The number of people working from home has increased, yet claiming the home office deduction has been a burden and filled with many rules in order to qualify. However, for 2013, the IRS has implemented new home office rules to make it SIMPLE! Taxpayers can choose between the regular method and the new simplified method. For the regular method, you must use a portion of your home regularly and exclusively as a principal place of business, as a place to meet with clients or in

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1 to 1

OCTOBER 7, 2013

'Today marks the start of Customer Service Week where thousands of companies will honor and award their employees in an effort to boost morale and celebrate those committed to delivering exceptional customer service. In an effort to encourage continuous improvement for companies'' service organizations beyond October 11, I''m making the following recommendations.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 24, 2013

'Security founder John McAfee of McAfee Associates, a computer anti-virus company, reflects on Obamacare: " This Is A Hacker''s Wet Dream ". NEIL CAVUTO: What do you make [of Obamacare]? Obviously, a lot of people have been focusing on the law but not really cognizant of the privacy part of the law, and how hackers could have a field day with it. Is it that bad?

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2013

'is to assume that they are uninformed, and that once they know what you know, they will change their mind. (A marketing problem!). The second easiest way to disagree is to assume that the other person is a dolt, a loon, a misguided zealot who refuses to see the truth. Their selfish desire to win interferes with their understanding of reality. (A political problem!).

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Strategy+Business

OCTOBER 28, 2013

'Sheryl Sandberg is wrong: Women who want to "have it all" should consider smaller companies that better fit their lifestyle.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 26, 2013

'By addressing social issues with sustainable business models, business leaders have the potential to provide scalable solutions MICHAEL PORTER makes an astute observation – the world is full of social problems. From environmental degradation and disease to unemployment and inequality, solving social problems has traditionally been the domain of NGOs, the government and philanthropists.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

OCTOBER 16, 2013

'Ever notice the eerie similarity of consulting deliverables to Mad Libs ? It seems that as a firm gets more "mature" ( in the procedure sense ) all of its output becomes a massive game of "fill in the blanks." Just like Mad Libs. Need a deliverable for a small backwoods paper company? Fill in the blanks. How about a Wall Street financial? Same deliverable; just fill it in.

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1 to 1

OCTOBER 28, 2013

'It''s no secret that mobile is changing the traditional marketing funnel and transforming the way customers interact at every stage throughout the customer journey. Mobile has propelled us into an environment that not only allows us to express a need through any device at any time, and also one that has customers expecting a contextually relevant response to those needs.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 30, 2013

'In spite of a 12.8% annual return, with an 8% return assumption, the Illinois Teachers Retirement System (TRS) fell another $3.5 billion in the hole. TRS pension underfunding grew to $55.73 billion as of June 30, 2013. Via email, the Illinois Policy Institute explains the growing liability. First, TRS only has $0.40 in the bank for every dollar it should have today to make necessary pension payouts in the future.

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2013

'I have no idea what caused the guy in front of me in traffic to be having a bad day. Maybe he has a stressful meeting coming up, or his butler burned his bacon at breakfast. Maybe he''s having trouble paying his rent, or his industry is under seige. All I know is that he''s weaving in and out, giving people the finger and yelling at other cars, all at the same time.

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Strategy+Business

OCTOBER 21, 2013

'Let''s not be so quick to damn an entire generation as narcissists. Maybe they''re just inexperienced.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 29, 2013

'Viewing stress as helpful can foster courage, and connecting with others under stress can aid resilience. KELLY McGONIGAL explains that merely believing that “stress is harmful” can increase your chances of premature death. The good news is that by changing how you think about stress you can change your body’s stress response and improve your physical resilience.

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Gina Abudi

OCTOBER 1, 2013

'The first team problem Read Part I, Part II and Part III of our story for background information. The team has been moving along well and, as Alice predicted, during the first team meeting, they really did seem to come together as a team. However, Alice began to notice an issue. Similar to what happened [.].

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1 to 1

OCTOBER 23, 2013

'For years, brands referred to the contact center as the "cost center" of their organization. With their focus geared toward short-term ROI, many were reluctant to spend money on improvements because they neglected to consider sales beyond the brick-and-mortar store or website. Such companies failed to take full advantage of their customer service agents, for they were not trained as sales agents, thus missing the opportunity to nurture relationships, encourage repeat purchases, and upsell durin

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 15, 2013

'The nannycrats in Brussels and the IMF keep pressuring Spain to hike the VAT and Spain does every time. The results are easily predictable. Via translate from El Econimista , please consider VAT Rise is "Catastrophic". Anged, the "Association of Large Distribution Companies" suffered a 7.2% drop in sales through August, the biggest drop in sales since the crisis began.

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