The Source
MAY 14, 2020
It’s difficult to imagine a world with Coca-Cola but no Pepsi. Or with Roger Federer but no Rafa Nadal. Would Mercedes make the cars it does if there was no such thing as a BMW? Would Barça fans care as much about their team if Real Madrid didn’t exist? In life and in business, we often define ourselves by our competitors—and consulting is no different.
CaseInterview.com
MAY 13, 2020
In times of crisis, people look for leadership. A leader is someone with a plan, the competence to deliver on that plan, and the trustworthiness to earn the benefit of the doubt from others when things get tough. Calm is the sign of strong leadership. When a patient collapses from a heart attack, that patient and his/her family are having a crisis. Emergency medical technicians have a name for such an event.
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Management and IT Consulting
MAY 14, 2020
To better understand what U.S. hospitals and health systems look for in successful relationships with third-party consulting firms, Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) conducted a survey that found cost overruns, delays and scope creep (all indications of project failure) continue to plague the project work of consultants they hire.
Henry DeVries
MAY 13, 2020
Purpose, even during tough times, is a key branding strategy.
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Strategic Planning and Management Insights
MAY 14, 2020
“The biggest enemy of thinking is complexity” - Edward de Bono. Perhaps nothing else sets the human race apart from other species and primates like our natural ability to think. Considering different abilities such as locomotion, the homo sapien isn’t the most efficient.
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Tom Spencer
MAY 17, 2020
During COVID-19, working from home has become the new norm. This is a new experience for many of us, and poses new challenges and distractions that can make it difficult to stay focused and productive. I’ve been getting asked a lot lately about productivity, and so I thought I should dedicate an article to it. In this post I will share my top 10 hacks for maintaining hyper-productivity every day. 1.
Strategic Planning and Management Insights
MAY 27, 2020
The Problem. Many organizations have worked hard to develop their strategic plan, and yet a year or two down the line, they notice that they've not made enough progress towards their goals, or that their teams and departments have diverged down different paths, on projects or activities that don't align with their strategic objectives.
The Fearless Marketer
MAY 4, 2020
In last week’s Webinar on Going Radically Virtual, I did a poll to measure what the participants were doing in their marketing during the pandemic. The results were telling: 1. Are you reaching out each week and getting meetings with past clients and business associates? Yes – 62%. No – 38%. 2. Are you sending out email newsletters or other information by email to those on your list?
Markovitz Consulting
MAY 26, 2020
“The problem is, I don’t have a sales manager I can trust.” Those were the words of the CEO of a rapidly growing logistics company in explaining why she wasn’t spending more time on the large, critical, strategic issues that desperately needed her attention. Too bad that she didn’t read my new book, The Conclusion Trap. Then she’d realize that she really didn’t understand her problem at all.
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Simon Associates
MAY 26, 2020
As we have been working with our clients during this pandemic, we're noticing a recurring theme. They are unhappy about not knowing what comes next. They've figured out how to deal with living at home, working at home and being at home. But now they're beginning to be uncomfortable and anxious about what's coming next. It's strange, isn't it, that without a clear vision of the future, it's often impossible to live today.
Tom Spencer
MAY 16, 2020
Consulting is a career where you hit the ground running. Having a clear direction and strategy for your career early on can grant you amazing advantages, but so can keeping your options open and exploring the opportunities offered by consulting. This article identifies what lies ahead for graduates considering a future in consulting, and highlights key insights that I gained by interviewing junior and senior consultants. 1.
David A Fields
MAY 26, 2020
You could answer a debate my team and I have engaged in: the best way to create a quantum leap in a small consulting firm’s performance. Plenty of folks are chattering about how your consulting firm can survive or stabilize in the face of an economic downturn. I’d like to invite you to consider a … Continued. The post 9 Quantum Leap Questions for Your Consulting Firm appeared first on David A.
Consulting Success
MAY 11, 2020
The idea of working with the government can sometimes be daunting. While that is the case, it is nevertheless not impossible. In this episode, Michael Zipursky interviews Abhijit Verekar, President and CEO of Avèro Advisors—an end-to-end information technology advisory firm that works with local governments all around the US to implement new IT infrastructures and systems.
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Clarity Consultants
MAY 28, 2020
Once the coronavirus outbreak calms, millions of Americans will head back to their workplaces. Even if the buildings are the same ones that they left when the stay-at-home orders went into effect, that doesn’t mean the experience won’t change in the end. Coming back to work after COVID-19 will require agility. Additionally, a fundamental mindset change could also be necessary, Read More.
Harvard Business
MAY 27, 2020
A framework for government and corporate leaders in the U.S.
CaseInterview.com
MAY 15, 2020
When times get difficult, it’s natural to want to step back, play defense, and wait for conditions to get better. This is especially the case when difficult conditions are caused by extreme changes, such as COVID-19. While this is certainly one option of a way to run a business, there is another. It’s the option to be…. Aggressive. There’s both a dumb way and a smart way to be aggressive.
Tom Spencer
MAY 2, 2020
Consulting is a complicated job that requires a deep understanding of the problem at hand, processing large volumes of data, producing a solution and communicating clear action-oriented recommendations to the people in charge. When you have to work from a distance, conducting these steps can be an issue. Due to the latest situation created by COVID-19, distance and the use of online tools have become the new standard in consulting and many other jobs.
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David A Fields
MAY 20, 2020
Your consulting firm has probably encountered more resistance from prospective clients than usual over the past eight weeks. Fortunately, you can understand and overcome the elevated stumbling blocks. The basics of winning consulting projects haven’t changed. Keep them moist and use lots of butter. No, wait. That’s for sheets of phyllo dough. To win consulting … Continued.
Consulting Success
MAY 4, 2020
Among the many types of consulting jobs out there, freelance jobs are among the most coveted because they offer you a certain measure of freedom and independence in the way you go about things. However, these spots, coveted as they are, can also be difficult to come by because many enterprises prefer to keep consultants. How To Find & Win Freelance Consulting Jobs With Justin Nassiri: Podcast #137 is a post from: Consulting Success.
Clarity Consultants
MAY 20, 2020
Many companies rely heavily on instructor-led training (ILT). Typically, the courses are conducted in-person, allowing groups to move forward together and benefit not just from the instructor’s expertise, but the knowledge of everyone taking part. However, traditional corporate ILT isn’t ideal in all scenarios. As the coronavirus outbreak forced businesses all across the country to shutter their doors and embrace.
Harvard Business
MAY 27, 2020
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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.
Markovitz Consulting
MAY 12, 2020
This winter, I surveyed nearly 100 CEOs from a wide variety of companies—large and small, multiple industries—about their feelings of overwhelm due to the staggering demands on their time. I wanted to see if there was anything to learn from how they dealt with their managerial burdens. I found that there were, in fact, lessons to be learned. CEOs that embraced lean principles felt significantly less overwhelm than “typical” CEOs despite the fact that they had less support staff.
Strategic Planning and Management Insights
MAY 26, 2020
Keith Ferrazzi is a two-time New York Times best selling author, Harvard Business School graduate, and the former youngest CMO of a Fortune 500 company at Starlight Hotels. Keith's company, Ferrazzi Greenlight, works with executive leadership teams within some of the largest companies in the country including Verizon, Delta Airlines and General Motors.
David A Fields
MAY 5, 2020
What world greeted you this morning? Birds chirping? Blossoms fluttering? Here in New England the sun’s been shining. Not just shining; it’s ushered in a breathtaking, clients?-what-clients?-go-for-a-walk kind of day. Hold on. What’s up with all the sun-drenched cheeriness and good will? Doesn’t the universe know that millions of people are suffering, and practically the … Continued.
Consulting Success
MAY 18, 2020
What are the most common mistakes business owners are doing when selecting new employees? How do you match new hires to the right jobs? In this episode, Michael Zipursky has “The Turnover Terminator,” Art Snarzyk III, on the show. Art is the President of InnerView Advisors, Inc. and is also an employee and management specialist. With his.
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Clarity Consultants
MAY 13, 2020
When you invest in your learning and development (L&D) program, you want to gain positive results. However, not all training pans out. Sometimes, it just doesn’t work. Figuring out whether your training is ineffective isn’t always easy. However, there are some red flags that could signal a problem. If you want to determine whether your program is working, here’s what.
Harvard Business
MAY 27, 2020
Everyone’s fatigued these days.
The Source
MAY 19, 2020
When our son was born, I had an emergency caesarean. Standing at the side of the room while a dozen or so doctors and nurses swarmed in and began operating, my husband said something to the effect of: “So this is what an emergency looks like”. “No”, was the answer. “This is a medium-level emergency. If it was a high-level of emergency, we’d have had the baby out by now.
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