Makarios Consulting
AUGUST 3, 2022
Recession. We don’t like the word and we don’t want the reality, but it may be in our collective future. As a leader, you need to anticipate that business may slow down in coming months due to inflation and recession. If you are a younger leader, you may never have experienced a recession. If you are an older leader, it’s been a while since you faced one.
Successful Independent Consulting
AUGUST 4, 2022
Being self-employed is hard, so go in with your eyes open. Being a self-employed solopreneur isn’t for everyone. Sure, it sounds fabulous—the ability to be selective about the work you do, have a flexible schedule, escape office politics, make good money—but there are drawbacks. I made the leap to independent consulting in 2004 and never looked back.
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Consulting Success
AUGUST 1, 2022
Staying competitive in a globalized ecosystem of enterprises requires assistance from outsourced, external experts to help your business scale. In this episode, Bianca Robinson, the CEO of Cayden Cay Consulting, talks about her career shift from being a project manager for an engineering firm to diving into consulting service. She also discusses how and why.
Epicflow
AUGUST 3, 2022
As companies develop and grow, and the number of projects they deliver increases, business leaders are seeking ways to ensure more efficient coordination of all their initiatives. For this purpose, a great number of organizations started to set up a project management office (PMO) – according to the 2021 report on the state of project management [1], 82% of organizations reported to have one. .
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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.
Harvard Business
AUGUST 1, 2022
Counterintuitively, ESG ratings reward companies that are likely to profit in the climate crisis — not those who are doing the most to fight it.
Management Consulting Connection brings together the best content for management consulting professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Consulting Matters
AUGUST 4, 2022
Want a common sense, down-to-earth approach for developing leaders, growing organizations, and creating a profitable consulting or coaching business? Today I'm talking with Lee Cockerell, the former Executive Vice President of Operations for Walt Disney resort and currently a consultant, author, and speaker. He's a great leader, and I promised through this "favorite executive series" that I would use my show to offer insight into the hearts and minds of great leaders so that you can be more effe
CaseInterview.com
JULY 30, 2022
The simplest way to make any career decision is to choose the career option that gives you the greatest progress toward your career and/or life goal. This should be your primary decision-making criterion. If there are multiple paths that provide equal progress toward your goal, then your secondary criterion should be some combination of (not listed in any particular order): Highest income Lowest risk Highest wealth-creation opportunity (e.g., stock options) Most fun/exciting/satisfying However,
Harvard Business
AUGUST 3, 2022
Three approaches to help you ace this classic interview question.
Simon Associates
AUGUST 4, 2022
Want to help change the world for working women? Please be our guest at our 4th Annual Women Business Collaborative (WBC) Action for Impact Summit taking place virtually on September 21 and 22. Join WBC members and hundreds of business people like yourself for a day and a half of high-level panels and speakers discussing how best to create equal position, pay and power for all women.
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.
Tom Spencer
AUGUST 5, 2022
Product managers have a dynamic role within companies, sitting at the intersection between business leaders, customers, engineers, and designers. They help to organize the development process so that products meet customer needs and business goals. In this article, I will examine the nature of products and the product life cycle , and break down a bit of what product managers do and how to break into this line of work.
CaseInterview.com
AUGUST 1, 2022
When communicating complex ideas, simplify your message to enhance your audience’s conceptual understanding (even if what you say is less technically precise). When learning something new, start by learning the core concept and then expand to grasp the nuances of what you’re studying. Your ability to communicate complex ideas depends on your ability to learn new things… while still remembering what it was like to be completely new to the topic at hand.
Harvard Business
AUGUST 4, 2022
Four strategies for leaders.
Brimstone Consulting
AUGUST 1, 2022
Leaders need to prioritize engaging and energizing their organization. If it feels like your organization is unengaged, you are not alone. For the first time in more than a decade, the percent of engaged workers has declined. In 2021, the percentage of engaged employees declined by 5.5% to 34%, while the percentage of actively disengaged employees increased by 14.2% to 16%.
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Johanna Rothman
AUGUST 2, 2022
A project portfolio manager contacted me via LinkedIn. The question: How can this portfolio team start to manage the project portfolio when the organization has 600 projects? Right now, the portfolio team is supposed to read the status decks for each of those 600, to understand each project's status. How to start? That's an impossible task. A project portfolio team cannot decide when they're supposed to evaluate 600 projects.
On the Brink Podcast
AUGUST 1, 2022
Hear how to be bolder and braver at balancing your life. Suppose you are a working woman with children. I bet you have experienced the "Balance Dilemma." How can you find the right balance between home life, family, a business or professional career, and even your own self-care? You, your partner or spouse, your friends and your family will enjoy this podcast.
Harvard Business
AUGUST 4, 2022
The labor market for jobs you can do on a laptop is expanding beyond major cities.
Simon Associates
AUGUST 4, 2022
I so enjoy my A uthority magazine interviews. Not only do I get to really think about how to grow a business, change your culture , be an effective leader or become successful as a woman entrepreneur, I get to share my thoughts with all kinds of business people, either established or emerging. I love it! The most recent installment was part of the magazine's interview series, “ 5 Things You Need To Know To Successfully Scale Your Business. ” You can read the entire interview here.
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Leadership Vision Consulting
JULY 31, 2022
Do Strengths change over time? Today on the podcast, we begin to answer this question and provide some additional insights that may help you answer this question for yourself. The post Do Strengths Change Over Time? appeared first on Leadership Vision.
Asamby Consulting
AUGUST 4, 2022
Pro Meetings I read - one of a million - posts yesterday that bashed meeting time as unproductive and busy work. That's BS. The reality as usually is more differentiated than this: The time that is spent well in meetings is a function total span of control and interdependence between your responsibility. Let's break this down. Total span of control If you manage 8 direct reports and a total of 200 employees, meetings are in fact the best spend of your time.
Harvard Business
AUGUST 3, 2022
A hard copy makes a decision feel more real.
Makarios Consulting
AUGUST 3, 2022
Recession. We don’t like the word and we don’t want the reality, but it may be in our collective future. As a leader, you need to anticipate that business may slow down in coming months due to inflation and recession. If you are a younger leader, you may never have experienced a recession. If you are an older leader, it’s been a while since you faced one.
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Chad Barr
AUGUST 3, 2022
On this date, August 3, 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail on his first transatlantic voyage, departing from Palos, Spain, with three small ships-the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria. Although Columbus remains a famous historical figure around the world, his real name is somewhat of a mystery. In Italian he is known as Cristoforo Colombo and in Spanish as Cristobal Colon.
Actionable
AUGUST 2, 2022
It might be true that some strategic priorities are advanced through training investment. But how would we know? The current methods of sustaining and measuring training program efficacy are largely broken. Over $358 billion was spent globally on corporate training last year, with an estimated $41 billion of that figure being spent on leadership training […] The post How Quickly We Forget: Ebbinghaus and Training Program Measurement appeared first on Actionable.co.
Harvard Business
AUGUST 1, 2022
The “good guy” defense gaslights women and enables offenders.
Organizational Talent Consulting
AUGUST 1, 2022
Is there anything more unsettling than making big decisions alone? Thankfully, it's been a while since I've tried. But in the past, I've made my share. I can tell you firsthand that having a coach has benefits beyond making better decisions. Leaders are constantly navigating competing priorities. Team members, customers, and of course, family and friends all have needs.
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
Seth Godin Blog
AUGUST 5, 2022
So many choices. So many sorts of metrics, critics and measures. Perhaps it makes sense to count things where the counting tells us how to do better next time. And to count things that let us know how much risk we can take next time. Or to calibrate our judgment about the market. But it makes no sense at all to count things over which we have no control, and which teach us nothing about the future.
Actionable
AUGUST 2, 2022
It might be true that some strategic priorities are advanced through training investment. But how would we know? The current methods of sustaining and measuring training program efficacy are largely broken. Over $358 billion was spent globally on corporate training last year, with an estimated $41 billion of that figure being spent on leadership training […].
Harvard Business
AUGUST 4, 2022
With an aggressive but thoughtful approach, it’s possible to survive a downturn — and even emerge stronger.
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