David A Fields
OCTOBER 23, 2018
Music superstar Ed Sheeran is going to make you money. Well, indirectly. Okay, he’s not actually going to make you money, but there’s a connection between Red Ed and your consulting firm’s fortunes. Channel your inner Ed Sheeran: hum catchy tunes, look soulful, and grow something scruffy.
Consulting Success
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Life presents itself for most of us if we’re open to it. For Michael Brenner, going out on his own and become a consultant literally had people and mentors pushing him in that direction. Michael is the CEO of his own company called Marketing Insider Group where they do marketing consulting, leadership coaching, and keynote speaking for conferences and brands all over the world.
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Clarity Consultants
OCTOBER 24, 2018
With the rise of new technologies, the younger generations learn differently than older ones. Here are a few insights to consider. The post What’s Different About How Younger Workers Learn? appeared first on Clarity Consultants - Learning and Development.
Markovitz Consulting
OCTOBER 23, 2018
I’m back from joining Honsha on their semi-annual Executive Development Mission to Japan. It was a remarkable learning experience — although I’ve been on two other study trips to Japan, there’s always something new to see and understand when you visit a company that has adopted (and adapted) the Toyota Production System. The president of one company we visited said something that really resonated with me: “If you can’t save 1/10 of a second, you won’t be able to save 1 second.
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Harvard Business
OCTOBER 26, 2018
pchyburrs/Getty Images. “First, let’s fire all the managers” said Gary Hamel almost seven years ago in Harvard Business Review. “Think of the countless hours that team leaders, department heads, and vice presidents devote to supervising the work of others.” Today, we believe that the problem in most organizations isn’t simply that management is inefficient, it’s that the role and purpose of a “manager” haven’t kept pace with what’
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Management Consulted
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Our friends at Live Nation Entertainment (yes, the same Live Nation that merged with Ticketmaster in 2010) just shared a great 6-figure job opportunity with us, and we wanted to pass it along to you! This role lies at the … Continue Reading. The post Consulting exit opportunity: Senior Manager, Strategy & Analytics at Live Nation Entertainment appeared first on Management Consulted.
Henry DeVries
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Honestly, the new Nebraska tourism campaign is genius and a lesson to those who want to attract high-paying clients. Honesty is the best policy.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 25, 2018
Dimitri Otis/Getty Images. Pay inequality is common in most workplaces. You get paid significantly more than your subordinates, your boss gets paid more than you, and your boss’s boss gets even more. In many large organizations, some employees can take home paychecks tens or hundreds of times more than others. Whether you like it or not, your employees have wondered at some point about your salary — and their peers’ Should you be worried about that?
Johanna Rothman
OCTOBER 26, 2018
I’m catching up on my podcasts and just listened to Seth Godin’s Akimbo episode about honest signals. (Do listen.) It’s about the signals we send that are honest or dishonest and why we might choose one, the other, or both. I started to think about the management signals we send, especially in an agile transformation. In From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , Mark and I developed this chart to show how agile approaches change the culture.
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Management Consulted
OCTOBER 21, 2018
Is it just us, or does it seem like new travel apps are popping up like weeds these days? We all know those no-brainer apps that are actually useful – but a majority of the time when we experiment with … Continue Reading. The post Best 5 Apps For Consultant Travel appeared first on Management Consulted.
The Fearless Marketer
OCTOBER 22, 2018
These days, the political landscape is incredibly divisive. I spent some time browsing through Facebook this past weekend and was surprised to see that more than half the posts were political in nature. And many were downright nasty, ridiculing those in the opposing political party. The anger is palpable and the tone is one of righteous indignation: “We are right and they are wrong!”.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 25, 2018
Peter Dazeley/Getty Images. An old saying sums up the data skills of most HR professionals: “The shoemaker’s children go barefoot.” In today’s tightening labor market, HR leaders must work relentlessly to develop and recruit people who advance digital transformation across their organizations. Yet most have struggled to advance their own digital competencies.
Tom Spencer
OCTOBER 20, 2018
Last week we introduced how artificial intelligence is defined as well as how it is currently being used in the medical arena. This week, in the second installment of this two-part series, we will consider the potential future role of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare. Introduction. Recently, the American Medical Association (AMA), published a policy statement regarding its view of “augmented intelligence” (the term it uses in place of AI) 1.
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Consultants' Consultant
OCTOBER 23, 2018
Consultants Consultant: Promoting yourself is one of the hardest jobs in the planet (almost as hard as re-writing your CV). You want people to know who you are. You’ve heard the old proverb it’s not who you are, it’s who you know but even so you feel a little dirty when you self-promote. This morning as I was […]. The post Promoting yourself appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.
Strategy+Business
OCTOBER 21, 2018
If you are a business leader, you are probably thinking about radical change. A conventional transformation initiative won't get you close to your goals. Take control of your future with these four elements: (1) create a strategic identity; (2) design for trust; (3) master the pivot from startup to scale-up; (4) treat your legacy as an asset. Use these principles differently in different situations, but don't ignore them; they are the core elements in any successful major change effort.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 24, 2018
Thomas J Peterson/Getty Images. There’s an old story about a tourist who asks a New Yorker how to get to the storied concert venue Carnegie Hall and is told, “Practice, practice, practice.” Obviously, this is good advice if you want to become a world-class performer — but it’s also good advice if you want to become a top-notch leader.
Tom Spencer
OCTOBER 20, 2018
In the past few years, there has been a lot of hype around blockchain. Investors have been blindly investing exuberant amounts of money without clearly understanding the viability of blockchain based business models. VC funding for blockchain start-ups has consistently grown, with venture investment reaching around $1 billion in 2017 (and likely to be more than double that amount in 2018).
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Consultants' Consultant
OCTOBER 21, 2018
Consultants Consultant: If you’re an internal consultant and your work is perceived to be free, you can have major issues with overload. You need to learn how to make no sound like yes as well as FEEL like yes. I have a program that teaches you how, and I’ve posted on this before: Do less and obsess: […]. The post Make no sound and feel like a yes appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.
Strategy+Business
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Leaders need to use great care when choosing the words that shape companies, industries, and societies.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 24, 2018
Here it is/Getty Images. You and about 20 of your coworkers are sitting around a crowded conference room table, discussing the details of some project. Some people are fighting for attention, trying to get a word in. Others won’t stop talking. Others have tuned the meeting out, retreating to their laptops or phones. At the end of the meeting, the only real outcome is the decision to schedule a follow-up meeting with a smaller group — a group that can actually make some decisions and
Tom Spencer
OCTOBER 20, 2018
Blockchain – the underlying technology first used in Bitcoin – is a new type of distributed consensus system that enables transactions to be quickly validated and securely maintained through cryptography, computational power, and network users, removing the need for a trusted centralized authority. The blockchain provides an immutable record and audit trail of transactions and agreements that are replicated on computers around the world, thereby eliminating a single point of failure.
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Consultants' Consultant
OCTOBER 25, 2018
Consultants Consultant: Values matter: Aaron Artery is a decision scientist, and head of Customer Crunch. He’s. The post Aaron Artery on Smarter Data People Podcast appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.
Chad Barr
OCTOBER 24, 2018
Photo by: Chad Barr. One of my favorite words is instantiation or to instantiate. Its meaning is to make the complex simple. My opinion is that we are all guilty (self included) at creating too much complexity in our life and business. Occam’s Razor theory suggests that of any set of explanations for an event occurring, it is most likely that the simplest one is the correct one.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 25, 2018
Apexphotos/Getty Images. The debate about superstar firms and superstar effects has been intensifying, partly in response to the rapid growth of global US tech companies. However, scratch the surface and the superstar phenomenon may not be quite what it seems. Wider dynamics may be at play. In our recent research at the McKinsey Global Institute, we examined the superstar phenomenon across firms, as well as sectors and cities.
Strategy+Business
OCTOBER 25, 2018
Waiting to make a choice can lead to more effective outcomes.
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Consultants' Consultant
OCTOBER 25, 2018
Consultants Consultant: David Scott and his agile teams are doing some very interesting work with traffic. The post David Scott on Smarter Data People Podcast appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.
Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC
OCTOBER 23, 2018
It doesn’t take much for a leader to show she cares for her team. My company is wrapping up a ‘listening’ and training tour for one of our clients. The new CEO asked us to provide leadership training to help her managers and supervisors enhance their own and their teams’ performance and outline a list of feasible solutions she could move forward to help them, help their teams, and help their customers.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 25, 2018
amriphoto/Getty Images. Innovative. Agile. Collaborative. Bold. Over the past year, we’ve been struck by how many times we’ve heard C-suite leaders use these words, or very similar ones, to describe the strengths they believe are critical to transforming their businesses, and to competing effectively in a disruptive era. What’s equally striking is how difficult organizations are finding it to embed these qualities and behaviors in their people.
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