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Intentions, Not Goals or To-Dos

The Fearless Marketer

Do you have goals for your business and your marketing? Do you have a list of to-do items aligned with those goals? If so, great, but today I’d like you to think about intentions. An intention is defined as “an aim or a plan.”. And intentions are more directional than goals. A goal is a very specific thing you want to accomplish. Goal: My goal is to attract three new clients in the next two months.

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Is Delegation a Bad Word?

Peter Stark

Delegation is not a bad word, but sometimes it can feel like it if you are a coach. It definitely gains some eye rolling when we mention it to leaders we are coaching. In today’s covid environment, we have found that some leaders are struggling to delegate to their staff. The reasons vary from ‘my staff is already too overwhelmed’ to ‘I am too busy to train someone on this now.

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Five characteristics of great managers

The Management Centre

On our management programmes we regularly discuss what it means to be a great manager. When we ask people what they themselves want from their managers we continually hear the five key themes: direction, openness, modelling, trust and challenge. Direction. We want our managers to provide us with a sense of direction. In order to feel committed we need to be clear about what we are aiming to achieve, what the priorities are and why.

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An Impeccable Source of Language for Your Consulting Firm’s Marketing

David A Fields

Picture a deeper, healthier client list and pipeline for your consulting firm—the type you’d have if you communicated your consulting firm’s value in language that instantly resonated with the exact people you want to attract. The source of that alluring, sticky language is at your fingertips. It’s tricky to develop exactly the right wording to … Continued.

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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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Step-By-Step Business Development For Consultants With Tom McMakin: Podcast #179

Consulting Success

If you’re a consulting firm and you want to know the hows of business development and expansion, then this episode is for you. Michael Zipursky’s guest today is Tom McMakin, the CEO and Partner of Profitable Ideas Exchange. There are generally two ways to grow your business: getting new clients and deepening your relationship with. Step-By-Step Business Development For Consultants With Tom McMakin: Podcast #179 is a post from: Consulting Success.

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Enlightening Conversation on the Badass Agile Podcast

Johanna Rothman

I had a terrific time with Chris Williams on his Badass Agile podcast. We discussed the Modern Management Made Easy books. (Let me just say, I love the fact that I can now say I am a Badass. Hehehe.). We had a terrific discussion. Some of the topics we covered: Are managers born or made? The seven principles I covered in the books. How managers need to collaborate to achieve agility.

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Your Silence Speaks Volumes: Speak and Lead Proactively

Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC

How you communicate as a leader is critical. There’s nothing new in that. However, what I’m finding more frequently is that leaders aren’t appreciating how loudly their silence speaks to their teams and what their silence says about their leadership. Whether it’s a company president, director of regional sales, or a team lead, leaders are staying silent too often.

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LIVE: How to Make Your Workplace More Inclusive & Accessible

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

In a 2015 study, Deloitte reported that diverse companies earned 2.3 times higher cash flow per employee. And while diversity may just be a measure of success, inclusion is the ultimate goal. An inclusive workplace can improve the wellbeing of your employees, boost moral, and increase productivity. And on top of that, being truly inclusive will widen your pool of talent to choose from.

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Remote Workers Need Small Talk, Too

Harvard Business

Four ways to encourage casual conversations in a virtual setting.

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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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The Gear That Makes Consulting So Much Easier!

Tom Spencer

As a regular mentor to new consultants, I regularly find myself addressing some challenges of consulting life by simply recommending gear acquisitions based upon my personal experience. After much extensive feedback about how helpful my recommendations have been, I thought it would be helpful to share the wealth with a wider audience. For those who are about to matriculate into consulting or recently started, this can really help you start off well equipped.

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7 Ways to Lead Positively without the Title

Rick Conlow

Real leaders do not depend on the “leader” label to launch their leadership legacy. They lead in the moment anyway. Here is what I mean by that – a leader is one who is in the top role by title or influence relating to a group, team, organization, business, or country. Because of this, many everyday employees don’t consider it the right time to begin their own leadership efforts.

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Maria Gallo—DelVal University Is Now Soaring Thanks To Blue Ocean Strategy®

On the Brink Podcast

Hear how an innovative approach paid off, big time ! By becoming President of Delaware Valley University, Dr. Maria Gallo broke a very hard glass ceiling, which is why I wanted to repost my podcast with her during Women's History Month. In 2020, only 38% of college presidents were women, despite the fact that women represent over half the students in higher ed institutions.

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Crowdfunding Can Deliver More Than Just Money

Harvard Business

It’s an unparalleled opportunity to solicit input from your customers.

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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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Lessons Learned from my First Year in Consulting

Tom Spencer

Often, individuals rush to study degrees with the hope that after graduating, they can transfer that knowledge to the respective fields they will be working in. This isn’t entirely false, but it isn’t entirely true either. The wealth of knowledge one gains while studying a three or four-year degree cannot automatically be transferred within an organisation.

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The Smartest Person in the Room

CaseInterview.com

Your ability to be the smartest person in the room is highly dependent on your willingness to be the dumbest person in the room. Note: The rooms in these two situations are typically not the same room! In public work life, I often feel bemused by the amount of attention I get for my achievements. While I intellectually understand it, emotionally, it feels unwarranted.

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Jamie Candee—Proving That Women Can Lead Businesses To Success

On the Brink Podcast

Can women can be great leaders? You better believe it. Ever wonder how some business leaders can take a company forward, build its bottom line, and engage its employees and customers in such a way that everyone does better? Meet Jamie Candee. I interviewed Jamie for this podcast back in 2018 and it was such a terrific conversation that I'm reposting it for Women's History Month.

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Be More Realistic About the Time You Have

Harvard Business

Five strategies to help you stop overloading your workday.

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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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Selling Your Competitive Advantages in Consulting

Tom Spencer

Looking back to consulting recruiting in graduate school, I always think about how interesting it was that so much of the conversation among candidates was about getting an offer from a top consulting firm. Yet, I don’t remember many conversations about succeeding within a consulting firm after joining. I want to shed some light on that vastly underappreciated matter by examining the important topic of how to identify and sell your competitive advantage.

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“Does that make sense?”

Kai Davis

I stumbled across a question today on Twitter asking how to solicit your clients’ questions in an email or message. Tweet Quote: I always want to say, “Does that make sense?” at the end of an email/message that explains something but feels like that sounds belittling. What’s a better way to say the same? Two insights here. First, no one wants to raise their hand and self-select as not understanding something.

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259: Claus Raasted—Now Is The Time To Turn Your Big Ideas Into Great Innovations!

On the Brink Podcast

Hear how embracing the unfamiliar unlocks your best ideas! Often when I am looking for interesting people to bring to our podcast listeners, I am introduced to unexpectedly fascinating folks like Claus Raasted. A n innovation strategist, Claus has been pushing the limits of the possible for 20 years. He is Director at The College of Extraordinary Experiences, a Coach at McKinsey & Company, and posts a daily innovation keynote on his YouTube channel.

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To Lead Better Under Stress, Understand Your Three Selves

Harvard Business

A framework to explore why you make the decisions you do — and how to make better ones.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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Social connection is a leadership priority. Here’s why.

Brimstone Consulting

Social connection impacts trust, productivity, engagement, and job satisfaction. It also anchors teams in times of complexity. Social connection, the feeling that you belong to a group and generally feel close to other people, is a fundamental human need. Social connection improves our physical health and our psychological well-being. Lack of social connection has been found to be a greater detriment to health than obesity, smoking, and high blood pressure.

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10 More Reasons to Repurpose Your Content

Chad Barr

I was getting ready to write my next newsletter on the topic of why it is important for us to repurpose our content. I decided to first do a quick search on my own blog as I discovered the article 10 Reasons to Repurpose Your Content (which I just repurposed ) written last year. So, in the spirit of challenging myself to improve on what I previously wrote and stay true to the concept of repurposing content, here are my next 10 reason to do so: Discover your earlier viewpoints and perspectives so

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Authenticity and Vulnerability

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: Authenticity, psychological safety and vulnerability are particularly relevant as the world goes through major. The post Authenticity and Vulnerability appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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Building Trust into Telehealth

Harvard Business

Four recommendations to improve the (virtual) doctor-patient relationship.

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Pricing for Profit: How to Set, Negotiate, and Succeed

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

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How to Collaborate, Influence, & Leverage EQ to Succeed in Your Life & Career in 2021 w/Kristin Harper Ep#94

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

Kristin Harper is the CEO of Driven to Succeed, a leadership development firm focused on brand innovation and reinvention for businesses and high achieving individuals around the world. She's also the author of Heart of a Leader: 52 Emotional Intelligence Insights to Advance Your Career.

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Time to retire “diversity of thought”?

The Source

Consultants pride themselves on being right at the vanguard of conversations taking place within their industries, and on having a point of view on all of the issues that matter to their clients. And in 2020, it was nigh on impossible to do that without paying attention to the topic of diversity and inclusion. The George Floyd protests and the Black Lives Matter movement shone a light on issues of racial injustice; at the same time, as the year dragged on, it became increasingly apparent that th

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The ‘Not Now’ List

Kai Davis

For March, I’ve been working on a pair of website refreshes for two of my properties/productized service businesses: My done-for-you Podcast Tour property (Get On Podcasts!). My Growth + SEO Consultancy for Shopify Merchants (Double Your Ecommerce). Over the years, I’ve learned that the downright best way to get my brain thinking on marketing strategy and growth tactics is to be elbow deep writing copy for services.