David A Fields

OCTOBER 10, 2023

When your consulting firm delivers recommendations well, your clients appreciate your work and compliment you. When your recommendations are delivered with the nuance and power of a John Williams score (e.g., Star Wars, ET, Harry Potter, Jaws, etc.), your clients love your work, their trust in your consulting firm blossoms, they find more ways to … Continued The post 5 Notes to Ensure Your Consulting Firm’s Recommendations Resonate appeared first on David A.

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Consulting Success

OCTOBER 13, 2023

How can you — the solo consultant or small consulting firm owner — consult like the most prestigious consulting firm in the world? In this article, we’ve broken down the book The McKinsey Way to help you do exactly that. The McKinsey Way by Ethan Raisel (Background) McKinsey & Company is a consulting firm founded.

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Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Are your consultancy or coaching offers falling flat? Could you be making critical mistakes without even realizing it? Prepare to unearth the art and science of developing alluring offers for your consulting and coaching business, a transformative skill that could be the game-changer you need. This episode promises to shed light on the distinct differences between products, services, and offers, and why sharpening your focus on offers can be a business-altering move.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2023

There’s a popular fallacy that encourages big-project managers to forge ahead as quickly as they can, on the basis that the payoffs will likely be bigger than they imagine. A careful empirical analysis of more than 2,000 big-project outcomes by the authors of this article, experts in project management and behavioral science, suggests that this is not the case — a Just-Do-It strategy ends badly 80% of the time.

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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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Chad Barr

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Tonight, as I sit down to write this newsletter, my heart is heavy with a mix of dread and hope. Many of you know my background as an Israeli, a veteran, and a reservist of the Israel Defense Forces. I watch the unfolding events in my homeland, concerned for my family and friends and those who are reservists now called up for active duty. But this isn’t just my struggle; it’s a global one.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In the previous article , we looked at how banks make money and how they must meet capital requirements. In this article, we will explore the importance of profitability ratios and valuation metrics that are crucial when analyzing banks. There are seven key profitability ratios and two valuation metrics that it is important to understand. We will examine each in turn. 1.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Hard work comes in two equally important forms: effort to perform and effort to improve. But too often, we only focus on the first part and become trapped in lengthy to-do lists. The author calls this the “performance zone.” When we switch our lens to include efforts to improve, entering what he calls the “learning zone,” we can get things done in ways that make us more effective.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 10, 2023

When I saw the McKinsey report on “developer productivity,” I shuddered. First, that makes no sense in a collaborative team. Second, there's no way to measure such a thing as developer productivity, despite what McKinsey says. (I'm not linking to the report, because the advice is so bad.) Then I read Lorin Hochstein's brilliant assessment in On productivity metrics and management consultants.

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Office Skills

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Why Should You Listen? Having good active listening skills is one of the most important soft skills that you can possess in business as companies love to hire employees who […] The post 9 Tips to Improve your Active Listening Skills appeared first on Office Skills Training.

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Makarios Consulting

OCTOBER 10, 2023

As a leader, when you hear the words “change management,” you may cringe inside. Perhaps you remember a change that was rough, such as handling a large layoff or learning to comply with complex regulations or being acquired in a hostile takeover. Yet change management is not only called for in difficult circumstances; it is also vital in the midst of changes that are seen as positive by everyone affected.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Generative AI has revolutionized the professional landscape. McKinsey’s recent findings suggest that by 2030, 30% of tasks across the U.S. economy might be automated, up from 21% before generative AI. But what does this mean for those senior professionals who have dedicated decades to developing skills in a specific field? A study from the impact of AI on the future of workforces in the European Union and U.S. explains that older workers are most exposed to AI, because AI performs tasks that bel

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Ben de Haldevang

OCTOBER 7, 2023

This week our podcast is all about an interesting convergence between: future strategy in the fossil future sector which has a very limited long term future but continues to make great returns for its shareholders; the challenge of current and future employees and how this might have an impact on employment strategy going forward; and lastly the role of government in determining the future.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Many leaders achieve their goals and even increase company revenue. But, in a world of fast-paced change and complexity, businesses need employees who will proactively engage in problem-solving, make change happen, and take the initiative to innovate. To create a competitive advantage, leaders need a committed team that can take charge. However, challenging the status quo in most organizations is risky.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The experiment continues. My weekly 60 seconds of some writing in progress (WIP). This one is from a short story. The post 60 Seconds of Johanna’s WIP October 12, 2023 appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Lots of variables influence our day-to-day decision making — though perhaps none more potently than the attitudes and preferences of other people. The human instinct to seek belonging with others helps us collaborate and build systems and societies. But it also gives ill-intentioned people an opening to mislead, lull, and even coerce us into serving their interests instead of our own.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Andy Lansing reveals the two ingredients to achieving business success that led to the growth of their company to more than 50,000 employees.

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Kraft Kennedy

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Issue Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in NetScaler ADC (formerly Citrix ADC) and NetScaler Gateway (formerly Citrix Gateway). CVD-ID Description Pre-Requisites CWE CVSS CVE-2023-4966 Sensitive information disclosure Appliance must be configured as a Gateway (VPN virtual server, ICA Proxy, CVPN, RDP Proxy) OR AAA virtual server CWE-119 9.4 CVE-2023-4967 Denial of service Appliance must be configured as a Gateway (VPN virtual server, ICA Proxy, CVPN, RDP Proxy) OR AAA virtual server

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OCTOBER 13, 2023

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 12, 2023

On a hybrid project, communication and coordination become both more critical and more challenging. Digital tools and meetings may be the only way some team members can keep in touch. In the author’s experience running dozens of web development and content projects, there are three key areas for hybrid project managers to think about: How to plan and kick off the project with the right people and expectations, how to set up tools so everyone can use them, and how to use meetings effectively.

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Consultants' Consultant

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Consultants Consultant: Fred is one of those “lucky” consultants who makes sustainable workplace change. Part of. The post Writing procedures people use appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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The Consultants Peer Group

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Fifth in a Series How to Differentiate Yourself and Your Consultancy Five Ways to Raise Your Game - Certification as a Consultant By David Norman, FCMC, CMC-AF In the first four blogs of this series we outlined three (of five) key differentiators you can use to clearly separate yourself and your consulting practice from the estimated 850,000 to 1,000,000 other consultants in the U.S. today.

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Business Consulting Agency

OCTOBER 12, 2023

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In the face of escalating complexities, organizations are increasingly relying on teams to tackle these intricate issues and drive pivotal organizational decisions. To extract maximum value from team dynamics, leaders must remain mindful of potential biases that may impact team dynamics and to actively steer and fine-tune team processes. Specifically, the authors urge leaders to address a decision-making bias they call the solution fixation trap, which emerges when a team rushes into discussing

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Consultants' Consultant

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Consultants Consultant: I’ve been working through the podcast You are Not So Smart by David McRaney. The post How minds change – a primer appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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Nash Consulting

OCTOBER 9, 2023

By now, we all understand that disagreements are a natural part of human interactions, but they don't have to be destructive. Instead of engaging in heated, free-for-all debates that often lead nowhere, consider using a version of the IMAGO conversation process. This approach ensures that everyone's opinions are heard and understood fully. Let's dive into the steps of an IMAGO conversation to effectively navigate disagreements.

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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.

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