Henry DeVries

DECEMBER 27, 2019

If you are a consultant who wants to attract more-paying clients in 2020, what are the top ten trends you should have on your radar?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Don’t let the weight of your job squash your sense of self.

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The Fearless Marketer

DECEMBER 22, 2019

There once was a magnificent city named Bubble City. It was a wonderful place. Everybody knew everyone else. And all its inhabitants felt familiar and safe. It was a bustling city full of life, energy, and businesses that met their every need. And was called Bubble City because there was a big glass bubble covering it, protecting it from the outside world.

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Martinka Consulting

DECEMBER 26, 2019

This is something I sent to our clients recently and realized it has good lessons for all. I’ve been involved in a real estate buy-sell transaction as over the last 18 months we’ve been trying to sell our family cabin in the Midwest. In this part of the country it is not a red-hot real estate market, with only one exception and the exception is places on a chain of lakes, which our place is not.

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Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker

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David A Fields

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Millions of people give gifts on the day of this article’s publication. Forget the millions of people, though. You know who’s really interesting? You. The rest of this article is really short; however, you can only read it if you commit to take action–an action that will require under 1 minute of your time. Do … Continued. The post Your Consulting Firm’s Most Important Gifts appeared first on David A.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 27, 2019

These four mindsets can help you transform the culture.

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Rick Conlow

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Life has the habit of wearing us down. Positive living is hard to do. Will positive thinking really help us in defeat? Rejection? Frustration? Setbacks? Illness? Or, critics? Unfortunately, we all are confronted with these kinds of challenges in life. It’s part of the human condition. Most of us do try positive thinking to get through it all. I have discovered that all of us are engulfed by insidious enemies more challenging than life’s ups and downs.

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Clarity Consultants

DECEMBER 23, 2019

By creating paths that feature numerous pitstops, you can deliver a massive amount of information over time, allowing you to cover more ground while boosting information retention. The post How to Guide Your Team Through Segmented Learning Paths appeared first on Clarity Consultants - Training Development.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Wishing you a happy holiday season! Thank you for being a reader of the Consulting Blog. We look forward to sharing with you more insights on consulting, strategy, and innovation during 2020. Christmas is a time of year to eat, drink, and be merry! Hopefully you will be able to take a break from your busy life, and spend a bit of quality time with friends and family.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Aim for incremental improvements over breakthrough inventions.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 23, 2019

I’ve always been fascinating by turn signals on cars. It’s such a simple thing. You make the left light blink on the rear of your car to signal to others your intention to change lanes or make a left turn. I’m fascinating by the dynamics around what happens when signals aren’t sent or when others don’t like your signal. In a traffic jam, signaling your intention to change lanes often causes adversarial drivers to close the gap, making it impossible for you to change lanes safely.

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Henry DeVries

DECEMBER 26, 2019

You should want to be at your best when it comes to referrals. For attracting high-paying clients, referrals are a critical part of the game. Are you getting coaching and practicing your referral skills?

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Alan Weiss

DECEMBER 27, 2019

I received an angry letter this morning from a “virtual assistant” who took umbrage (I must buy stock in umbrage, it’s used quite often) with my writing somewhere in one of my books (I write a lot of stuff) that virtual assistants are not necessary for independent consultants and can even be a negative. I did NOT write that virtual assistants are incompetent or lazy, just that, for this profession, they are a fifth wheel.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 24, 2019

It’ll take more than subsidizing mass transit or encouraging ride-sharing, according to new research.

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Chad Barr

DECEMBER 25, 2019

December 24, 2019. An average day in the Barr household, dreary grey skies with misty fog, and an early start on the pickleball court. The recreation center was not at its usual bustling capacity this morning, though the young basketball hopefuls were out in force on the courts practicing dribbling and shooting on a full court press. We stopped at a nearly empty FedEx on the way home at 11 am, and the roads were already starting to be thick with cars on their way to someone’s home to begin the h

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Management and IT Consulting

DECEMBER 23, 2019

60% of small to mid-sized firms cite “differentiating our firm from the competition” as a top priority, but how exactly is that accomplished? Read on to learn the secrets to how some firms are able to achieve more than 20% growth year over year.

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Alan Weiss

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Your fees should be based on value. Value is the improvement in the buyer’s condition. Solving problems is not as valuable (because most organizations are pretty good at that) as innovation and improvement. Value emanates from business objectives, which are external (e.g., greater market share) and not internal (“align our communications”).

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 24, 2019

A study of 3,500 posts offers insights for digital marketers.

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Martinka Consulting

DECEMBER 21, 2019

On October 23 we had our 12 th annual Getting the Deal Done Breakfast Conference at the Bellevue Club. As always, our sponsors and expert panelists (beside myself) were PRK Law (Greg Russell), Hutchinson Walter (Marc Hutchinson), Columbia Bank (Bill Barclay, and Chinook Capital Advisors (John O’Dore). Of course, we couldn’t have done it without our ~175 attendees (I don’t have the exact count yet, but Jessica told me she counted three empty chairs).

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Seth Godin Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Is popular the same as good? Is popular possible? Is popular your goal? There are tens of thousands of humans spending their days trying to be popular on Instagram, buying outfits, wearing hats and seeking their version of cute. People from all backgrounds and genders, hoping to be the next Kardashian. Facebook is filled with anonymous bots seeking to be popular.

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Alan Weiss

DECEMBER 21, 2019

People take some days off for the holidays, but they don’t go on sabbatical! If you decide to stop marketing for the month then stop wondering why your sales pipeline is dry during the first quarter of 2020.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Airing it out is better than bottling it up.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The Challenge of Organizational Change. Change management consultants have long sought to remove barriers to organizational change. With change a constant for most companies, flexible and agile organizations that can adapt to new challenges and new constraints will succeed in the long term. Until the most common roadblocks to change are fully understood, change will continue to be a struggle for most organizations.

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Seth Godin Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Peace might not mean getting everyone else to do what you want them to do. Instead, it might involve understanding that people don’t always want what we want and don’t often believe what we believe. Everyone has their own narrative and is struggling with their own fears. We can begin there. Most of the time, people want to be seen, understood and appreciated.

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Leadership Vision Consulting

DECEMBER 22, 2019

This is a re-release episode where Brian Schubring and Nathan Freeburg talk about how to take our origin stories and frame them in ways that put them in their rightful place. To do this, we share five steps that will help us acknowledge the role our past has played in shaping our present and future. We'll also share some tips for giving it an appropriate place in our current life.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Nancy McKinstry, CEO of Wolters Kluwer, has successfully shifted her company’s business to digital products over 15 years. The Dutch multinational started in the 1830s as a publishing house and now earns more than 90% of its revenue from digital. McKinstry explains how her firm kept investing in product innovation – and how she learned to be patient as consumers slowly adopted new products and services.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Include a forwardable email with key details.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Lessons from two devastating California wildfires.

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