David A Fields
APRIL 24, 2018
Being smart and producing high-value content aren’t sufficient to win new consulting clients. Unless you expose a broader universe of prospects to your content, your opportunities to win business will stay narrow. On the up side, you have a right to be proud of your work.
Women in Consulting
APRIL 23, 2018
By: Elliot Olson. :: As a website developer and communications consultant in the competitive Bay Area, I must be ready to pitch my services at the drop of a hat. Over the years, I have honed my elevator speech and endlessly rehearsed talking to potential clients about their website and media needs. However, conversations invariably turn to that sticky question…“So, what’s your hourly fee?”.
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Tom Spencer
APRIL 22, 2018
Case competitions are amazing opportunities to demonstrate your ‘case cracking’ abilities in front of industry judges, quickly expand your network, and win great prizes. I was fortunate enough to be involved with several during my undergraduate days, both as a participant and as a judge. I even started one, which is now one of the largest case competitions in the Waterloo, Canada region.
Clarity Consultants
APRIL 26, 2018
ELearning is a format that makes sense for all age groups, particularly as more and more demographics gain access to digital content and devices. But where it really shines is in the corporate realm. Adults are capable of being great learners, but sometimes (especially for eLearning programs) obstacles may arise. Here's a quick look at some of the most common learning barriers older learners encounter, and a few tips to help you overcome those obstacles.
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Harvard Business
APRIL 23, 2018
Philip gould/Getty Images. When you’re a leader — no matter how long you’ve been in your role or how hard the journey was to get there — you are merely overhead unless you’re bringing out the best in your employees. Unfortunately, many leaders lose sight of this. Power, as my colleague Ena Inesi has studied, can cause leaders to become overly obsessed with outcomes and control, and, therefore, treat their employees as means to an end.
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Management Consulted
APRIL 27, 2018
Is there a happy medium between killing it an internship and having a little bit of fun this summer? There is now. In line with gaining real-world, practical experience with a group of brilliant peers, and catered towards the ones … Continued. The post Italia Innovation Consulting Immersion appeared first on Management Consulted.
Tom Spencer
APRIL 22, 2018
Nudge Theory , first formulated by the Nobel Laureate Richard Thaler , is part of a relatively new field called behavioral economics, which believes that subtle conditioning and small environmental changes can actually have a profound impact on the behavior of individuals and groups. This theory, and the practical repercussions of it, have been taken to heart by governments, businesses, and other institutions.
Harvard Business
APRIL 27, 2018
PM Images/Getty Images. For years, companies, universities and nonprofits have researched the reasons why women are less likely to enter STEM field s — and why, once they enter, they face challenges that frequently push them out. In prior research , we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% of highly qualified women working for science, technology, or engineering companies leave their jobs.
Markovitz Consulting
APRIL 26, 2018
I recently gave a talk to the Bay Area chapter of the Lean Construction Institute. One of the most active discussions centered on how the lean concept of flow translates to individual work. (This was a topic in my first book, A Factory of One.) The group concluded that enabling people to have flow in their work is a demonstration of respect for humanity.
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The Fearless Marketer
APRIL 23, 2018
Other than substance abuse, what is the most destructive habit or addiction facing American Society? Since mid 2015, I believe the top destructive addictive habit for many Amercians has been following national political news. And I’m not just throwing around the word addiction casually. According to the American Society of Addictive Medicine: “Addiction is characterized by an inability to consistently abstain (from a substance), impairment in behavioral control, craving, diminished recognition o
CaseInterview.com
APRIL 25, 2018
You can approach life in one of two ways. You can focus on surviving, or you can focus on thriving. There’s a time and place for both approaches. Like most things in life, neither is inherently good or bad. These approaches are merely tools — to be applied in the appropriate situation. More than approaches to life, they are categories of skills. Surviving is a skill set.
Harvard Business
APRIL 27, 2018
beastfromeast/Getty Images. Not long ago, I had the chance to speak to a networking group for job seekers over the age of 40. Many of the people in attendance had worked for over 10 years at companies and were then let go. A number of them had been out of work for six months or more and were starting to get worried about their prospects of finding a job.
Strategy+Business
APRIL 22, 2018
In The Tyranny of Metrics, history professor Jerry Muller reminds us that not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
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Tom Spencer
APRIL 22, 2018
During my senior year, I had a final round interview with one of the MBB. As it is close to nearly impossible to even receive an interview from these companies coming from a non-target school (only two students received an interview that year from my school), I really wanted this offer, and I had been preparing for weeks. Yet on the day of the interview, I distinctly remember walking out of the office feeling uneasy about my performance — I didn’t click with the interviewers and I couldn’t drive
Management Consulting Prep
APRIL 22, 2018
Here is one question I get quite a lot all the time: “I know what management consultants do is to solve business problems of their clients. But at the end. The post Day In The Life Of A Consultant appeared first on Management Consulting Prep.
Harvard Business
APRIL 24, 2018
Donna Grethen/Getty Images. We often hear about the power of personality, and how some traits are beneficial for our careers while others are more harmful. For example, we know that being more conscientious (hard-working, driven, reliable, and organized) is associated with better job performance, and that being nice (more agreeable) does not pay off in wages.
Strategy+Business
APRIL 22, 2018
In The Tyranny of Metrics, history professor Jerry Muller reminds us that not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
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Seth Godin Blog
APRIL 25, 2018
A note to the customer who just had a meltdown. To the groom without a perfect wedding, to the rental car customer who had to wait twenty minutes, and to the boss who's furious that the delivery wasn't as promised. We heard you. We, as in the people you were seeking to impact, and we as in the rest of us as well, the innocent bystanders. Actually, we heard you the first time.
Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC
APRIL 24, 2018
My mom shared an impactful saying with me when I was in my teens. She said, “You are the average of the five people with whom you most often associate.”. I don’t remember the specifics of the conversation, but I do know she was subtly telling me to continue to be smart in whom I chose to befriend. I’ve heeded her advice and it’s never let me down. This advice applies to us in the workplace and as leaders too.
Harvard Business
APRIL 23, 2018
vincent tsui for hbr. When someone you work with annoys you, it’s tempting to avoid the person as much as possible. But this isn’t always feasible and often only makes the situation worse. You’re better off cultivating some empathy. How can you do that with a colleague who rubs you the wrong way? How can you foster curiosity instead of animosity?
Strategy+Business
APRIL 24, 2018
How to navigate from task to task with greater efficiency.
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Seth Godin Blog
APRIL 24, 2018
You don't apply. You don't get a salary. No one picks you. Bragging about how much money you've raised or what your valuation is a form of job thinking. Entrepreneurship is a chance to trade a solution to someone who has a problem that needs solving. Solve more problems, solve bigger problems, solve problems more widely and you're an entrepreneur. It's tempting to industrialize this work, to make it something with rules and bosses and processes.
Chad Barr
APRIL 25, 2018
It’s Wednesday, middle of the week, and time for reflection once again. It’s been a busy start to my week; calls, consulting and all the work that I enjoy so much. I’ve just dropped my wife, Laurel, off at the airport so she can fly to Orlando to watch the grandkids, (lucky grandma), as our son in law and daughter fly to a big job interview up north.
Harvard Business
APRIL 25, 2018
hamzaturkkol/Getty Images. When employees lack self-confidence, it can be hard to get them to perform at their best. So how can you help them excel at their job? What kind of coaching should you provide? What’s the best way to boost their self-esteem? And how do you deal with your own frustration around their insecure behavior? What the Experts Say.
Strategy+Business
APRIL 24, 2018
How to navigate from task to task with greater efficiency.
Speaker: Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader
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Seth Godin Blog
APRIL 23, 2018
If you're working in an office, here are some of the checklist items that might have been omitted: Add energy to every conversation. Ask why. Find obsolete things on your task list and remove them. Treat customers better than they expect. Offer to help co-workers before they ask. Feed the plants. Leave things more organized than you found them. Invent a moment of silliness.
Actionable
APRIL 23, 2018
Curiosity is both an attribute of high-performing teams and a personal habit. We are born with it—and we need to cultivate it. The post The Habit of Curiosity appeared first on Actionable.co.
Harvard Business
APRIL 27, 2018
Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images. On a Saturday night in Modena, a picturesque city in one of the most well-known culinary regions of Italy, a couple and their two young sons dined at the three-Michelin star restaurant Osteria Francescana. The father ordered for the family “Tradition in Evolution,” a tasting menu with 10 of the restaurant’s most popular dishes.
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