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What Your Consulting Firm Should Do RIGHT NOW

David A Fields

Happy New Year! It’s the first week of the year and one thing you’re probably wondering is what you and your consulting firm should do first. Right now. Your consulting prospects are asking the same question. What should they do now? What should their priority be? Unfortunately, their list could be topped with challenges that … Continued. The post What Your Consulting Firm Should Do RIGHT NOW appeared first on David A.

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The Post-Holiday Funk Is Real

Harvard Business

Why we feel it — and how to beat it.

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Re-Release What Do Your Strengths Need to Thrive and to Survive? (podcast)

Leadership Vision Consulting

On this episode of the Leadership Vision podcast, Brian Schubring, our founder and president talks about how to understand what our Strengths need to thrive and what they need to survive. We have found that you’ve reached a deeper level of awareness when you’re able to articulate exactly what your Strengths need in both of these situations. Thriving and surviving may seem like contradictory or even opposite states of being, but actually, we’ve found them to be more similar than different.

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How Anxiety Traps Us, and How We Can Break Free

Harvard Business

Some exercises for reframing your fears, doubts, and uncertainties.

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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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Free PST Practice by Types

Management Consulting Prep

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Designing Functions to be Integrators of Complex Organizations

Kates Kesler

Functional organizations are the mortar that holds the building blocks of a complex organization together.

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Are You Pushing Yourself Too Hard at Work?

Harvard Business

Five signs to look out for.

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Costs of an Agile Approach for Hardware Products

Johanna Rothman

I had a conversation with a hardware engineer whose organization got the mandate, “Go agile or bust!” They're attempting to manage their technical and schedule risk with two-week iterations. And, they're trying to show finished product , not simulations. And, even though they work independently, they're supposed to have a standup every day.

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Strategic Planning Retreat Facilitation that Works

LSA Global

Strategic Planning Retreat Facilitation. When you invest the time, energy, and money in strategic planning retreat facilitation, you want to be sure that your investment pays off. The stakes are high for strategy retreats; people need clear, compelling, and meaningful results that move the needle. Strategic Planning Retreats Often Underdeliver. According to Harvard Business Review, companies, on average, only deliver sixty-three percent of the financial performance that they promised.

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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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A box of infinity

Seth Godin Blog

It’s hard to look right at it. The possibility that lies before us, the chance to connect, to lead, to be heard–it’s bigger than it’s ever been. Tempting indeed to avert your eyes, because staring into infinity means embracing just how small we feel. We avert our eyes because to realize how much potential we have to contribute puts us on the hook.

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Real Mentorship Starts with Company Culture, Not Formal Programs

Harvard Business

Talent development is an informal, day-to-day process.

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The Top Sustainability Stories of 2019

Harvard Business

From climate protests to vegan burgers.

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When Individuals Are More Innovative Than Teams

Harvard Business

It depends on what the goal is.

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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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Survey: What Makes You Accept or Reject a Pitch?

Harvard Business

Your answers will help inform a better approach.

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The Right Way to Form New Habits

Harvard Business

James Clear, entrepreneur and author, says that the way we go about trying to form new habits and break bad ones — at work or home — is all wrong. Many people, he says, focus on big goals without thinking about the small steps they need to take along the way. Just like saving money, habits accrue compound interest: when you do 1% more or different each day or week, it eventually leads to meaningful improvement.

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What the Biggest Business Deals of 2019 Tell Us About the Next Decade

Harvard Business

How will businesses respond to the power of technology and the threat of climate change?

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Strategies for Managing Day-to-Day Anxiety

Harvard Business

Anxiety can affect so many aspects of our work – from how we make decisions to how we receive feedback and behave in meetings. In the final episode of Season 1, host Morra Aarons-Mele and former clinical psychologist Alice Boyes discuss the daily strategies and habits that can help to manage your anxiety at work.

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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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Dear HBR: My New Coworker Is a Nightmare … and I Helped Her Get the Job

Harvard Business

What to do when a new team member pushes your buttons.

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Dear HBR: My New Coworker Is a Nightmare … and I Helped Her Get the Job

Harvard Business

What to do when a new team member pushes your buttons.

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Priorities

Seth Godin Blog

It’s comforting to use someone else’s priorities to guide our work. It lets us off the hook. But the only way to do our best work is to realize that part of what it means to do our work is to own the priorities as well. Your boat, your compass.

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Top speed is overrated

Seth Godin Blog

The Amtrak Acela is capable of going well over a hundred miles an hour. And yet, it’s not unusual for a 90-mile ride on the Acela to be only three or four minutes shorter than it would be on a more traditional train. I can drive my Prius from NY to Syracuse faster than I can fly there. Even though a plane has been engineered to have a much higher top speed, the door to door costs of travel (security theatre, parking, checking in, the rest of the last mile once I land) aren’t impacted

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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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Things unknown

Seth Godin Blog

Knowledge is a great equalizer. It’s available to more people than ever before, in exchange for effort, and the person with insight has an extraordinary advantage over the one who doesn’t. So, what don’t you know? Which tools could help you do your work better… What strategies have been proven to work in this situation… What’s been tried that hasn’t worked… Where is the line between the immutable laws governing this field and the variables that hum

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Slow is relative

Seth Godin Blog

In between the holidays, it all seems to slow down. Most days, there is little traffic on the road (or on websites). Fewer products launched, fewer inbound emails, fewer things to check off a todo list. And yet, if someone in 1820 had lived at the pace we live in December 2019, she would probably have dropped dead from exhaustion. A store in New York that feels slow this time of year might be recording record traffic if it had the same turnout in Scottsdale or Tempe.

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Two sides of the internet

Seth Godin Blog

The architecture of the internet is about choice. That’s where the resilience comes from. Email can take one of a trillion paths to get from me to you. You have millions of pages to choose from when you want to read a blog post or learn a programming concept. On the other hand, the business of the internet is often about no choice. Investors seek organizations that create natural monopolies, businesses with such significant network effects that they can clear the board and create infinite

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Seeing clearly in 2020

Seth Godin Blog

I’ll only use that 2020 riff once. But it was on-point enough to have been worth waiting for ever since I got my first eye exam. For most of us, 2020 is going to be a turning point. Because it’s another chance to live tomorrow over again. A chance to reset, to decide what’s important and what’s worth working for. Not a New Year’s resolution, because resolve is often in short supply.

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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