David A Fields
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Remember all those little lessons and morals one of your parents or instructors would tell you? Clever maxims such as, “Honesty is the best policy,” and “Don’t count your chickens before they hatch,” and “No, an empty shoebox is not an acceptable diorama of The Invisible Man.” One of the classic structures for a pithy … Continued. The post 10 Simple Lessons for Your Consulting Firm appeared first on David A.
Consulting Success
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
How do you build a 7-figure consulting firm? Michael Zipursky presents Georges Chakar, the founder and CEO of LINK Advisory Group. The company implements strategies to foster commercial sustainability by transforming people and customers. Georges believes that rapid growth is not about strategy. Instead, it’s about the transformation that focuses on people.
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Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Company culture is often a bigger hurdle than any technical problem.
Tom Spencer
FEBRUARY 19, 2022
As work and non-work activities become increasingly blended, having a clear purpose and creating your own definition of work-life balance will be critical to a sustainable career. As most of us spend the majority of our time working, it’s important to consider where that time is spent, how to manage your tasks and energy, and how to ultimately find fulfilment. 1.
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Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
I try to notice trends in what my clients are facing. Last week presented a trend I couldn’t help but notice: Three of my clients were tired, frustrated, and struggling to please customers’ shifting and very challenging demands. My clients weren’t happy. Their team members weren’t happy. Their customers weren’t happy. No matter what […]. The post Create a Better Work Environment – Redeploy Your Talent appeared first on Weber Business Services, LLC.
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Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
The three-time founders share their hard-won lessons.
Johanna Rothman
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Small-World Network. Does your organization have an enterprise architect or Chief Product Person? We create these positions to check that the teams don't try to implement something “wrong.” However, a single person in this position creates bottlenecks and dependencies. (A committee might create even tighter bottlenecks.) Those dependencies slow the work.
CaseInterview.com
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
I’ve been following the news stories coming out of the Winter Olympics in Beijing these last few weeks. The stories I’ve found most intriguing have been around women’s figure skating. Kamila Valieva — an athlete favored for gold who skated for the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) — failed a drug test weeks ago, but the results were not known until after the Olympics began.
Tom Spencer
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
Congratulations! You received an interview with a consulting firm! Management consulting interviews generally have two types of assessments, behavioral and casing. This blog will help shed some light on what to expect and how to prepare for behavioral assessments. Behavioral interview questions help shed significant light on you as a candidate. Recruiters are assessing your background, your project experience, and your ability to fit into the company.
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.
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
Navigating privacy protection, new regulation, and consumer revolt.
Johanna Rothman
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Even when managers try to create cross-functional teams, the teams still have dependencies. Dependencies slow and make finishing the work more difficult. Too many teams have a built-in dependency creator—code review. When we take time to perform code review after we write the code (or the tests), we create dependencies between the people on the team.
Prudent Pedal
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
You made the decision to hire a Fractional CMO now what? More and more professional services firms are hiring fractional executives to bring strategic muscle and leadership to their firms. Managing partners making this strategic choice have clear visions about getting their firms to the next level of performance. The rationale for growth may differ […].
Tom Spencer
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
Whether it’s your first time on a new project, or a task you have done many times before, you will always have to balance the volume of work with the time available. If you are working in a new functional team serving unfamiliar clients in a new industry, then there will obviously be tasks that you have never encountered before. This will increase the amount of time needed to create a deliverable.
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Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
Four actions to take if you think you’re being judged unfairly.
On the Brink Podcast
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
Learn how to grow your business through your employees. What is a great performance coach? Meet Kathy D’Agostino. Kathy and I met through the Business Council of Westchester where I was giving a talk about my book, Rethink: Smashing The Myths of Women in Business. Like so many women, Kathy had a great corporate job until it wasn’t such a great corporate job.
Henry DeVries
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Facilitator of strategic retreats Scott Hamilton explains a better idea than "lead, follow, or get out of the way.".
The Source
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
If you skimmed the LinkedIn accounts of 100 CFOs, you'd not only have our sympathy, but you'd also notice an extremely consistent set of qualifications and career paths. Try to do the same with a sustainability leader and you'll find it much harder to pick out the same trends—in fact it's possible that, depending on the organisation, the most senior person tasked with sustainability isn't even in the C-suite.
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Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Marketers must claim the broader growth agenda, connecting the dots across data, digital, and the full customer journey.
Women in Consulting
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
By: Kathryn Gorges. Today we’re getting news about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the impact that’s having on the people on the ground, investor confidence, and global business. Get ready for the escalation of soundbites across the airwaves…. In that face of looming world challenges like this, keeping your own balance in your business and your life can be problematic.
Peter Stark
FEBRUARY 20, 2022
We are fond of saying, “Unless you’ve got followers, you’re probably not a leader.” Given the challenges of hiring talented employees in today’s highly competitive labor market, keeping your “followers” becomes essential to your success. Many managers truly believe that people stay with a company, or leave, based on their salary. This is not the case.
The Source
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Here’s a scenario we’ve all been in: You are on your way to dinner at a friend’s house, and you don’t want to turn up empty-handed. You intended to go to that gorgeous artisan chocolate shop near your office to pick up a little gift, but the day ran away with you, and now you’ve got to get something en route, otherwise you’ll be late. There’s an express store on the way that will have something that’s a sufficient treat, and you decide that a reasonable gift plus being on time is a good enough o
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Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Research finds that the tactic can help us overcome the fear of rejection.
Strategic Planning and Management Insights
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
SME Strategy is a strategy consulting company that specializes in aligning teams around their vision, mission, values, goals and action plans. Learn more about how we can help align your team with our strategic planning and implementation services.
Actionable
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
How do you increase the likelihood that your program participants are going to put the content from your session into practice after they leave the room? There are a number of components that come into play such as language and microreflections – those will be the subject of future posts – in this post we’ll […] The post Why an Accountability Buddy is your Program Participant’s Key to Success appeared first on Actionable.co.
Chad Barr
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Almost everyone had been waiting with bated breath yesterday for the arrival of 2/22/22 on the calendar. It reminded me of the ominous predictions that accompanied the turn of the century and the Y2K fears of total technological failure and worldwide shutdowns. What were people expecting yesterday on the palindrome date, the same read forward and backward and known as Twosday?
Speaker: Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader
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Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
Scrums and kanbans can’t help you if you’ve got a legacy culture that punishes vulnerability.
Strategic Planning and Management Insights
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
SME Strategy is a strategy consulting company that specializes in aligning teams around their vision, mission, values, goals and action plans. Learn more about how we can help align your team with our strategic planning and implementation services.
Actionable
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
How do you increase the likelihood that your program participants are going to put the content from your session into practice after they leave the room? There are a number of components that come into play such as language and microreflections – those will be the subject of future posts – in this post we’ll […]. The post Why an Accountability Buddy is your Program Participant’s Key to Success appeared first on Actionable.co.
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