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Employee Engagement is Unethical

Consulting Matters

When I met with three aspiring consultants who are very passionate about parlaying their experience to help companies create healthy work environments and engaged employees. They almost fell out their chairs when I told them that I am starting to see that employee engagement is actually unethical. What I DON'T mean when I say this is that companies should not strive to have work environments free from unethical business practices and abusive and inconsiderate leaders who make their employees liv

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Issue Trees Are Dead- In Virtual Case Interviews

Management Consulted

Issue trees are often used by consultants to help break down large or complex business issues into smaller, more manageable pieces. From there, those pieces can be put into a plan to bring about a solution to the overall problem.… Read Article. The post Issue Trees Are Dead- In Virtual Case Interviews appeared first on Management Consulted.

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Love your stakeholders: four strategies to handle your stakeholders

The Management Centre

It is a principle universally acknowledged that projects often fail because of people. If you can manage your stakeholders, you have a much greater chance of success. The life of a project manager is a tricky one. A constant balancing act – trying to keep your project on track, to time, to budget, with excellent deliverables; whilst also trying to keep other people happy.

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Why (and How) Your Consulting Firm Should Be Funny

David A Fields

Do you regularly make your clients and prospects laugh? On purpose, I mean. There’s good reason to spill humor all over your consulting firm’s work. My team’s extensive, proprietary research among consulting firm leaders suggests you’ve been hilarious. Not recently, of course, but before you led a consulting firm. Or, perhaps, before you had teenagers. … Continued.

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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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Evidence-Based Coaching: Creating Systems To Exceed Your Goals With Anne Sugar: Podcast #172

Consulting Success

Leaving a corporate job and taking the leap of faith to be on your own can be both scary and exciting. Anne Sugar definitely went through all those emotions when she made the decision to leave the corporate world to start her own coaching and consulting firm, advising top leaders at companies including TripAdvisor, GM, Evidence-Based Coaching: Creating Systems To Exceed Your Goals With Anne Sugar: Podcast #172 is a post from: Consulting Success.

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Training Your Team in Bite-Sized Chunks Helps Retention – Here’s Why It Works So Well

Clarity Consultants

For many employees, spending hours on end reviewing massive training modules isn’t an effective way to learn. Fatigue can set in surprisingly quickly, causing them to lose focus and struggle with knowledge retention. Additionally, since they may not put everything they learned to work right away, retention can tumble even further. Luckily, there is a better way.

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How to Be Funny at Work

Harvard Business

Seriously.

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Five Steps to Designing a High-Impact Executive Team Meeting Agenda

Consulting Matters

At some point all consultants will be on the hook to lead a senior team meeting. Meetings get such a bad rap now and are perceived as a waste of time either because they lack purpose, focus or exceptional facilitator who is able to draw together and synthesize disparate perspectives. A key way that you can establish your credibility as a consultant and offer tremendous client value is through the process you use to get a senior team "singing off the same song sheet.".

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GameStop, Robinhood, & Reddit

CaseInterview.com

In US business news, the story of the week is day traders on the Robinhood stock trading app organizing stock trades via Reddit, a social media platform, to buy shares in the public company GameStop, all to make money while taking down Wall Street billionaires and their hedge funds. The above sentence is probably the longest sentence I’ve ever written in my professional career.

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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 Contrarian’s Perspective on Agile Mindset, Behaviors, Culture

Johanna Rothman

We often hear that agile is a mindset. That we need to change our thinking to use agility. Is that correct? That you need to change how you think first, before anything else? I can think I change my mindset all day long. However, I don't change until I change my actions, my behaviors. That's because a mindset is your intention, not what you do. Behaviors are what we do.

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How to Encourage Employees to Speak Up When They See Wrongdoing

Harvard Business

Traditional compliance tools aren’t enough. Behavioral science can help.

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Make your team meetings fun again!

The Management Centre

Fun activities to include in your online team meetings. We all know how enjoyable it is when we work within a close and supportive team. A team where people know and trust each other, where energy is high and the team solves problems together, spots opportunities together and creates new approaches together. Over the last year, we have heard from lots of people working remotely, that the physical distance is making it harder for their teams to feel as connected, or to welcome in new members of t

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Strategic Planning Facilitation for Nonprofits

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

After a turbulent 2020, filled with extensive change, strategic planning is more important than ever - especially for non-profit and mission-based organizations. While your WHY (your reason for being) will remain steady, your HOW may have to pivot to address macro trends, both globally and locally, as well as shifting workplace dynamics.

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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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3 Types of Consulting Work

Tom Spencer

Consulting is an exciting career opportunity that offers graduates the chance to use their critical thinking skills, creativity, and past knowledge. It is demanding, but immensely rewarding. When looking at consulting as a potential career, it is worth exploring the specific types of consulting available. While working as a consultant means that you will be hired to help a company improve its current situation and solve challenging problems, there are specializations that could appeal to you.

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Are Your Diversity Efforts Othering Underrepresented Groups?

Harvard Business

The way you talk about inclusion could end up excluding people.

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Safe Space #5 – I don’t love my job anymore

The Management Centre

Welcome to the Safe Space – where managers can share their issues, and gain advice from top learning & development consultants. Here at =mc we encourage every participant we meet on our programmes to get in touch if they have specific issues they want to follow up on. From this we hear some common problems, issues, challenges, and worries. In this regular feature we share some of those challenges, and our advice, for dealing with them.

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4 Reasons Why Clear Company Goals are Crucial in the COVID Era

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

If you want to successfully grow your business, then it’s essential to set clear goals for your company. Setting goals provides your organization with a sense of structure and purpose, and this helps to create a stable workplace for your employees. With the COVID-19 pandemic heightening uncertainty in all areas of life, goal-setting is now more important than ever.

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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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Pros and Cons of a Career in Consulting

Tom Spencer

One of the most mentioned career paths after graduating from Harvard is consulting. It is one of the few industries, apart from investment banking, that is a stereotype for every graduating class, and people start preparing for it from freshman year through joining multiple consulting clubs on campus. But what is it about consulting that gives it such a great appeal to students coming from every possible field of study, and what causes other students to pursue different career paths?

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Why Is It So Hard to Become a Data-Driven Company?

Harvard Business

A survey of Fortune 1000 executives sheds light on the cultural barriers to change.

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252: Liz Musch—What Can A Successful Woman Teach Other Women? How To Succeed

On the Brink Podcast

Hear what a big difference one woman can make! I had the pleasure of meeting Liz Musch on a Women’s Business Collaborative event. She was moderating a panel of amazing women who are deeply involved in helping women succeed across the globe — India, Southeast Asia, Africa, everywhere. As I listened to her speak, I was struck by the depth of her devotion to helping women, leveraging her own success well beyond what any career position might have enabled her to do.

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GameStop, Robinhood, & Reddit

CaseInterview.com

In U.S. business news, the story of the week is day traders on the Robinhood stock trading app organizing stock trades via Reddit, a social media platform, to buy shares in the public company GameStop, all to make money while taking down Wall Street billionaires and their hedge funds. The above sentence is probably the longest sentence I’ve ever written in my professional career.

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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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Want to Work with Me to Build Your Consulting Practice?

Johanna Rothman

Back in January 2020, I led a Hudson Bay Start to create/build a consulting practice. I'm happy to say it was a success. Not because everyone became a consultant. However, the people who chose to consult found their ways to succeed. And, even more importantly, some people decided not to consult yet. Those folks continue to prepare for their eventual consulting careers.

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Don’t Underestimate the Power of a Walk

Harvard Business

Breaking up your day by going outside can boost your mood, brainpower, and creativity.

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Zen and The Art of Diversity and Inclusion: Lessons Learned from the Appalachian Trail

Brimstone Consulting

About a hundred years ago, I hiked the Appalachian Trail (AT) from Springer Mountain in Georgia, to Mt. Katahdin in Maine. I finished those 2,190 miles in 5 and ½ months. As one of the first 100 or so women to earn the title of ‘thru-hiker,’ I was about as full of myself as someone who attends a prestigious college, and never quite gets over it. At parties, I would endeavor to casually slip my AT merit badge into the conversation, as subtle as a brick through a window.

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Putting your best foot forward – how to approach summer jobs

Tom Spencer

For any student aspiring to a professional career, whether it be in management consulting or otherwise, the value of summer employment is often hugely underestimated. The benefits of a good summer job extend greatly beyond simply alleviating the financial pressures involved with studying. This article explains how taking the right approach to summer employment will benefit you in the early stages of your career.

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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

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Enjoy an Agile Coffee About Modern Management

Johanna Rothman

I had a great time on the Agile Coffee podcast, 75. Managing with Coffee. We had a great time and a wide-ranging conversation. We spoke about a variety of issues that managers, teams, and people encounter, such as: Culture and how that plays out at all levels. How the reward system might offer perverse incentives. Why I don't always subscribe to the idea of intent-based leadership.

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Facebook’s Misleading Campaign Against Apple’s Privacy Policy

Harvard Business

It claims Apple’s plan to give users more control over their data will harm small businesses. But the facts don’t add up.

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A Good Manager Brings Out the Best in People

Rick Conlow

A good manager brings out the best in people. The classic example of the leader that “kicks butt and takes names” while caustically motivating the team is out of date. It does not work. It never did. As Colin Powell describes in the above quote, leaders without employee problems are failures. You see, employees are not assets that you manipulate or abuse through strategic analysis or business intelligence.