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The Benefits of Being Part of Your School’s Consulting Club

Tom Spencer

If you are a current student and are interested in consulting, chances are you are familiar with your school’s consulting club. Maybe you’ve attended a competition hosted by them, or perhaps you’ve utilized resources made available by them – no matter how you’ve interacted with the club, it’s a valuable resource for aspiring consultants to have. However, beyond just interacting with the club as a general member, I believe that being an executive of the club can be a very fulfilling and valuable

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5 Reasons Your Employees Don’t Understand Your Company’s Vision

Harvard Business

They can’t follow a north star they can’t see.

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How Your Consulting Firm Can Benefit from My Experiment with Outreach

David A Fields

There are people you’ve not talked with in years, and it’s a shame. They’re good people, you enjoyed your relationship with them, plus, reconnecting could help generate business for your consulting firm. But if you’ve been out of touch for so long, is it really possible to renew the relationship? And if so, how, and … Continued. The post How Your Consulting Firm Can Benefit from My Experiment with Outreach appeared first on David A.

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Creating A Harmonious Work-Life Integration in Your Consulting Business with Michele Benton: Podcast #202

Consulting Success

A business owner’s success is typically measured by their revenue growth, the number of followers, and overall reputation. However, one important element is usually ignored: a proper work-life balance. Michael Zipursky delves into this topic with Michele Benton, President of lime, LLC. She explains how rejecting the devoted worker mindset allows her to adjust her.

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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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Some Employees Are Moving but Keeping Their Remote Jobs. How Do Train Them?

Clarity Consultants

During the pandemic, many professionals were suddenly working from home. As time passed, a significant number of employees discovered that there were at least as productive as they were in the office while also capturing improved work-life balance. In turn, they became open to substantial changes in their lives, ultimately deciding to move away from their employer’s offices.

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How to Create a "What I Do" Statement That Impresses Potential Clients [On-Air Coaching with J. Kyle Howard]

Consulting Matters

Have you switched up your career from leadership to consulting and coaching? Are you wondering how to establish your credibility with potential clients, especially when you're just starting? Do you wish you had a ready response to the "What do you?" question that is engaging and compelling? In this on-air coaching session with my client J. Kyle Howard, you'll see how to answer "What do you do?

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Why sustainability isn’t the next digital transformation

The Source

Like a lot of people, I’ve had a great deal of time over various periods of lockdown and quarantine to listen to podcasts. One of my personal favourites has been Scriptnotes —a show that covers the inside secrets of Hollywood and the screenwriting profession. On a recent episode, the show’s hosts—both seasoned industry veterans—were discussing the fact that, if you want to sell a script, the most effective thing you can do is compare it to films that have already been enormously successful; you

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Some Employees Are Moving but Keeping Their Remote Jobs. How To Train Them?

Clarity Consultants

During the pandemic, many professionals were suddenly working from home. As time passed, a significant number of employees discovered that they were at least as productive as they were in the office while also capturing improved work-life balance. In turn, they became open to substantial changes in their lives, ultimately deciding to move away from their employer’s offices.

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How Midsize Companies Can Compete in AI

Harvard Business

Joint AI ventures can help them keep up with giants and startups alike.

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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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Defining Your Leadership Legacy

Rick Conlow

Have you ever thought about your leadership legacy? In other posts, we discussed an important difference between good bosses and bad bosses. Good bosses believe right now is the right time to act – bad bosses wait for the “right” opportunity. Good bosses serve. Bad bosses want to be served. A Leadership Legacy. This got me thinking about a leader’s legacy.

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Maintenance

CaseInterview.com

I’ve been thinking a lot about the concept of maintenance. A mechanic friend of mine said that if you follow your car’s official maintenance schedule (and especially change your oil on time), your car will last 200,000+ miles (~320,000 km). When buying or owning a home, one of the things I’ve learned is that major home repairs often start off as small home repairs that are needed but go ignored.

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Conversations Get Closes

Jerry Fletcher

“I put all this time and money into SEO and I’m still not getting any new business!”. It is not an unfamiliar complaint. It is the lament of every consultant and entrepreneur that provides a service at the point when they have decided to generate all their business on-line. Lately because of Covid I hear it more frequently because SEO is like putting a band aid on a massive chest wound.

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Why AI Will Never Replace Managers

Harvard Business

When it comes to reframing problems and finding surprising solutions, humans are still light-years ahead of machines.

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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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How to Understand Key Metrics in a New Industry

Tom Spencer

Numbers are at the foundation of understanding both science and business. Both fields rely on translating real world events into data points which are then used to answer questions and generate insights. Coming from a health and science background I am familiar with looking at health data and being able to gain insights to make decisions. However, as I transitioned into the business side of science, I came across a new set of numbers and vocabulary to describe these numbers that were unfamiliar

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Strengths Multiplied

CaseInterview.com

When you work in any endeavor, your strengths accelerate the achievement of your goals while your weaknesses hold you back. This is what it means to be human. However, when you work effectively (keyword here is “effectively”) in collaboration with others, it is the sum total of your collective strengths that’s at play. When someone else on the team possesses strength in your weak area, your individual weakness no longer holds back the progress for you or your team.

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Q4 2021 Writing Workshop (Free Your Inner Writer) Open for Registration

Johanna Rothman

Thinking about bringing your writing skills to the next level? Want to write and finish ? Enroll in my Writing Workshop 1: Free Your Inner Writer & Sell Your Nonfiction Ideas. You'll learn to build your writing system and habit. Please join me. (Workshop details and testimonials on the writing worksho p page.). I hope you join the other writers and me.

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Research: How to Position a Luxury Brand as Sustainable

Harvard Business

Highlight your company’s commitment to craftsmanship.

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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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The Chimera of Consulting: Government and Public Sector Advising

Tom Spencer

Discussion on management consultancy often reduces the clientele of strategy firms to multinational corporations. Although this might largely be the case, such a simplistic view ignores a major field of consulting: governmental and public sector advisory services. MBB strategy firms and the Big 4 professional services companies all have departments specifically designated for public policy and chartable organizations, which is by no means a coincidence.

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Know Your Weaknesses

CaseInterview.com

When you get your first job, you’re hired based on your strengths. To get promoted, you need to be highly self-aware of your weaknesses and compensate for them through who you hire and collaborate with. When I look at the most successful of my clients over the decades, one thing has really stood out. They all stink at something. The key is that they know what they stink at and hire or partner with people who can help.

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Report: The Future of the Best Place to Work

Brimstone Consulting

2021 Report: The Future of the Best Place to Work. Over the past eighteen months, people have been re-evaluating their priorities and reassessing their relationship with their jobs. Freedom and personal control now feel more vital, gaining mindshare that might previously have gone toward money, perks, or titles. Brimstone and our partners at Entromy conducted a survey of workers from around the world to learn about the expectations people have for organizations and for the work environment and u

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Some Questions Benefit from Group Discussion. Others Don’t.

Harvard Business

Research suggests the wisdom of the crowds falls short when it comes to yes-or-no questions.

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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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Giving clients what they want

The Source

Unlike lots of well-loved but now obsolete features of the early 2000s (Blockbuster Video, classified ads in the newspaper, and floppy disks, anyone?), we at Source are proud to have created something in the noughties that has aged beautifully. We are referring, of course, to our thought leadership ratings methodology—the criteria we use to assess the quality of a piece of thought leadership.

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282: Richard Medcalf—How To Amplify Your Story To Achieve Great Results

On the Brink Podcast

Hear how to make time for strategic thinking and strategic growth. Richard Medcalf describes himself as "what you get if you were to put a McKinsey consultant, a slightly unorthodox pastor and an entrepreneur into a blender." Richard is an executive coach and leadership consultant to CEOs and their leadership teams. What we hope you'll take away from our discussion is how to build your own career and amplify your story.

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What’s Your Most Valuable Commodity?

The Fearless Marketer

As a self-employed professional, what is the most valuable commodity that your clients pay you for? Is it your experience, your ideas, your insights, your expertise, or your time? Well, yes, but those are actually the building blocks of your most valuable commodity. Conversations. Your clients pay you for conversations. As a consultant, coach, trainer, or speaker, it’s your conversations that contain the most value.

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Let’s Redefine “Productivity” for the Hybrid Era

Harvard Business

It’s time to expand the definition to include well-being, social connection, and collaboration.

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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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How Consulting Firms Should Approach Sustainability

Management and IT Consulting

Implementing sustainability practices and taking initiative on evaluating impact is becoming a common trend across consulting firms. Learn how to build out a sustainability framework for your firm, that can help expand into new markets, attract talent, avoid costs, and increase your bottom line.

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Leadership from Zero to 30,000 Feet

Makarios Consulting

You’ve likely seen news stories of violence in the skies as passengers become unruly, enraged, and abusive. Well, I (Tim) was on a flight at the end of August that had all the makings of major passenger disgruntlement, to put it mildly. But because of the great leadership of our captain, the flight didn’t make it into the headlines. Our flight was heading into Chicago when the captain announced that a front was moving in and he had been instructed to go into a holding pattern above the O’Hare In

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Time to Rejuvenate Our Hearts and Minds

Chad Barr

Yesterday ushered in the Jewish New Year 5782. For the Bible scholars out there, you are aware that the history is colorful if not bordering on the miraculous. We’re all living through this pandemic, and we find ourselves observing this most sacred of days once again via zoom, livestream and Facebook live. We had prepared for a return to normalcy to celebrate within our communities and families.

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