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The Conundrum Facing Every Consulting Firm, Including Yours

David A Fields

Your consulting firm will periodically face a conundrum: should you look for more clients who want what your firm provides, or should you pivot your firm to provide what clients seem to want? Because you are analytical or creative or just like pretty colors, you have created a heat map of problems that prospects have … Continued. The post The Conundrum Facing Every Consulting Firm, Including Yours appeared first on David A.

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Is Consulting The Best Lifestyle Business? (The Lifestyle & Business Triangle)

Consulting Success

Do you want to build a lifestyle business? Consulting businesses can be the BEST type of lifestyle business. At Consulting Success®, we believe that your business should be in alignment with what success looks like to YOU. The last thing you want is to wake up one day and realize your business is a monster: Is Consulting The Best Lifestyle Business?

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Four Types of Superpowers for Consultants and Coaches

Consulting Matters

Are you ready to find your superpower? Even though you've taken personality tests and can easily list your strengths, you may still be unclear about what you do that makes you unique and intensely valuable to the people you want to serve. You might even know how your approach to consulting or coaching differs from others, but you can't isolate that point of differentiation or what drives it.

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How the Metaverse Could Change Work

Harvard Business

It promises to bring new levels of social connectedness, mobility, and collaboration to a world of virtual work.

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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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Driving Digital Transformation in Aerospace & Defense: Recent Technology Trends

Epicflow

How can aerospace and defense organizations respond to present-day uncertainty and manage constant change? One of the solutions is the application of emerging technologies that allow A&D organizations to dramatically transform the way they work and deliver value to their customers. What technologies do A&D companies leverage to adapt to the disruptions of the modern changing world?

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Leadership: finding your style

The Management Centre

Managing a team and maintaining – or even upgrading – their performance is a big, time consuming job, however experienced you are. Supervision sessions, coaching, advice, support all take up big chunks of your time – time away from your ‘own’ work. So the question is, how can you maximise the positive impact you have on individuals and your team as a whole?

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5 Principles of Purposeful Leadership

Harvard Business

Understanding why you’re in the room is more important than being the smartest one in it.

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Internal Strategy: Lessons Learned (1 of 2)

Tom Spencer

I initially started out my career in management consulting, exited to an internal strategy team in industry, and pivoted back to consulting. This two part article series will provide valuable perspective for those who are considering internal strategy teams as their next career option as I unveil my personal thoughts and experiences. In this article, Part 1, I will describe my experience of working in an internal strategy team and some of the main projects and activities I undertook.

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The Key To Diversity & Inclusion In Consulting With Michael Bach: Podcast #232

Consulting Success

Diversity and inclusion are two things that are becoming important in today’s business world. Reaching these goals often means changing things for the better. Michael Zipursky talks to Michael Bach, the head of CCDI Consulting, to find out more. Michael dives into the waters of consulting services in the areas of inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility.

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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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How and When to Use Timeboxes, Iterations, and Sprints to be Most Effective

Johanna Rothman

A colleague unfamiliar with lifecycles or agility asked, “How can we use sprints in this approach?” and pointed to a phase-gate approach with documentation deliverables after each phase. It looked just like the serial lifecycle in the image on the left. (That's because a finance person drew the lifecycle.). I said, “You can't use ‘sprints.

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Stop Framing Wellness Programs Around Self-Care

Harvard Business

Individual distress is a collective problem.

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7 Step Process to Create a Great LinkedIn Profile

Tom Spencer

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network with nearly 800 million members in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. It is also the oldest of the major social media networks, being launched in May 2003, nine months before Facebook. LinkedIn is a crucial tool for finding and posting jobs. Around 45 million people use the platform to search for jobs each week, and 4 people are hired every minute.

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Learn How Bold Women And Men Are Transforming The Place Of Women In Business

On the Brink

It's almost here! The 2nd annual Rethinking and Accelerating Diversity and Women’s Leadership in Business Forum, sponsored by the Women Business Collaborative and Rethinking Women. Please join us May 11th from 11:00am-2:30pm ET and bring along others who will love the conversation. These are amazing trailblazers who are transforming the place of women in business so we all can thrive, here in the US and around the world.

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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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What Being a 501(c)(3) Charitable Organization Means for Women In Consulting ?

Women in Consulting

By: Kathryn Gorges. Women In Consulting became a 501(c)(3) charitable organization late in 2020, as we announced at that time. But what does that mean for us? TL;DR : This means we serve the larger community of independent consultants with education, networking, and other programs. And our members help make that happen while also getting greater access and other benefits of belonging and contributing to the organization.

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8 Reasons Why Health Care Providers Should Offer Telehealth Visits - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS

Harvard Business

Sponsor content from Siemens Healthineers.

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How to Communicate More Successfully with your Manager

Tom Spencer

Your manager is arguably one of the most important people you will engage with during a summer internship. Your manager may be assigning deliverables, connecting you with colleagues, and answering your questions. Regardless of what company or industry you work in, you will most likely have one-on-one meetings with your manager. The cadence of which could be once a week, multiple days a week, or even every day.

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Virtual Organizations, Hybrid Organizations, And The Most Amazing Workplaces For Tomorrow?

On the Brink

For the past 24 months, we have been operating in a virtual environment for the most part. We have all had experiences trying to work this way, good, bad or indifferent. A recent NY Times article, " A Two-Year 50-Million-Person Experiment in Changing How We Work " talks about some of the issues associated with this strange new environment. We are still sorting out the impact of a hybrid workplace.

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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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309: Kim Graham Lee—How To Build A Culture Where Men And Women Truly Support Each Other

On the Brink Podcast

Hear how to build a culture that values men and women. T here are times when you are fortunate to meet exceptional women. Kim Graham Lee is one wonderful woman who is moving in a very important direction — how to build allyship for men and women. Kim is the CEO of Integrating Women Leaders (IWL) which is joining with Women Business Collaborative , of which I am a member, to conduct the first nationally-focused study to measure the practice of allyship with women in corporate America today.

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Preparing for Your Company’s First Meeting with a Startup Collaborator

Harvard Business

Three priorities to help lay the groundwork for success.

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Tips to Streamline Your ERP Project Cutover

PM Alliance

The final weeks of an ERP implementation can introduce a lot of stress for project teams and stakeholders. One recurring challenge our project management consultants hear from organizations seeking to improve their project planning and execution strategy is that the list of last-minute activities seems to snowball, leaving too many tasks to complete in a very short amount of time.

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Microsoft Teams makes the heart grow fonder

The Source

They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but that didn’t seem to be the case for consultants in the depths of the COVID pandemic. In late 2020, one year on from its first outbreak in Wuhan, clients were less positive than before about what it’s like to work with consulting firms: Just 65% spoke positively about a range of attributes that we ask about.

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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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Technology Gets Old One Day at a Time: Broken Blog Feeds and What You Missed

Johanna Rothman

Technology gets old. While we know that intellectually, we might not know it as it pertains to us. Here's a story about how technology changes one day at a time and everything is okay—until it's not. (Don't want the long sad story? Go to Here's What You Missed.). A Short History of My Site. I started my site back in 1995. I hand-crafted the HTML, possibly in PageMill or whatever we used for our sites back then.

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The “Great Resignation” Is a Misnomer

Harvard Business

People aren’t just quitting their jobs — they’re aspiring to new ways of life.

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Meeting-free days

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: Great research from the University of Reading on the effect of meeting-free days on. The post Meeting-free days appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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Funny Thing

Alan Weiss

Creating the correct expectations saves a lot of grief farther down the road. Sometimes people approach me for coaching telling me they want to make a million dollars their first year in business, or they want to close a deal in very client meeting, or they want to major publisher to pick up their first book in the next 90 days. I’m all for aggressive initiatives, but also for pragmatism.

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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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The Leadership Ropes Course: Inspiring the Leap

Makarios Consulting

Leadership is a lot like a ropes course – you are confronted with challenge after challenge, each one testing your skills and giving you an opportunity for personal development and team growth. In this series, we are looking at elements of “The Leadership Ropes Course” that all leaders need to face – and master! Jumping off a platform to catch a trapeze and swing to another platform isn’t easy … especially when the platforms and trapeze in question are more than twenty feet off the ground.

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Onboarding Can Make or Break a New Hire’s Experience

Harvard Business

Implementing a formal program could boost retention by up to 50%.

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Can I Buy a Vowel?

Chad Barr

I’ve been watching on Facebook the daily posted scores of my friends who play “Wordle” and I must admit I was curious as to what this craze was all about. But I’ve got my own pickleball craze, so I let the hankering pass only to discover that Laurel has been secretly admiring those who post quick solutions to those once daily puzzles.

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