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10 Tips for Dynamite Meetings with Your Consulting Clients

David A Fields

Your clients send your consulting firm checks with plenty of digits. In return, you’re likely to conduct at least one meeting during which you present findings, results and/or recommendations.

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Desperately Seeking Workers

Strategy+Business

With roughly equal numbers of open jobs and unemployed people, companies are scrapping their talent plans and looking for workers wherever they can find them.

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Case Interview: Beyond Common Frameworks

Tom Spencer

Sometimes interviewees find it hard to differentiate themselves by simply using common frameworks. The problem with common frameworks is that they are too board to allow you to give an insightful synthesis. And as more and more candidates start to use them frequently, it is harder to impress the interviewers. Hence, I would like to give you two secret models to help you delight your interviewers.

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Be An Active Listener While Consulting with Noelle Mykolenko: Podcast #39

Consulting Success

When you put yourself in your client’s shoes, you’ll understand that the resistance to change comes from their fear of the unknown. They have attached themselves to practices that have been serving them well in the past but isn’t working for them in the present. She explains that this situation is very common that it has become the norm rather than the exception.

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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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Institute of Management Consultants Announces New Chair and Directors of the Board

IMC USA

Fort Lauderdale, Florida. — June 5, 2018 — The Institute of Management Consultants USA (IMC USA, www.imcusa.org ) announces the election of Juan A. Negroni as Chair of IMC USA and Michael Egan Ph.D. CMC and Kevin Berchelmann CMC as new Directors on the Board. Mr. Negroni is a resident of Weston, Connecticut, and is the first Cuban-born Chair in IMC’s 50-year history.

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IoT Disruptions in 3 Industries and What You Can Learn From Them

Tom Spencer

The massive benefits seen in Australia from the development of digital technology include increased living standards, shrinking distances through telecommunications, improved efficiency for businesses and government, as well as a larger workforce. The digital era is here to stay and the Internet of Things (IoT) will play a major role in driving future economic growth.

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5 Common Complaints About Meetings and What to Do About Them

Harvard Business

Martin Poole/Getty Images. We all complain about meetings. We have too many. They’re a waste of time. Nothing gets done. These complaints often have merit, but they are so broad that they’re difficult to argue with and harder to address. There are specific complaints that can be tackled, however. When I ask people in the workshops I lead what they most want help with, five issues consistently come up: One or two people dominate the conversation and no one does anything about it.

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How To Manage Controversial Issues

Melissa Agnes

Controversies are amongst the most difficult types of negative events to manage effectively. Why? Because they are emotionally charged situations that automatically segregate your audience. Not to mention that, due to their emotional relatability, they present a high-risk for fast escalation and virality. Furthermore, our current societal climate-with the Me Too and Time’s Up movements, our collective stance against racial discrimination, and more-controversial issues are an increasing hig

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Approaching Diversity with the Brain in Mind

Strategy+Business

Unconscious biases occur as a result of brain processes that aren't consciously accessible, so it's only natural that talking and thinking about them doesn't really change anything. Here's what does.

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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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Cold Emailing 101

Tom Spencer

This is part 2 of my posts on cold emailing. If you have not read part 1, check out “ How I used cold emailing to land an internship in Mongolia ”. By the end of this post you should understand three things: How to find professionals to contact. How to write a strong cold email. How to keep track of all your emails and get the most out of each one. Typically, a successful cold email is one that gets you on a call or a coffee chat with the professional you are targeting.

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Feel Busy All the Time? There’s an Upside to That.

Harvard Business

bs photo/Getty Images. Imagine yourself at a restaurant, trying to decide between two desserts: a chocolate cake and a fruit bowl. You’ve been trying to eat healthier, but the cake just sounds so tasty… What do you do? As it turns out, your decision is likely to be influenced by how busy you perceive yourself to be. Busyness has previously been studied through the lens of time pressure.

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Your Fault vs. Your Responsibility

CaseInterview.com

I teach the people I mentor that leadership means accepting responsibility for things that aren’t your fault. The individual contributor that stays in that role for an entire career does what is asked, but no more. If something goes wrong, she says, "I didn’t make a mistake. You can’t blame me for that one. That’s not my job.". The aspiring leader realizes a problem may not be her fault, but will often make it her responsibility to fix it.

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Throat clearing isn't necessary

Seth Godin Blog

Begin in the middle. The first paragraph, where you lay out what's about to happen. The half-apology you use to preface your comments at the meeting. The email that takes a paragraph or two to get to the point. You can skip those. Throat clearing is a good way to make sure that people are looking at you. And an even better way to give yourself time to collect your thoughts, to indulge your fears or to get yourself warmed up.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Action Plan Partial Sabbatical Update

The Fearless Marketer

Last month I announced that I was taking a “Partial Sabbatical” from working with new clients or conducting programs. What I’m attempting is to take enough of a step back to determine what I want to do with my business for the rest of my life. That might be five more years of work, or 25, I don’t know. But I do know I want it to be fun for me and valuable for my clients.

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A Survey of 1,700 Companies Reveals Common B2B Pricing Mistakes

Harvard Business

Glasshouse Images/Getty Images. Poor pricing practices are insidious — they damage a company’s economics but can go unnoticed for years. Consider the case of a major industrial goods manufacturer that was struggling with low profit margins, relative both to competitors and to its own historical performance. It traced much of the cause to a mismatch between its sales incentives and pricing strategy.

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Frequent Releasing Can Lead to Short and Frequent Planning

Johanna Rothman

Agile approaches can help a team release more often. When a team releases more often, the product people can replan the product roadmaps. The project portfolio people can replan the project portfolio. Not every team releases often enough to take advantage of replanning small and often. Everyone falls prey to “too much” thinking. The product people don’t create MVEs or MVPs —they need the entire feature set.

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Throat clearing isn’t necessary

Seth Godin Blog

Begin in the middle. The first paragraph, where you lay out what's about to happen. The half-apology you use to preface your comments at the meeting. The email that takes a paragraph or two to get to the point… You can skip those. Throat clearing is a good way to make sure that people are looking at you. And an even better way to give yourself time to collect your thoughts, to indulge your fears or to get yourself warmed up.

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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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How to Become a Master of Disaster

Strategy+Business

The more complex and tightly coupled the system, say Meltdown authors Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik, the more urgent the need to manage the risk of disaster.

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Become a More Productive Learner

Harvard Business

Bhandharangsri/Getty Images. Today we consume five times more information every day than we did in 1986, an incredible amount that’s equivalent to a 174 newspapers…a day. That probably includes a lot of Instagram posts, but it’s not only social media. The corporate e-learning space has grown by nine times over the last 16 years , such that almost 80% of U.S. companies offer online training for their employees, making more information accessible to them than ever before.

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Stop Putting it Off

Chad Barr

From Merriam-Webster: To procrastinate is to go against the old saying, “Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.” Appropriately, the word procrastinate has the Latin word cras, meaning “tomorrow,” tucked inside it, because when you procrastinate you often are putting something off until the next day…… Consider this scenario: “This is a perfect time to get some work done.” (Your brain)…”Nope.

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Misunderstanding the free market

Seth Godin Blog

Ice skating requires two things: smooth ice and gravity. Without a reliable foundation, you can't move forward. And without the constraints and boundaries put on us by gravity, you can't move at all. The free market, the holy grail of some capitalists, is similar. In a completely unbounded environment, markets can't develop, investments won't get made, nothing moves forward.

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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 to choose between near-shoring, offshoring, outsourcing,

Consulthon

Hi All, a client - international company wants to find a new, better and more efficient way of delivering improved service solutions for its clients. Till now the company was using a Service solut.

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How Johnson & Johnson and American Express Are Developing Young Leaders

Harvard Business

Hero Images/Getty Images. Over the next decade, approximately 10,000 Baby Boomers will retire every day. Young leaders will have substantial opportunity to climb the corporate ladder — by 2030 , millennials alone will comprise three out of every four individuals in the U.S. workforce — and companies will increasingly grapple with how to accelerate the development of those individuals for leadership positions.

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Depth Not Dependency

Martinka Consulting

At the start of the 2018 baseball season you might not have believed it when you saw a record number of games snowed out across the Midwest. The Seattle Mariners got off to a decent start is and that’s pretty good when you consider four starters (all proven good hitters) were each on the disabled list for 10 days or more. They’re winning, and hitting well, because they’re lineup has depth.

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Rethinking graduation (off topic)

Seth Godin Blog

It's that time of year again. If you hear "Pomp & Circumstance" playing, you know you're in the right place, and you also know you're about to witness a pre-electrification (never mind pre-digital) event. Who's it for? What's it for? I fear that tradition has gotten in the way of design thinking. When we ask those two questions, great opportunities arrive.

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TOOLS and METHODOLOGIES for developing DECISION SUPPORT PACKAGES

This White Paper targets opportunities for Management to develop proficiency in the Decision Framing and Analyses element of input to Decision, & Risk Analyses for Major Project Funding Decisions.