David A Fields
JULY 31, 2018
Consulting can sometimes feel like an unequal, parent-child type relationship. They set rules. They control your payments. They tell you to turn your music down. But the relationship isn’t as unequal as it seems. In fact, it needn’t be unequal at all.
MBO Partners
JULY 31, 2018
What soft skills are, why they are important, and how you can improve yours.
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Markovitz Consulting
AUGUST 2, 2018
It’s time to admit that one of my consulting approaches has failed. I’m a huge fan of Paul Akers’ 2 Second Lean philosophy. It’s simple, easy to understand, and has an intrinsic appeal: “fix what bugs you.” “Figure out how to do your job two seconds faster each day.” Who wouldn’t sign on to a lean program that promotes that mindset? So off I went to my clients, with Paul’s videos embedded in my PowerPoint presentation, ready to show them how 2 Second Lean is the answer to their productivity prob
Consulting Success
AUGUST 2, 2018
Michael was recently featured on The Daily Grind Podcast, which you can listen to here: The Daily Grind with Michael Zipursky One of the biggest challenges early on in my career was working in Japan. I was in my early 20s, fresh out of college, wasn’t fluent in Japanese — yet I was working and living among this culture that was so different from my own.
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Clarity Consultants
AUGUST 2, 2018
An effective eLearning program provides the flexibility and the power to train your employees and keep them around for the long term. Here's how. The post Employee Retention Series: How Does Good Training Benefit Your Employees? appeared first on Clarity Consultants - Learning and Development.
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Tom Spencer
JULY 28, 2018
Based on a recent study by Global Industry Analysts , the global market for wearable medical devices is projected to eclipse $4.5 billion by 2020. 1 In the United States, the predominant market in this space, it is estimated that roughly 20% of Americans currently own a wearable fitness device. 2 As questions on how to rein in increasing healthcare costs continue to mount, and politicians focus on passing legislation and targeting the pharmaceutical industry, a possible solution may be wearable
Consulting Success
JULY 30, 2018
Anytime you’re solving a business problem or anytime you’re offering a service, one of the best ways to figure out what you should be offering is to find out what the market wants and figure out what problems the buyer is having and focusing on that. Open innovation catalyst Scott Wagers has been trying to address that question over the course of his career.
The Fearless Marketer
JULY 30, 2018
Is it possible to use personalized emails that get a great response, and ultimately, new clients, from those in your network? I’m not talking about mass direct emails, but sending individual emails to people in one’s network, LinkedIn connections, past clients, etc. for the purpose of generating enough interest to get a conversation with that person.
Harvard Business
AUGUST 1, 2018
Emma Innocenti/Getty Images. Um. Ah. So. You Know. Like. Right? Well. When we find ourselves rattled while speaking — whether we’re nervous, distracted, or at a loss for what comes next — it’s easy to lean on filler words. These may give us a moment to collect our thoughts before we press on, and in some cases, they may be useful indicators that the audience should pay special attention to what comes next.
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Tom Spencer
JULY 28, 2018
The healthcare industry generates a large amount of data. The retention of this data is driven by the need to meet intricate compliance and regulatory requirements. 1 Electronic health record (EHR) data is at times so massive that it can be difficult to manage with the usual data management tools that hospitals and physicians currently use. 2 According to a study by the Institute for Health Technology Transformation, the U.S. healthcare system held over 150 exabytes of data back in 2012, and w
Strategy+Business
AUGUST 2, 2018
It is human nature to distrust what we don't understand, and much about AI may not be completely clear. For further insights, read "The Future of Artificial Intelligence Depends on Trust.
Chad Barr
AUGUST 1, 2018
I have repeatedly said that as thought leaders and experts in our fields, we should be quoting ourselves, and often. In January 2013, I committed to post weekly newsletters and over five years later, without missing a week, I’ve accomplished that including today’s, 291st posting. Last July 2017, I pledged to publish my daily quotes , five days a week, and I am proud to say that exactly a year later I just wrote and posted number 255!
Harvard Business
AUGUST 3, 2018
Walker and Walker/Getty Images. Innovation is famously difficult — many projects end up losing money, frustrating employees, and going nowhere. And yet corporations and governments spend billions of dollars annually pursuing innovation. This huge spending would generate more value for businesses and societies if the innovation success rate were just a little higher.
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The Fearless Marketer
JULY 30, 2018
Is it possible to use personalized emails that get a great response, and ultimately, new clients, from those in your network? I’m not talking about mass direct emails, but sending individual emails to people in one’s network, LinkedIn connections, past clients, etc. for the purpose of generating enough interest to get a conversation with that person.
Strategy+Business
JULY 30, 2018
As more and more companies in a range of industries adopt machine learning and more advanced AI algorithms, the ability to provide understandable explanations for different stakeholders becomes critical. If people don't know why an AI system made a decision, they may not trust the outcome.
Johanna Rothman
AUGUST 1, 2018
You might remember I’m working on a book with Mark Kilby. It’s From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver. We just published a new version of the book. We rearranged the entire book. In this version, we added a chapter called “Avoid Chaos with Insufficient Hours of Overlap.” That one chapter might be all you need to create a successful distributed agile team.
Harvard Business
JULY 31, 2018
Kenny Williamson/Getty Images. No organization wants to burn out its employees. And yet, according to new research, companies’ efforts to prevent prolonged stress among their staffs are falling short. When Deloitte recently surveyed 1,000 full-time employees in the United States, we found that that 77% had experienced burnout at their current jobs, and more than half said they’d felt it more than once.
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Seth Godin Blog
AUGUST 1, 2018
Here’s a simple hierarchy: The self-driving car. Cruise control. Manual driving. Hitchhiking. Bicycling. Walking. The arc? As you move down the list, it gets harder and harder to coast. It moves from “set it once and forget it” to “one step at at time.” The growth of audiobooks is outpacing reading. Why? Because audiobooks come with their own motor.
Consulthon
AUGUST 1, 2018
Hi dear consulthons, One of my favourite pictures showing the attitude and wrong approach of most of the Companies to the Optimization Process is attached here. Have you faced the same problem? 90.
Johanna Rothman
AUGUST 2, 2018
Many organizations plan to create certainty, guarantees of some variety. What if we thought about agile planning as a way to manage uncertainty? When I look at long roadmaps with all the “must-do” feature sets and the pressure managers put on teams to commit to delivery, I wonder about this question: How well do we understand the problems we want to solve?
Harvard Business
AUGUST 3, 2018
SuperStock/Getty Images. At some point in your career, you likely encountered a manager you believed was unfair. You probably thought to yourself, “ When I’m a manager, I’m never going to be like that! ” Now that you’ve been promoted to a management position, you’re probably dedicating significant amounts of time and energy to making unbiased decisions, but no doubt finding that the right balance is elusive.
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Martinka Consulting
AUGUST 1, 2018
When we think of innovation we think of the technology industry, don’t we? We tend to think of disrupters like Amazon, Google, Netflix, and others. Or perhaps the company that started SaaS (Software as a Service), which has permeated into way too many industries and businesses. It seems almost every time I look at some service they want a subscription; from wine clubs to every software possible, to maintenance agreements, and more.
Emerson Consulting Group
JULY 31, 2018
By Ken Lizotte CMC. Enjoy this excerpt from The Speaker’s Edge: The Ultimate Go-To Guide for Locating and Landing Lots of Speaking Gigs (Maven House Press). If you want to be respected as a “thoughtleader” and if you especially want to add speaking engagements to your marketing repertoire, you must consider writing and publishing a book. The credential of book authorship–despite the rise of social media, YouTube, and Internet marketing–holds no equal.
Consulthon
JULY 30, 2018
Hello Everyone, Currently I'm working on project with the scope of reviewing the current performance management system and setting new KPI's. My challenge goes like this: 1) What is the balanced no.
Harvard Business
AUGUST 2, 2018
Taylor Callery/Getty Images. Articles about artificial intelligence often begin with an intention to shock readers, referencing classic works of science fiction or alarming statistics about impending job losses. But I think we get closer to the heart of AI in 2018 when we think about small and mundane ways in which AI makes work just a little easier.
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Confessions of a Consultant
JULY 29, 2018
Saving the World is over-rated (if you don’t save yourself first). I have just finished reading the book ‘To Russia with Love.’ No, it wasn’t the James Bond story (“From Russia with Love)by Ian Fleming. But there was still plenty of adventure in this one. The book details the story of Debbie Deegan, a stay-at-home mother in Clontarf who initially took in a ‘Chernobyl Kid’ for the summer.
Strategy+Business
AUGUST 1, 2018
There are lots of whimsical ways to stay grounded, but simply walking around the workplace is still the best.
Peter Stark
JULY 28, 2018
Frequently, we are asked to work with teams that are experiencing low levels of motivation and morale. When we ask managers to describe their most demotivated and unengaged employees, they typically refer to them as their lowest performers. To our astonishment, however, when we interview team members, we often find that the team’s top performers have some of the lowest levels of morale.
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