David A Fields
MAY 8, 2018
Many consulting firm leaders think marketing their consulting practice is like baseball: You get up to bat with your articles, or blogs, or tweets, or speeches (a.k.a. your marketing). At some point you’ll hit one out of the park; i.e., one of your marketing tactics garners a passel of viewers or readers or listeners.
Gina Abudi
MAY 9, 2018
Refining or updating processes don’t go well when the project is rushed or when the people tasked with doing the work are not the ones who use the process. When the project of updating processes fails, the company may give up and leaves things as they are – the status quo prevails. Processes should be [.]. The post Updating Processes? Go Slowly!
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Harvard Business
MAY 10, 2018
beastfromeast/Getty Images. In every conversation at work, there’s the explicit discussion happening — the words being spoken out loud — and the tacit one. To be successful in most organizations, it’s important to understand the underlying conversations and reactions that people in the room are having. But if you aren’t picking up on those subtle cues, how can you learn to do so?
Leadership Vision Consulting
MAY 6, 2018
Today on the podcast, we’re talking about five leadership qualities that all leaders need to master if they want to be most effective. These five traits come from a list that Sara has been compiling for several years. To date, her list includes over 20 highly discerned characteristics that are critical in helping determine the success or failure of a leader.
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Harvard Business
MAY 9, 2018
hh5800/Getty Images. The problems we’re facing often seem as complex as they do intractable. And as Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying, “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” So what does it take to increase the complexity of our thinking? Too many leaders default to looking at decisions as either-or: The answer is right or wrong, good or bad, win or lose.
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Jacq Hackett Consulting
MAY 7, 2018
When you first start out, how can you let people know you’re available for consulting without being that terrible cliché of a salesperson? Well it’s all about making connections with others and in this article I outline a few really good places to start.
Management Consulted
MAY 6, 2018
Does the intersection of tech and business strategy excite you? Does harnessing the effect of tech innovation on business get you out of bed in the morning? Then Bain is calling you – provided you are a 1st year MBA … Continued. The post 2018 ExperienceBain TECH appeared first on Management Consulted.
Harvard Business
MAY 7, 2018
Don’t avoid confrontation.
Tom Spencer
MAY 6, 2018
In this day and age of hospitals working to provide better care and outcomes for a cheaper price, one of the ways to gauge the impact that the implemented changes are having is through measuring patient satisfaction. Hospitals, health systems, and some private practice groups are working actively and diligently to improve patient satisfaction scores.
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Jacq Hackett Consulting
MAY 7, 2018
When you first start out as a consultant the prospect of having to sell your services can be daunting. And if you think this is something that only affects you, then you might be surprised to hear that a lot of my Solo Consultant Masterclass students have been in the same boat. When you’ve spent your career primarily within the public sector, moving to the private sector can mean getting outside your comfort zone – and for many of us, selling our services is definitely falls into that category.
CaseInterview.com
MAY 9, 2018
Most of my work involves either a corporate strategic plan or a personal strategic plan. The core of strategic planning centers around deciding on priorities and allocating resources to those priorities. A good strategic planning process is quite painful. It’s painful because resources are always constrained. This has been true in every strategic plan with which I’ve ever been involved.
Harvard Business
MAY 11, 2018
Dragan Todorovic/Getty Images. “We have a great culture.” We have all heard it. We have all said it. But what does that mean? Ping-Pong tables, free meals, and beer on tap? No. Yoga, CrossFit classes, and massage chairs? I so need that, but no. The promise of being part of a hip, equity-incentivized, fast growing team? Closer, but still no.
Tom Spencer
MAY 6, 2018
This post will mainly focus on introducing the case interview format, and an overview of several key formats that are typically used. You may wonder, shouldn’t the format always be the same? No, there are different formats for the case interview, in other words different setups. Standard Format. The standard format is a one-on-one case interview. With this format, there are two styles: interviewee-led and interviewer-led.
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Jacq Hackett Consulting
MAY 7, 2018
When you first start out as a consultant the prospect of having to sell your services can be daunting. And if you think this is something that only affects you, then you might be surprised to hear that a lot of my Solo Consultant Masterclass students have been in the same boat. When you’ve spent your career primarily within the public sector, moving to the private sector can mean getting outside your comfort zone – and for many of us, selling our services is definitely falls into that category.
Strategy+Business
MAY 10, 2018
In Soon: An Overdue History of Procrastination, from Leonardo and Darwin to You and Me, Andrew Santella explores procrastination, and why it is that whenever there is a job to do, you can count on someone putting it off.
Harvard Business
MAY 7, 2018
paul garbett for hbr. A lean startup approach, we are told, can empower big companies to innovate rapidly and effectively in the face of continual disruption, potentially even transforming enterprises into centers of continual new growth. Responding to this promise, many companies have started putting these ideas to use: A recent study of 170 organizations with $1 billion or more in revenue found that over 82% are currently using a lean startup approach in some aspect of their business.
Tom Spencer
MAY 6, 2018
Leading up to the summer before my senior year of college I was searching through Google for my next travel destination when a pop-up ad directed me to a website about Mongolia, the land of nomadic culture and once the largest contiguous empire founded by Genghis Khan. After some reflecting, I decided maybe I could both work and do backpacking at the same time.
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Seth Godin Blog
MAY 10, 2018
Walk through the diamond district in Manhattan and in the course of one block, at least a dozen men will stop you and ask if you're hoping to sell a diamond ring. A few blocks away, Tiffany will happily sell you a diamond ring. Buy a $7,000 ring at Tiffany's and walk over the one of these guys and you'll be lucky to get $1,000 for your new ring. That $6,000 is what you paid for the story.
Strategy+Business
MAY 6, 2018
In the face of heightened urgency, some companies are seeking to go "carbon negative" by finding ways to actively pull carbon dioxide from the air and lock it into their products. For manufacturers, this means getting access to carbon-negative raw materials. And they will soon have more options for doing so, thanks to an emerging new industrial sector.
Harvard Business
MAY 9, 2018
Monzino/Getty Images. One evening in February 2016, writer and filmmaker Ava DuVernay met with two top Disney executives about the possibility of directing an adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s classic novel A Wrinkle in Time. DuVernay, 44 at the time, had overcome many challenges to reach that moment. She had launched her career 12 years earlier with no connections — she just picked up a camera and started making small-budget films, including one she financed out of her own sav
Henry DeVries
MAY 10, 2018
Podcasts are one of the most effective business development strategies available today. Are you taking advantage of the marketing opportunities in hosting or participating in podcasts?
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Johanna Rothman
MAY 9, 2018
Sometimes, teams have trouble releasing their work, showing the value of the work they’ve completed. There are many possible reasons for this release problem: The team doesn’t have sufficient working agreements about what “done” means. I’ve written about frictionless releasing. In Create Your Successful Agile Project , I wrote about the done, done-done, and done-done-done words we sometimes hear.
Strategy+Business
MAY 8, 2018
High-profile companies that frequently use consumer data are targets, and negative effects linger for years.
Harvard Business
MAY 7, 2018
MINCHU/Getty Images. In a work culture with too many meetings, we often look for tactics to get out of meetings. But sometimes you need to get into a meeting, perhaps because the decisions made there will have implications for you or your team, or maybe because you feel you’ve been left out of important discussions. Whether you haven’t been invited because of an oversight or an intentional decision by the meeting organizer, you can take action to secure your seat at the table.
Seth Godin Blog
MAY 8, 2018
The mass producers of the world (from ketchup to school) tried to persuade us that by grouping everyone into a tight bundle of normal, everything would become more efficient and we'd all do better. In stats, this is called leptokurtosis. The race for leptokurtosis spread like wildfire. It implies control and reliability and compatibility. It insists that people who don't eat normal food are a pain in the neck, that folks who are differently abled and need an accommodation are somehow costing the
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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
Actionable
MAY 9, 2018
Let go of the idea of leader as hero, and model the kind of behavior you want to see from your team—you'll all be happier, healthier, and more productive. The post Put Away Your Cape: Why Leader as Hero Doesn’t Work appeared first on Actionable.co.
Strategy+Business
MAY 6, 2018
Digitization has permanently reshaped the global entertainment and media (E&M) ecosystem. The most successful E&M companies have always benefited from multiple revenue streams. But today profitable growth may depend on having five, six, or even more revenue streams -- an often fluid portfolio of bets on areas outside core business and traditional product lines.
Harvard Business
MAY 10, 2018
HBR Staff. Black women continue to be sorely underrepresented in leadership roles in corporate America. Currently, they make up 12.7% of the U.S. population, yet they represent only 1.3% of senior management and executive roles of S&P 500 firms, 2.2% of Fortune 500 boards of directors, and in a post-Ursula Burns world, there is not a single black female CEO in the Fortune 500.
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