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How a Pen and a Sheet of Paper Make You an Efficient Consultant

Tom Spencer

When one thinks of management consultants, one inevitably thinks of highly efficient workers. This is because an efficient way of working is essential as a management consultant. So, the crucial question is, how do you become an efficient worker to withstand the time pressure in a management consultancy? Simple as that.

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Foundational Skills for New Sales Hires: The Top 7

LSA Global

Yet too often, organizations f ocus too narrowly on product training and neglect the foundational skills for new sales hires to be set up for success. Collaboration Across Functions In most B2B sales environments, selling is a team sport. Do you equip new sales hires with customer-centric communication tools (e.g.,

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Until You Have Productivity Skills, Productivity Tools Are Useless

Harvard Business

But once I had, I realized how much the software and gadgets helped me to kick my productivity into high gear. This is an important point that is often overlooked when people try new productivity tools, and when organizations introduce new tools to employees. To illustrate the problem, let’s use sports as an example.

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In Product Development, Let Your Customers Define Perfection

Harvard Business

In an era of high-stakes innovation, there is no clearer illustration of how to develop new products the right way (and the wrong way) than a tale of two car companies. How Porsche got the product right. In the late 1990s, Porsche avoided bankruptcy by making its manufacturing more efficient and its sports cars more reliable.

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Top 11 Must-Read Project Management Books

Epicflow

The Lazy Project Manager: How to Be Twice as Productive and Still Leave the Office Early by Peter Taylor The Lazy Project Manager is based on the idea that lazy people always try to find easier ways to do what they have to. So, focusing on 20% of the most important work will result in 80% outcomes.

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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. The better the team learns together, the better the product is. See the Flow Efficiency series.)

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Selling Products Is Good. Selling Projects Can Be Even Better

Harvard Business

In the beginning companies sold products. A focus on products means a focus on selling running shoes. Selling products limits the revenues you can make from clients: Unless you are innovating and continually updating your product offering, customer attrition tends to be high, and incentivizing repurchases can be hard.