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10 Ways To Making Money And A Difference as a Consultant & Coach (Number 2 Is My Favorite)

Consulting Matters

Consultants do not work harder than their clients – they have to bring the energy and sponsorship of the work. Our clients have to bring the energy for their own change that we can support. This perspective is what will keep us in the game over the long-term as we need boundaries to protect our energy and compassion.

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Texas Energy Screw-up and Small Business Impairments

Martinka Consulting

The headlines about the Texas freeze and energy disaster caught my attention. The bottom line is Texas officials had been warned many times over the last 30 years about their energy infrastructure not being winterproof. The post Texas Energy Screw-up and Small Business Impairments appeared first on Martinka Consulting.

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How Digital Technology Is Changing Farming in Africa

Harvard Business

The process improves farm productivity and reduces input waste by using analytics to facilitate data-driven farming practices for small-scale farmers. And SunCulture , which sells drip irrigation kits that use solar energy to pump water from any source, has made irrigation affordable.

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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business

From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. firms have long had a simple mantra: “Invent here, manufacture there.” ” But, increasingly, those same companies are now choosing to invent as well as manufacture abroad.

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Don’t Neglect Your Customers During a Merger

Harvard Business

In many cases, integration efforts can take up so much time, energy, and attention that managers and employees are distracted from their day-to-day roles. After all, during a merger, that’s where all the action is. But if leadership allows itself to get distracted, the base business can quickly suffer. Create a dedicated deal team.

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Keeping Human Stories at the Center of Health Care

Harvard Business

.”) This allows leaders to focus on their team members’ well-being and to measure the impact of new processes, technologies, and care models on the well-being of physicians, nurses, and staff. Had we done this before EMR implementations, we would have avoided the burnout of a generation of clinicians.

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6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team

Rick Conlow

With training for multiple process improvement action teams, they won the JD Power Award. Great team leaders creatively renew the energy and focus of this team, this takes reiteration. (See this– SPICA: Team Management Skills. ) For example, one organization I worked with had no training and were last in their market.