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Three-Word Tricks to Boost Your Impact as a Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

For example, Decrease product returns by moving the quality checks upstream in the process. Its my policy Similar to the tip above, these words make things less personal and less negotiable. Its my policy to never discount my rates. Or Its my policy to maintain consistent rates across all my clients.

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The Future of Leadership: Embracing Change in a Dynamic World

Effective Managers

Leaders must embrace these changes, finding ways to maintain team cohesion, productivity, and culture in dispersed work environments. Whether it’s responding to a global crisis, adjusting strategies in the face of market shifts, or navigating internal organizational change, leaders must be flexible and ready to pivot when necessary.

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Disruption: How Companies Lose by Misjudging Substitutes

Tom Spencer

They track market share, pricing, and innovation trends, all in an effort to stay one step ahead. They innovate where incumbents stagnate, and they redefine markets by shifting how value is delivered.Netflix is a classic example. Moreover, substitutes can attract attention away from existing products by offering entirely new benefits.

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A Study of 16 Countries Shows That the Most Productive Firms (and Their Employees) Are Pulling Away from Everyone Else

Harvard Business

The corporate landscape has become increasingly unequal, with the most productive firms thriving and the least productive ones failing to keep up. And second, we are able to link it to firms’ productivity and several measures of labor market policies. The Productivity Gap Is Causing a Wage Gap.

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The Real Reason the German Labor Market Is Booming

Harvard Business

Considering how Germany anchors a European continent plagued by high unemployment and slow growth, its labor market is on fire. Analysts criticized the country’s labor market institutions as particularly inflexible. In addition, productivity increases in the sector outpaced wage increases. With just 2.6 trillion in 2016.

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Employee Well-being: The Next Competitive Advantage

Tom Spencer

This article explores the growing emphasis on employee well-being, initiatives companies are implementing to support it, and the benefits of prioritizing employee well-being, including increased productivity, innovation, and staff retention. Companies that invest in employee well-being tend to experience increased productivity.

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Big Ideas, Bad Results: Avoiding Strategic Uselessness

Tom Spencer

Over a 12 month period, the companys market capitalization dropped by more than US$5 billion. The firm aimed to become the world’s leading co-working space, and CEO Adam Neumann estimated the size of the market for shared office space by counting anyone with an office job. Actionable A strategy is only as good as its execution.