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Your Strategic Plans Probably Aren’t Strategic, or Even Plans

Harvard Business

At the start of my public seminars on strategic planning I ask attendees, who rank from board members and CEOs to middle management, to write down an example of a strategy on a sheet of paper. Let’s go back to our seminar list and take one of the responses: “achieve $100m net revenue.”

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Less Marketing, More Consulting — How To Win Projects Within Your Network with Stuart Friedman: Podcast #19

Consulting Success

This Silicon Valley-based previous electrical engineer with a passion for theater studied at Carnegie Mellon, then started his career in product marketing and sales before becoming a VP General Manager. He shares a number of ways that he has made this work for him, including aggressively building product.

Marketing 202
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6 Steps to Make Your Strategic Plan Really Strategic

Harvard Business

I’ll let you in on the six-step technique I have developed over many years, working with clients and in teaching my public seminars on strategic planning. It was a national distributor of milk and other dairy products and in it, farmers occupied two roles. But methods can be learned. You may think that this will be easy.

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Can Consulting Make a Positive Social Impact?

Tom Spencer

Social entrepreneurship combines the problem solving, product design, and strategic implementation associated with traditional entrepreneurial and consulting roles with large scale societal impact. These students coordinate the activities of five innovators while reporting to the Director of Operations on the Executive Board.

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2024 Events for Project Managers, Business Leaders, and Industry Professionals

Epicflow

The Agile Software Development track will be interesting for Scrum masters, Agile coaches, team leaders, project and product managers, and everyone involved in product delivery. The other track, Product Design and Management, will attract product managers, UI/UX designers, and researchers.

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7 Factors of Great Office Design

Harvard Business

It’s one thing to note a person working solo in an otherwise empty seminar room, or a group of people huddling around someone’s desk because a conference room wasn’t available. The New York headquarters housed over a third of its workforce, including developers, the sales team, operations, and leadership.

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Bad Boss or Good Boss: Who Do Your Work For?

Rick Conlow

They are an epidemic killing off employee productivity, loyalty, creativity and company profit. The worst bosses contribute to poor morale and bad attitudes, which lead to poor productivity, indifferent customer service, lower sales, reduced quality, and poorer overall financial results. Operates with position power.