Chart Your Course

DECEMBER 28, 2017

In fact, according to the global staffing agency Ranstad, “many workers are seeking project or consultant-based work, with as much as 61 percent of the workforce choosing agile* careers by 2019” Greater use of Big Data in HR. Agile career: a series of jobs, working in temporary, contract, consultant, or freelance capacities.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 26, 2018

I met Forrest Gump in the movie, a couple of years before I read the book. Befriending and spending time with Forrest would be a fascinating ride of insight, laughter, and admiration. Before becoming an author of business books and historical fiction, he was the CEO of a Fortune 500 company and a global strategy consultant.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

“Death of a B2B Salesman,” a new report from Forrester Research , lends urgency to the need for companies to rethink and radically transform their sales models by incorporating digital media into their processes. Contrary to what these findings — and Forrester’s prediction that “1 million U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

Rate employees along metrics of time or cost, and they will respond in kind, even if cutting cost makes for a poor customer experience," write three Bain consultants on the Bain Insights blog on Forbes. Forrester). Take call centers, which all too often focus their performance reviews around cost-driven data like "average handle time."

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

In fact, a study by Adobe and Forrester Consulting showed that 82% of leaders surveyed saw a strong link between creativity and business results. Having a reputation for creativity can be a major boon to your career. If you feel your creative potential is being overlooked, it’s worth the time and effort to rebrand yourself.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

In a recent Forrester survey of 100 customer experience professionals, nearly half of respondents said that their executive team''s strategy for customer experience is market differentiation. Why haven''t we seen more and more companies earning excellent scores in Forrester''s Customer Experience Index ?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

John McCarthy of Forrester Research predicts that at least 3.3 As a consultant, you absorb the costs of benefits, and hiring you is a low-commitment proposition for employers. And as a consultant, your internal experience is a plus. When she became a consultant, she shifted her focus to accounting in nonprofits.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Early last year when it was becoming clear that coronavirus would be a serious threat, Kim Scott, a workplace consultant, wrote the following in a Wall Street Journal article: “Everyone will remember how their boss responded during this time.” That boss was Admiral Forrest Faison, and he was Commander, Navy Medicine West (NMW).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

To learn more about the flexible workforce, download the June 2017 commissioned study Address Critical Skill Gaps With On-Demand Knowledge conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Catalant Technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

As Forrester’s July 2016 Hunting Insider Threats report states, “Insiders are people, not computers. This practice of political psychology, known as psychological content analysis or remote assessment, has its roots in psychological coding of leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

According to sales consulting firm The Sales Benchmark Index, nearly 60% of qualified leads fall victim to the status quo. However, a less anticipated and more dangerous enemy exists, called "no decision" — otherwise known as "the status quo."

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You're Not the Boss of Me

DECEMBER 21, 2009

o) Reply Gwyn Teatro December 22, 2009 at 5:18 am Hi Forrest! 2 Responses to I Love/Don’t Love Christmas…You? Kobayashi December 22, 2009 at 12:24 am Excellent read here! One of the things that I love most about Christmas is getting the chance to get back to basics and spend time with friends and family. And the cookies too! ;o)

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

One-third of all products are delivered late or incomplete due to an inability or delay in decision-making, according to research from Forrester Consulting and Jama Software. According to Forrester , for every hour a product teams spends on heads-down work, they spend 48 minutes waiting on decisions. That equates to more than 3.5

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

In the movie Forrest Gump , the protagonist becomes a very rich man due to a natural disaster and its unforeseen business consequences. When he first enters the shrimp boating business, Forrest catches no shrimp. His fortunes change when a hurricane strikes and his boat is the only one to survive the disaster.

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