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Why (and How) Your Consulting Firm Should Be Funny

David A Fields

Do you regularly make your clients and prospects laugh? There’s good reason to spill humor all over your consulting firm’s work. My team’s extensive, proprietary research among consulting firm leaders suggests you’ve been hilarious. Not recently, of course, but before you led a consulting firm.

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How to Get Lazy People to Work

Kevin Eikenberry

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe How to Get Lazy People to Work by Kevin Eikenberry on November 29, 2010 in Devloping Others , Leadership , Learning In our Bud to Boss Workshops we get asked different versions of this question frequently.

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Feedback: The Whole Truth (Almost)

Persuasive Powerhouse

They want to know how they are doing in the eyes of their stakeholders, and appreciate honest suggestions on what and how they can improve. This doesn’t mean that they should stop asking for feedback, it means that they just need to be aware that they may not get the full story from others.

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0510 |Les McKeown: Full Transcript

LDRLB

I fact, I should fess up, there are now four of us fully employed, and their are a team of about 4 or 5 things that we have virtually. I sold a consulting firm that I’d got to about 120 people in 1998 and I just swore I didn’t want to employ people anymore. David: So who are you and what do you do?

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Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders – An Expert Roundup

Joseph Lalonde

I asked each of these leaders a single question about healthy leadership: What healthy habits do you attribute to your success as a leader? These 3 areas of health are critical to your success and I’m glad to see a recurring theme among the answers. Excerpt from The Most Valuable Missing Ingredient in Your Fitness Routine.

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The Best Leaders Are Insatiable Learners

Harvard Business Review

I wonder, though, how many of these leaders (and the business world more broadly) have truly embraced the lessons he shared that day. the consulting firm whose advice has shaped the fortunes of the world’s richest and most powerful companies. Someone said to me the other day ‘How can I be so bored when I’m so busy?’

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How to Write a Cover Letter

Harvard Business Review

Scouring through online jobs boards, spiffing up your résumé, prepping for grueling interviews — none of it’s fun. It’s akin to making spelling and grammar mistakes in your résumé. Here’s how to give hiring managers what they’re looking for. Do your research first. But don’t try to be funny. The answer is yes.

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