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Name the Three Types of Consultants
Get Your Money’s Worth from Consultants – Ron Ashkenas – Harvard Business Review
- Contractors
- Technical Experts
- Partner Consultants
I have personally worked on engagements in each of these types of consulting.
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It’s Not Just a Job – It’s a Superjob
Change or Die
Seth Godin: The New Face Of Publishing « Radio Litopia
One of the most difficult things you ever have to do as a manager, executive or consultant is helping others to change. Follow this link to an interview with Seth Godin. It’s about 30 minutes long but well worth listening to. Godin’s thoughts about the future of the publishing industry are both scary and on target. Could there be another business so entrenched in the past, so tied to doing things the way they have always been done that its leaders are unable to see the changes all around us and that doing nothing becomes the perfect strategy for a slow and painful business death?
More on Multitasking – 04/23/2001
Interviews – Clifford Nass | Digital Nation | FRONTLINE | PBS
“It turns out multitaskers are terrible at every aspect of multitasking. They’re terrible at ignoring irrelevant information; they’re terrible at keeping information in their head nicely and neatly organized; and they’re terrible at switching from one task to another.”
This interview is worth reading in its entirety.
More on Flight Risk
Employee Loyalty Waning as National Unemployment Rate Continues to Fall
No, we are not talking about holes in 737’s. We are talking about MetLife’s 9th Annual Study of Employee Benefits Trends. I always credit my sources so instead of a direct link to the MetLife study I’ve linked the article where I first read about the study. There is a link at the bottom of that article to the download page at MetLife.
Flip is Dead
Cisco kills Flip, cuts 550 workers – Apr. 12, 2011
How to buy a business for $600 million (and with accounting charges added in) manage to lose $900 million two years later.
Read a Book a Week – 1Q 2011
The Kindle Swindle — Publishing Trends
This is an informative article on content farms and the early stages of spam in the world of digital publishing.
With ebooks exploding in popularity the issue of stolen content is going to be a huge issue.
It is with much sadness I must report I have read just five books in 1Q 2011.
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