Category: Consulting skills

Amazon Memo: What Lessons Does It Hold?

The Amazon memo is often mentioned as one of the management team’s keys to the company’s operational success. Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos credits their embrace of the six-page…

Time Management & Productivity

What is more important – working harder or working smarter? Though both are crucial to a company’s success, when you can’t have both, working smarter leads to faster and more…

Creative Destruction

Creative destruction is a concept used for explaining change in market dynamics characterized by new products, services, and techniques displacing or replacing old ones. In the wake of globalization and…

Upward Feedback: What Is It & Examples

Asking for feedback from your team or boss is hard. You open yourself up to criticism and put yourself in a vulnerable position in the workplace. However, it’s arguably even…

Managing Remote Teams

You may be one of the many managers new to managing a remote team as a result of our new normal of social distancing. Whether this will be a permanent…

How To Delegate Effectively

Knowing how to delegate and do it effectively is more than just simply passing along tasks. Delegating is an opportunity to empower employees. It allows them to take ownership of…

Unemployment & Recession: Cause & Effect?

Recession and unemployment seem to go hand-in-hand. For many individuals, unemployment describes their primary experience of a recession, as they are laid off or unable to find work. The two…

Microsoft Teams vs. Zoom vs. Cisco Webex

We’ve seen a huge uptick in the usage of video conference apps since the onset of COVID-19. “I’m hopping on another Zoom call…” has become the new buzz-phrase in households…

How To Persuade People Through Story

Think back to a conversation where you tried to persuade someone to your point of view. You used every fact and figure you could think of. You created a logical…

Understanding Millennials, Gen Xers, & Boomers: How to Work Together

For the first time in history, there are 4 generations of people working together in the marketplace. Working together is more challenging than ever with so many different generations at…

US Business Cycle: Expansion & Retraction

The concept of business cycles may not sound like the most reassuring thing in the world (unless you’re an economist). If you’re a small business owner, or the employee of…

Leadership Styles

Leadership styles may differ, but the goal is the same: to inspire people to achieve and maintain forward progress - both for themselves personally and for your organization at large.…