by Stephen Denny on June 28, 2010
I had a quick Twitter exchange with Mark Oakes (@MarkOOakes) and Ted Coine (@tedcoine) last week that started with a simple question: “Beyond hiring right, how do you ensure change happens after you, as the consultant, have left?” Instilling change is more like chiropractic than surgery. It’s lots of small shifts and not one haymaker [...]
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by Stephen Denny on March 10, 2009
Dear CMO: I’ve had a series of conversations with both current and potential clients, as well as a handful of consultants themselves, on what makes a consulting engagement work or not. So here’s a quick primer for both parties – the client and the consultant – on how to get the best results for everyone. [...]
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by Stephen Denny on March 2, 2009
Dear CMO: Once upon a time, a very long time ago, I was a tennis player. In high school, our home courts were split between two locations. Our satellite courts were rough as sandpaper, which slowed the game down to a snail’s pace, and had nets with no center straps. They were 3’ 6” high the whole way across – not [...]
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by Stephen Denny on December 10, 2008
Dear CMO: I mentioned a few posts ago how my first week of Twitter went. I’m still trying to push my way into the 5% of traffic that can be considered “signal” as opposed to the 95% that we all know is “noise.” I strive to avoid fatuous statements of self-aggrandizement (“Darn, I just spilled [...]
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