7 Steps to Building a Winning Consulting

Business

Clayton OatesChief Solutions Officer

QA Business

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There is Tide in the course of Human Events, Which when taken at the Flood –

Leads on Fortune ……

However if Omitted (missed), then our lives are bound in shallows and in

miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current

(opportunities), Or lose our future.

Brutus (Julius Caesar Act 4 Scene 3, 218 - 224 - paraphrased a bit)

#1Know Your WHYHOW !

People that know HOW work for people who know WHY !

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“Its always darkest before the dawn”

Anon

#2Learn & Earn

“You will never out earn me – unless you first out learn me!”

Brad Sugars

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“10,000 Hours Rule”Malcolm Gladwell

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“Disruptive Innovation”Clayton Christensen

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“Lean Startup”Eric Ries

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“Change is not merely necessary to life – It is life”

Alvin Toffler

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#3Be Curious

“You can have everything in life you want if you will just help

enough other people get what they want!”

Zig Ziglar

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The “Johari Window”

#4 Specialisation……..

Definition of an Accountant

“Someone who knows a little about a lot of things!”

I think anAccountant said that

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..….With Diversification

#5Build your Network

Your Database is your Business

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#6Understand and Apply Leverage

“What if you invest in training staff and they leave……”

“What if you Don’t train them and they stay……

Tom O’Toole

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Actual Rate Vs Effective Rate (Know the difference)

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#7Get Off IT and Get ON With IT

“To Know and Not to Do – Is Not to Know !”

No Idea Who Said that but it’s a ripper saying

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#8Some Bonus

Tips

“Move your Cheese before someone else does”

Made up by some blokewho is an Each Day Appreciator

– You are looking at him

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Thank You

Remember“Your Future is as BIG as you

See I.T.”

Q&A ?

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