This document provides information about the SMART Insights Group consulting firm and its services and leadership. It consists of quotes and descriptions. SMART Insights Group is a boutique strategic consulting firm that adapts to client needs and helps clients achieve goals by leveraging people, processes, and technology. It is committed to excellence and improving communities. The document also includes biographies of SMART's leadership program class of 2012.
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This document provides examples and rules for using prepositions of time in English, including "at", "in", and "on". It discusses using these prepositions with specific times, days, dates, seasons, and parts of the day. It then provides examples of sentences using these prepositions of time correctly. Finally, it prompts completing sentences with the correct prepositions and building a story using words associated with times and dates.
The document proposes a service called "Smart Shopper Home Appliance Alert" that would review weekly flyers and send subscribers information about appliance sales and promotions. Initial testing with 14 people found that many are unsatisfied receiving flyer information and 40% would pay at least $5 for a service that saved them $100 or more on appliances. Based on the feedback, the service will be modified to target all of Canada, lower the price to $5, and partner with retailers before further testing in Calgary.
The document proposes a service called "Smart Shopper - Home Appliance Alert" that would review weekly flyers and send subscribers information about appliance sales and promotions. Initial market research was conducted in Calgary and found that people were interested in such a service. Based on the feedback, the opportunity was modified to expand nationwide in Canada, lower the subscription price, and partner with retailers. The revised business idea aims to have over 15,000 subscribers across Canada generating $315,000 in annual revenue.
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This document defines leadership as the ability to influence human thought, emotion, and behavior, starting with oneself. It discusses intentional influence and identifies two key questions for leaders: what results are wanted and what behaviors will achieve those results. The document also outlines six sources of motivation and ability that influence can harness: personal motivation and ability, social/peer motivation and ability, and structural/environmental motivation and ability. It provides strategies for leaders to tap into each of these six sources to achieve their goals of intentional influence.
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5. DREAM WHAT YOU DARE TO DREAM.
GO WHERE YOU WANT TO GO.
BE WHAT YOU WANT TO BE.
EARL NIGHTINGALE
6. SMART Insights Group, LLC
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A boutique, strategic consulting firm dynamically capable of adapting
to the on-demand needs of its clients, responding to the many changes,
challenges & opportunities presented.
Your real Return-On-Investment (ROI) comes when we embed our
services into your daily operations; fully leveraging your “people-
power”, business processes and I/T infrastructure to achieve your
goals and objectives.
7. NOTHING IN LIFE IS TO BE FEARED.
IT IS ONLY TO BE UNDERSTOOD.
MADAME CURIE
8. IF I HAVE SEEN FURTHER IT IS BY STANDING
ON THE SHOULDER OF GIANTS.
SIR ISAAC NEWTON
9. Smart [smahrt] - adjective
1. Having or showing quick intelligence or ready mental
capability.
2. Shrewd or sharp, as a person in dealing with others or
as in business dealings.
3. Clever, witty, or readily effective.
11. AN INVASION OF ARMIES CAN BE RESISTED,
BUT NOT AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME.
VICTOR HUGO
12. In•Sights [ĭn'sīts'] - noun
1. The capacity to discern the true nature of a situation.
2. The act or outcome of grasping the inward or hidden
nature of things or of perceiving in an intuitive
manner.
13. WHEN LOVE AND SKILL WORK TOGETHER,
EXPECT A MASTERPIECE.
JOHN RUSKIN
14. COURAGE IS DOING WHAT YOU’RE AFRAID TO DO.
THERE CAN BE NO COURAGE UNLESS YOU ARE SCARED.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER
15. Our Commitment To Excellence & Service
“The re-investment of one's unique gifts or personal achievements, back into the
community in order to improve the human condition within the community.”
-- Keith Wyche
16. I WILL GO ANYWHERE PROVIDED IT IS FORWARD.
DAVID LIVINGSTON
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Engagement Director
Contact Us
Office: (202) 681-8244
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19. COMING TOGETHER IS A BEGINNING;
KEEPING TOGETHER IS PROCESS;
WORKING TOGETHER IS SUCCESS.
HENRY FORD
20. Atlanta Office Location
100 Tower Place
3340 Peachtree Rd, Suite #1813
Atlanta, Georgia 30326
21. UNTIL YOU TRY, YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU CAN’T DO.
HENRY JAMES
22. SMART Leadership Program
Class of 2012
Name School Major
Kennesaw State Business Administration/ International
Paola Caballero
(Atlanta, Georgia) Studies
Georgia State University
Lu Huang Masters in Professional Accounting
(Atlanta, Georgia)
Emory University
Alexis Gilbert Economics and History
(Atlanta, Georgia)
Emory University
Shade Lawal Anthropology
(Atlanta, Georgia)
John Marshall Law
Brandon Campbell 2L law student
(Atlanta, Georgia)
GSU Law
Sheree McGill 3L law student
(Atlanta, Georgia)