News You Can Use – January 2012

Atos, the French IT company, has banned the use of email within the company. It’s just too much time-wasting noise, they concluded.

Looking for a searchable list of consulting firms? Recruiters at The Consulting Bench put together a comprehensive, indexed directory for US firms.

Wonder what’s next for the consulting industry? Fiona Czerniawska, of SourceforConsulting.com, offers a 12-minute video summary of a new report, Planning for Growth in an Uncertain Market.

Do you have what it takes to make the “challenger” sale? You can find out with this online assessment of your sales skills. Last month, the authors of The Challenger Sale did a podcast interview with me.

Here are six lessons for intelligent project management.

Google+ brand pages are getting off the ground slowly.

Twitter also launched its version of brand pages.

HubSpot: The Top 10 Marketing Infographics of 2011.

Consultants at Vynamic kicked off their Grammy-themed Holiday Party with this video–an interesting twist on intros.