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Quote Your Consulting Billing Rate with Confidence

Successful Independent Consulting

There are other ways to bill for your talent and expertise but those will be covered in another article. Benchmark so you know your rate is reasonable. Remember, even your higher rate will be cheaper in comparison.) It takes practice to quote your consulting billing rate with confidence. There are lots of ways to do this.

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How to Assess Entry-Level Product Manger Positions

Tom Spencer

There are two key ways to do this: Company culture is a great way to assess the quality and ease of being mentored. If culture precludes more junior product managers from reaching out to more senior product managers, that will manifest in the phone calls and is a big red flag. Are they top-down, bottom-up, or laterally generated?

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Why We Need to Stop Obsessing Over CEO Pay Ratios

Harvard Business

As an analogy, baseball player Alex Rodriguez was not clearly more talented than Babe Ruth, but he was paid far more because baseball had become a much bigger, more global industry by the time he was playing. For example, if the CEO improves corporate culture, it can be rolled out firm-wide, and thus has a larger effect in a larger firm.

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A Look into Microsoft’s Data-Driven Approach to Improving Sales

Harvard Business

This confirmed our understanding of various cultural norms and collaboration patterns which was an important input to our analysis. Internal and external network size in comparison with benchmarks in their local areas. Investment in business analyst, data science, and data engineering talent was essential.

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