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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

Management Consulted

Bankers do some for roadshows, due diligence, etc but spend 90% of their time in one office until you’re partner-level (this is investment banking; you can expect more travel in private equity and investment management). Relationship with coworkers, managers, and firm. 3 SKILL DEVELOPMENT. 2) Heavy team interaction.

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Small Steps or Big Steps: What’s the Right Way to Begin Improvement?

Markovitz Consulting

He describes his “shock and awe” approach (my terminology) in his excellent book The Lean Turnaround , where he takes the company through several week-long kaizen events. In the same way, I believe that you have to develop the organizational muscles required for continuous improvement through small steps.

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A Simple Way to Map Out Your Career Ambitions

Harvard Business

My experience with even the most successful global companies is that they’re between average and poor at developing future talent. They’re often not transparent about your real needs and vague about the most effective development options. Development matters. Leadership & Developing People Book.

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How Companies Escape the Traps of the Past

Harvard Business

” This is a framework I have developed over the course of 35 years of working with and doing research in corporations around the world. In the fall of 1981, [I challenged] the Elfun Society, an internal management club at GE… It was a networking group for white-collar types.”

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Improve Your Resume by Turning Bullet Points into Stories

Harvard Business

Hiring managers will see what you have done — and can do for them. He’s building a bridge between challenges he’s met in the past and challenges the hiring manager is currently facing: “Build start-ups’ commercial infrastructures from the ground up—driving long-term growth and profitability.

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We Interviewed 57 Female CEOs to Find Out How More Women Can Get to the Top

Harvard Business

They have to prove themselves 10 times over before they’re actually given the opportunity, so their development takes longer.” Throughout the study’s assessments of female CEOs, a combination of four traits and competencies emerged as key to their success: courage, risk-taking, resilience, and managing ambiguity.

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Internal Hires Need Just as Much Support as External Ones

Harvard Business

While the focus in recent years on giving more support to onboarding managers and executives unquestionably has produced excellent results – such as reduction in new-hire failure rates from 40% to 10%-15% in many companies – the problem of ineffective inboarding has been ignored. Why dangerous?