Consulting Matters

AUGUST 6, 2018

I was asked to lead a massive initiative at Disney to help the operations executives redefine the guest/cast and cast/leader experience. As the consultant on the project, I took a lot of time and care to interview each executive. In this resource you'll find a series of exercises to help you quickly master politics.

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Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 19, 2018

To win business and deliver results - all consultants MUST cultivate their political savvy. While we may think that executives hire consultants for economic reasons - the reality is that more often that not, we're brought in for political reasons. Who has the formal authority but is not fully exercising it?

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Culture Exercises System Talent 213

PM Alliance

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Try this: Identify areas within your operations where technology elements can further streamline activities and eliminate repetitive tasks. Artificial intelligence (AI) will be a factor in more areas of business operations. Automation and collaboration tools, for example, can help reduce processing time and other delays.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Today we bring to you some key ways that you can increase your business understanding and, therefore, your effectiveness in consulting. As a consultant, you have to look at things in ways that most people would not. There are other options - including our “Consultant for a Day” exercise or the MC Consulting Bootcamps.

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Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 19, 2018

To win business and deliver results - all consultants MUST cultivate their political savvy. While we may think that executives hire consultants for economic reasons - the reality is that more often that not, we're brought in for political reasons. Who has the formal authority but is not fully exercising it?

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Culture Exercises System Talent 184

Brimstone Consulting

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The interim president of a global packaging company’s beauty and personal care division faced mounting market pressures and obstacles, including an absence of operating mechanisms and a lack of trust among the leadership team. As part of the PL program, the team conducted an extensive calendar management exercise.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 27, 2014

A prospective management consultant without basic business understanding is like a camera tripod with 2 legs — it just won’t work out for you. What will you learn from starting a business that will help you prepare for consulting? Complete our Consultant For a Day exercise. Size its market.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Last week we held an MC exclusive subscriber giveaway contest – entrants told us in 200 words or less how they became interested in consulting. The prize for best answer was a FREE Consulting Case Bank and The Consulting Bible 3rd edition – a HUGE giveaway – so we weren’t surprised when we heard from so many of you.

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The second full year for Asamby Consulting is in the books. Before I get too philosophical, let’s dive into my 10 learnings from year two of building a consulting firm. #1 There is the team, there is the way in which you approach sales and then there is how you manage operations. I was wrong. It is all connected.

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Makarios Consulting

APRIL 12, 2023

I was leading them in an exercise to identify their core values. If you think you can operate out of two different sets of core values, the truth is that you do not have any set of core values. To realize that vision, his people would need to operate out of a set of shared values. appeared first on Makarios Consulting, LLC.

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Steve Shu Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2023

There will be some players that will be way more agile than others and able to capitalize on both important behavioral implications and operational tactics. Use a whiteboard exercise to think about ideal approaches to solving a problem. However, there will also be those that look at this as an opportunity.

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 11, 2024

Leaders striving for a better workplace may suffer consequences In a recent post on LinkedIn from the Business & Management Consultants open group, a contributor posted, “A manager who challenges the boss and stands up for their team, despite risking their own career, is a true leader.” Am I vilifying business owners and executives?

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Ethics Conference Meeting Leadership 98

Harmonious Workplaces

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This morning, I attended a Momentum session of the Society for Evidence-Based Organizational Consulting (SEBOC). I also handled recruitment, payroll, inventory management, and other store operations. I gained my first consulting client, a small mental health counseling service.

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Brimstone Consulting

MAY 6, 2022

The interim president of a global packaging company’s beauty and personal care division faced mounting market pressures and obstacles, including an absence of operating mechanisms and a lack of trust among the leadership team. As part of Business Acceleration Teams, the team conducted an extensive calendar management exercise.

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How To Leadership Talent Exercises 78

Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

What was missing from current consulting resources? An update to The Consulting Bible wasn’t enough. We had to up the ante…free ourselves from the confines of a book…so that we could blast open the most valuable vault in the history of consulting interview prep. What had they wanted more of?

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Banking Case Interview Consulting Interviews 113

Consulting Matters

AUGUST 19, 2019

The team was poring over the guest research when the most senior operations and creative executives looked at each other across the table and said at the same time, “You know what – we need to be a DISNEY theme park.” I didn’t actually leave Disney to start a consulting business.

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Markovitz Consulting

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Unless they develop front-line operators’ problem solving capability, they’re sowing the seeds of their own demise. But classroom lectures, readings, and exercises are, at best, difficult to transplant to actual shop floor interactions, and at worst, a waste of time. But of course, the more fires they douse, the more fires break out.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 11, 2015

How in the world did Josh go from a PhD in cell and molecular biology to a job in federal consulting for The Tauri Group? Here at MC, we had the pleasure of recently interviewing Josh and asking him how he’s navigated his interesting career path, and how consulting was a great place for his passions and skills to collide.

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Comatch

MAY 3, 2023

To keep up in the rapidly evolving digital landscape, it’s critical that consultants understand how AI can enhance and facilitate their work. We’re breaking down the essential information about ChatGPT and its impact on the consulting industry, with a focus on its consequences for FinTech. Let’s start with the basics: What is AI?

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ConsultX

AUGUST 10, 2021

Our list of highly recommended books to help you succeed as a consultant. By business owners, for business owners, Conquer the Chaos enables you to reevaluate your approach, revitalize your operations, and realize the freedom and success your hard work deserves. Small business consultant and author Michael E. Get started today!

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Consulting Small Business Video Ethics 52

Markovitz Consulting

APRIL 11, 2018

As you can see in the chart below (copied from the magazine), fully 44% of responders said that ROI justifications are a key operational challenge in making improvements. One implication is that workers are looking to major investments in machinery, software, or other technology for their improvements, rather than exercising their creativity.

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Makarios Consulting

JUNE 1, 2023

This phrase is taken from the GWC tool, which is part of the Entrepreneurial Operating System ® (EOS®). People can’t learn to act independently unless they get to exercise some degree of choice.” Each month, he met with all of them for a financial and operational review. A person is in the right seat if they “GWC” it.

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Leadership Resources Operations Training 68

Markovitz Consulting

MAY 29, 2018

The authors point out that without day-to-day exposure to the firm’s operations, directors typically have a thin understanding of the company. As a result, board meetings are only three to four hours long, compared with the all day or multiple day exercises in tedium at many large corporations.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 7, 2016

Pierre was a junior at Harvard University who was offered 2 very exciting internships – one for BCG in management consulting (plus, after this call he got an offer for Bain as well) and the other for a VC firm in New York. Want to know the pros/cons of consulting vs. VC from our perspective? Are you in the same shoes?

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Asamby Consulting

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Numerous example can be done regarding how subtraction can improve our personal life as compared to addition: Few high quality pieces of clothing may be better than an overflowing, cluttered wardrobe Removing junk food can improve your health more than adding an intense and time-consuming exercise routine (although exercise is also important!)

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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Maybe an exercise routine that leaves you with sore muscles? My point is, buying and selling a business (as well as starting one, operating one, growing one) is a lot smoother with the right team. The post Fear of the Unknown appeared first on Martinka Consulting. Yeah, I did the latter recently. ” Theodore Roosevelt. .

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Description: On this episode, I’m talking with Emma Sharley, an experienced and very successful brand and marketing consultant in Australia. Emma has worked with both large corporations and smaller operations, and she’s joined me today to talk about the keys to success that have taken her consulting business to the next level.

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Brimstone Consulting

APRIL 4, 2023

The coachee was the head of the US Operations group; we will call him “Bob.” Having partnered with Brimstone in the past on creating a strategy for the Operations group in Europe, Bob’s manager reached out to us, and Bob agreed to enter into a 6-month coaching relationship with one of our executive coaches. Any exercise?

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

Consulting lead generation isn’t easy, especially when done online. Now, B2B decision makers are actively looking for consultants online, and your digital presence can be a huge part of how you generate new conversations with buyers. Learn a framework for discovering which method is best for your consulting business.

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Consulting Advertising Case Interview Conference 68

CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

It is something you must pay attention to as a new consultant. Incidentally, this is why consulting is a relationship business. In comparison, an equally skilled consultant from a different firm could say the exact same thing and have it be taken negatively by the client. Let me give you some examples.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Do you stumble when asked why you’d be a great consultant? Do you sweat when nervously thinking about how Disney can expand its operations in Brazil? We’ve helped 1600+ people land interviews and offers in the consulting world (including such esteemed firms as McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Deloitte and Mercer).

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Management Consulted

JULY 15, 2015

Today we highlight tremendous business analyst and post-consulting leadership jobs at Virgin Group. The group’s travel-related operations, led by 51%-owned Virgin Atlantic Airways, are among its largest cash generators. Virgin Group also operates rail franchises in the UK and sells tour packages. . Are you an employer?

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Groups Culture Interviews Travel 100

Martinka Consulting

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The sub-title includes, “After years of exercise and healthy eating, a reporter’s blocked artery came as a shock.”. A health industry reporter, who exercised, ate healthy (a lot of salmon, oatmeal, and similar but with a passion for cheese), and paid attention to his health found out he had a almost completely blocked carotid artery.

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Henman Performance Executive

MARCH 28, 2011

Who Needs An Operating Plan? You don’t want your operating plan to concentrate on the past—to focus on the reflection in the rearview mirror. Instead, your operating plan should be a kaleidoscope that exhibits various symmetrical patterns that reflect the loose bits of information you have aggregated. Advice for Consultants.

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QEmploy

JUNE 10, 2019

Podcasts are the future of self-learning and we made a list of 60 IT podcasts that IT consultants can learn from. While cooking, driving, exercising, shopping, commuting, you name it. Read also: Biggest Influencers in IT-Consulting ]. See this awesome list of great #podcasts for consultants Click To Tweet.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 29, 2021

The “ Official GMAT Book ” is the best source to familiarize yourself with the test structure and the way that the test operates. Even if you get the answer wrong and you understand your mistake, make sure to save that exercise. She currently works as a Research Analyst at UBO Consulting. Image: Pixabay.

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Guidelines Study Exercises Energy 114

Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Only operating in the short term or taking too much risk and gambling on one specific future are frequent traps leaders fall into when facing economic uncertainty. Implementation typically involves experimentation, analyzing the existing strategies, and creative experiential learning exercises.

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