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How Do I Prepare for the Case Interview?

CaseInterview.com

Skills & Tools Needed. In preparing for the case interview, there are a few skills and tools that you can master to help you succeed. These tools are at the core of any successful management consultant’s problem-solving process. In this chapter, you will learn what these tools and skills are and how you can utilize them to help you perform at your best during the case interview.

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Don’t Focus on Leads For Your Consulting Business (Until You’ve Done This)

Consulting Success

Any consultant whose gone independent understands an important truth: You’re not just in the business of consulting. You’re in the business of marketing. Without marketing — generating conversations with buyers (leads) — you cannot generate revenue. And without revenue, you don’t have a business. But marketing is much deeper than generating conversations with buyers.

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How to Respond to “So, Tell Me About Yourself” in a Job Interview

Harvard Business

There is a right answer.

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Niche: Required or Overblown for Your Consulting Firm?

David A Fields

You’ve undoubtedly received plenty of advice to position your consulting firm in a narrow niche. Of course, you’ve also been advised to coat your daily diet with chocolate. (Maybe the latter advice was only from me, but it still counts.) Niche, chocolate. Is either one really necessary? Absolutely! Let’s look at some examples, a few … Continued.

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PowerPoint Best Practices for Creating Stellar Presentations

Mastering data visualization in PowerPoint will help accelerate your career because it positions you as someone who can present data that drives business decisions forward. think-cell's PowerPoint Best Practices eBook was created specifically for professionals aiming to master the art and science of data-driven storytelling. What’s inside: Practical Insights: Uncover valuable tips for crafting engaging and persuasive presentations.

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How to Create Breakthrough Success without Burnout: Interview with Rachelle Stone

Consulting Matters

Interview with Rachelle Stone. Betsy Jordyn: Welcome everybody, this is Betsy Jordyn. I’m super excited to have an opportunity to interview Rachelle Stone, one of my favorite Consultant Institute members, almost graduate. Rachelle, welcome. Rachelle Stone : Thank you. Good to be here, Betsy. Betsy Jordyn : So really what I want to understand from you cause there’s going to be a lot of people who are in the same boat that you were when we first met who are trying to grow your business

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An Unanticipated Benefit from Toyota Kata

Markovitz Consulting

I’m using Toyota Kata to help a client shorten its lead time for product design/delivery. This company sells primarily to department stores and mass merchants, a distribution channel that’s facing incredible pressure to shorten lead times—no one wants to guess six months out what’s going to sell, and inevitably be stuck with a bunch of closeout inventory.

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Crushing It With The 4 Cs Of Customer Experience

Henry DeVries

When it comes to customer expectations, are you crushing it or getting crushed? Make no mistake, if you are a trusted advisor or small business owner, you are being judged and there will be a reckoning.

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17 Learning Quotes that Inspire Life Achievements

Rick Conlow

The number 17 signifies wisdom, learning, insight, strength, victory, and self-discipline. Certainly, these seventeen quotes about learning connect us to that inner drive to tap our human potential. In addition, challenge us to be mutually responsible for harmony and peace in the world. 17 Inspiring Quotes about Learning. “ Perfect is the enemy of good.” Voltaire. “Develop a passion for learning.

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3 Reasons Why You Need a Strategic Plan

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

Are you leading an organization or a business? Whether you are leading a big or small organization, or a non-profit or for-profit business, you need to have a strategic plan.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Rich Media That Is Pushing the Training Boundaries

Clarity Consultants

While these rich media techniques are often considered cutting-edge, they are becoming more widely available. Here’s what you need to know about the learning technology and how it is pushing training boundaries. The post Rich Media That Is Pushing the Training Boundaries appeared first on Clarity Consultants - Training Development.

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A Marketing Plan for an Ex Nun

The Fearless Marketer

One of my most rewarding clients was a nun. Patty Grasher was a nun who lived in a convent for 28 years. And I was rather surprised when she signed up for one of my programs about 15 years ago. She blew away my pictures of what a nun in a convent does with her time! Apparently, she was the author of several books and ran a radio show part-time. And she was highly entrepreneurial, wanting to know how to market her books more effectively.

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Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 2: Where Does Management Fit?

Johanna Rothman

In Part 1 , I wrote about how “Agile” is not a silver bullet and is not right for every team and every product. This post is about how management fits into agile approaches. Too often, managers think “agile” is for others, specifically teams of people. Teams need to figure out how to manage their WIP, collaborate with the customer, and deliver something small every day.

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Why Invest in Your Web Presence?

Chad Barr

Should you invest or keep investing in your web presence? Obviously, I am somewhat biased since this is the essence of my business. I have developed 17 reasons why you should consider doing so. Here they are: Transform appearance. It gives you the opportunity to recreate and innovate the way you look, the way you are perceived and your overall virtual presentation.

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Savings Consultants Are Needed in Today's Market More Than Ever

Savings Consultants are needed in today’s market more than ever. With an increase in expenses, businesses are looking for opportunities to save. Often unknown to businesses are savings in expense reduction, specialized tax savings, specialized savings including medical underpayments, health benefits cost reduction, zero cost processing, and more. Blue Coast Savings, with over 20 years in business, assists Savings Consultants in helping these companies move toward more profitable businesses.

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Unforced Errors

CaseInterview.com

The sports of baseball and tennis include reference to a concept called an “unforced error.” This means a player makes a mistake of his or her own doing (as opposed to being “forced” into the error by an opposing player’s efforts). When I hold office hours for members of my mentorship program, I often get questions asking me to speculate about what someone’s boss or client is thinking.

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Creating Better Communication Within Your Organization

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

Communication is such an overlooked component of leadership and business, even though you spend so much time doing it. Improving your communication by 10 or 20% can give you extra hours every day to do things, move your team forward, and be the great leader that you are. But how do you create better communication with your team and throughout your organization?

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Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 3: What Is The Recipe, The Right Answer?

Johanna Rothman

I started this series asking where “Agile” was headed. Part 1 was about the 4 big problems I see. Part 2 was why we need managers. This part is about how people want a recipe, The Answer, for how to get better at “Agile.” Before we can address what an answer might be, your need to know your why for an agile approach. Why do you or your organization want to use an agile approach?

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Preparing a Business Buyer to Buy

Martinka Consulting

There’s an emphasis on exit planning for owners (including my book, If They Can Sell Pet Rocks Why Can’t You Sell Your Business (For What You Want?)). What about preparation for buyers so they don’t sabotage themselves? That’s where we come into play! The post Preparing a Business Buyer to Buy appeared first on Martinka Consulting.

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TOOLS and METHODOLOGIES for developing DECISION SUPPORT PACKAGES

This White Paper targets opportunities for Management to develop proficiency in the Decision Framing and Analyses element of input to Decision, & Risk Analyses for Major Project Funding Decisions.

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The Importance of a Consulting Cover Letter

CaseInterview.com

As a former consulting resume and cover letter reader for McKinsey, and someone who has reviewed thousands of applications, I have noticed an interesting trend. Most cover letters stink, and many resumes emphasize the wrong things. Between the two, the cover letter is more important for the simple reason that if your cover letter does not do a good job, your resume is either never looked at all or is only glanced at, rather than read thoroughly.

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The ebb and flow of a transaction…

Ben de Haldevang

Dear followers / loyal readers / friends and family, below a new piece after a little break over the summer. Same rules apply, please comment, criticise etc as you wish. All the best. [link].

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Disrupting the Insurance Industry with AI

Harvard Business

Daniel Schreiber, Lemonade’s CEO and cofounder, joins Azeem to discuss how the company is using artificial intelligence to disrupt a legacy industry by realigning incentives with the values that customers care about.

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What Time Is It? Time To Change

Simon Associates

Maybe it is time to change “Change Management”. In today's highly competitive, technologically disrupted business environment, one thing that’s a constant across all industries is change. It cannot be ignored—it must be embraced. But how? How do you change when our brains hate it? And, while change is all around us, few of us really know how to change, i.e., how to adopt new ways of doing things.

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Why You Need to Use Case Studies in Sales and Marketing (and How to Start Now)

Case studies are proof of successful client relations and a verifiable product or service. They persuade buyers by highlighting your customers' experiences with your company and its solution. In sales, case studies are crucial pieces of content that can be tailored to prospects' pain points and used throughout the buyer's journey. In marketing, case studies are versatile assets for generating business, providing reusable elements for ad and social media content, website material, and marketing c

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Roland Berger Interview Format

CaseInterview.com

What follows is an exchange I had recently with a CaseInterview.com student about his upcoming Roland Berger interview that he was told would be a presentation interview. CaseInterview.com Student: Many thanks for all your materials, they have been very helpful in my case preparations. I have a final round interview at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants in Detroit on Monday.

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The last word on email signatures

Kai Davis

This week in Freelance Camp ( [link] ), a rousing discussion on where we stand when it comes to email signatures. This is a topic I have a lot of strong, strange opinions on. In Camp, I shared an impromptu teardown of my email signature, and I’m sharing it here with you. Maybe this will spark a few ideas on your part. —-. I separate the body of the email from my email sig with a horizontal line.

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What Is the American Dream? Part One

Martinka Consulting

During the 2018-19 holidays ProPublica published an article titled, “ If You’re Over 50, Chances Are the Decision to Leave a Job Won’t be Yours. ” * Let’s start with some highlights from the article: While there are stories about individuals and their situations, most of the facts come from a study started in 1992 that’s been tracking 20,000 people, especially when they hit age 50.

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What if consultants gave up flying?

The Source

On Easter day this year my conscience flicked a switch. Like most people, I suspect, I’d become used to more or less carrying on as usual against a backdrop of increasingly cataclysmic predictions about the future of our planet. I felt concerned about the situation, and had made some changes in my life, but the facts still overwhelmingly told a story of hypocrisy: My home life might have been relatively low-impact from a carbon perspective, but my need to travel was leaving a massive and dirty f

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.