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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

I also handled recruitment, payroll, inventory management, and other store operations. In a shop at the hotel in which she stayed, she found card decks published by The School of Life — a British organization committed to promoting fulfilling lives for people. What a funny place to find wisdom — a hotel lobby shop!

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Building Consulting Relationships

Tom Spencer

Invest in one quality business suit that you can wear throughout the recruitment process. Ask burning questions: Research the firm and its recruitment process prior to attending a careers event in order to avoid asking obvious questions. I enjoyed chatting with you about social enterprise and Michael Porter’s “shared value” theory.

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Ensuring Good Performance: How Consultancies Keep Their Employees Motivated

Tom Spencer

Plenty of studies argue that high job satisfaction within an enterprise correlates with motivation and consequently good organisational performance, whereas low job satisfaction demotivates employees and therefore causes poor performance at work. The key to keeping people motivated is job satisfaction.

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‘Uberization’ of consulting: A major disruption or merely hype?

Tom Spencer

UBER and Air-BNB are the companies who have perfected this model and have radically democratized the taxi and hotel industries, tapping into un-utilized excess capacities and ultimately making the economic system more efficient. Having said this, there are four key challenges that may prevent this new model from disrupting the industry.

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Getting an Intricate Operation Back in Sync

Harvard Business

Before I became general manager of The Beverly Hills Hotel, I held the same position at another luxury hotel up the coast. Later, he privately told me he was thinking of leaving the hotel. It’s especially damaging in an enterprise that relies upon the flawless execution of simultaneous interconnected actions.

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KPMG Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Enterprise Solutions. If KPMG isn’t visiting your school, contact a KPMG recruiter in the city of your choosing – but first, network with someone who is a manager or above who is an alum at your school. Richard Solomons – Chief Executive of InterContinental Hotels Group. KPMG CONSULTING INTERVIEWS & RECRUITING.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

We recruited a panel of expert judges (see the list below), who evaluated the companies through the lens of their own expertise and gauged which transformations were most durable and had the highest impact in their industries.