Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The truth is, I hit the same roadblock when I first started. To do this, I have to first expose the myths. This principle is true even if you have experience from companies like Disney. I'll never forget a work session I was doing for one of my first clients after leaving Disney. Unable to quantify our value.

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Chad Barr

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Recognizing the need for action, I approached the local Apple store, where it was determined a battery replacement was in order. Imagine the possibilities if we applied this principle more broadly. appeared first on The Chad Barr Group. However, time revealed a flaw – its battery life began to wane.

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Makarios Consulting

JULY 19, 2023

For business owners and leaders, attaining work-life fulfillment might appear at first to be a difficult if not impossible goal. Here, I (Tim) will share his principles and my thoughts on them. #1. Being compensated appropriately” While working just to get a paycheck is no way to live, we do need a paycheck in order to live.

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The Management Centre

OCTOBER 23, 2020

We expect them to be principled. However, whilst the principle is admirable, it is not always clear what leaders should actually be doing or saying that shows they are ethical role models. Get your house in order. But writing it down is just a first step. Leading in the not-for-profit sector can be tough. It shows intent.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Curiously, those who benefit the most from ground-breaking innovations are generally not those who made the crucial discovery in the first place. The first social media network was not Facebook, but a short-lived Hungarian start-up called iWiW, and the Ford Model T was by far not the first automobile either. Only a meagre 8.7%

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Brimstone Consulting

APRIL 28, 2021

The post Lead with Courage appeared first on Brimstone Consulting LLC. Because morality isn’t optional. And courage isn’t someone else’s job. THE CORE FOUR: HARNESS FOUR CORE BUSINESS DRIVERS TO ACCELERATE YOUR ORGANIZATION.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 28, 2023

(My plans were always firm for the first two weeks, and “squishy” for the last two weeks.) As the team completes one week, they add another week to the end and drop that first week, because the team completed the work. The work past the first couple of weeks is squishy. ” Exactly.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

The question of when to leave your first or second job is intimate and messy. Especially if your first job is management consulting as you will be presented with many opportunities to jump into industry. My decision-making process is structured into four parts: Three guiding principles for career transitions.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Why” Questions Innocuous as they might seem, it’s important to answer them well because they contribute significantly to your interviewers’ first impressions of you. The first step I took was to analyze the sentiments of over 100 employees in order to identify the key moments that mattered to them. and “why this firm?”.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The British government announced ‘public money for public goods’ to be the guiding principle of the new programme, aiming to dispel the inefficiency of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy. Bence Borbély is a Hungarian first-year History and Politics student at the University of Cambridge.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

First and foremost, I categorized tasks based on urgency and importance (this is sometimes referred to as the Eisenhower matrix , but I typically don’t mention this lest I come across as pretentious ). Throughout the day itself, I applied deep breathing and positive framing techniques I learn in yoga in order to stay calm and focused.”

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Consultants' Consultant

APRIL 23, 2019

In this podcast he explains the 3 principles of effective teams: 1. Purpose In order to get this we need to Connect Share Tell stories Here are my favourite quotes: The most important words a leader can say are “I stuffed […]. The post Psychological safety and more appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The first step to tackling complex and multifaceted issues is to deconstruct them into more manageable parts and rigorously define the problem statement. A particularity of communication in consulting (and most high-level executive settings) is abiding by the Pyramid Principle. first appeared on Tom Spencer.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 14, 2021

MECE is a principle used by management consulting firms to describe a way of organizing information. In case interviews, the MECE principle is a valuable tool for creating management consulting firms that break down complicated problems into basic components you can evaluate and help you get to the root of the problem.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

When you're starting off as a consultant, you might take the first one or two engagements a client offers. So I asked if Dan wanted my 2-minute talk about the agile and lean principles. I moved from the general principles to the problems of a “standard” agile approach. Dan, the procurement person, is an order-taker.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

They added the changes in reverse order. Because they added the changes in the wrong order, rollback didn't work. One clever first-line manager, Trina, asked, “What will you remove because you added this one?” Yes, this is one of the Modern Management Made Easy principles : Encourage experiments and learning.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

MECE (pronounced "me see") or Mutually Exclusive Collectively Exhaustive is a principle often used by management consulting firms such as McKinsey to describe a way of organizing information that is "Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive". Non-MECE segmentation may seem intuitive at first.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 27, 2021

Applicants tend to follow the principle “the more the merrier”, however the motto “less is more” makes more sense in this instance. In order to improve his game, this player does not play whole soccer games over 90 minutes continuously. To illustrate, think of a professional soccer player.

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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 27, 2021

And constant price increases including retroactive price increases on orders placed but not shipped. The customer ordered it at a fixed price based on the current supplier price, there’s a backlog from the manufacturer, they’re raising the price, and seller to the end user eats the increase. “A President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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Markovitz Consulting

JULY 11, 2017

First, build organizational muscles As I wrote in my book Building the Fit Organization , you don’t go into gym trying to dead lift 300 pounds on the first day, or try to run a 20 miles in your first marathon workout. You build your way up to those levels.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Agile software development is a set of principles and practices that aim to improve the effectiveness of software development. Software also becomes outdated periodically, which offers consultants the opportunity to undergo regular training in order to be informed about major developments and trends.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The greatest example I can think of that illustrates this principle occurred before I was born. Behind the scenes, thousands of engineers had reverse-engineered (so to speak) what technical achievements they needed to solve in order to meet the goal. It was the declaration by U.S. President John F Kennedy on May 25, 1961: “.this

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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

At some point, the world (the project, the moment) becomes so chaotic or dangerous that we sacrifice law in exchange for order. When do you suspend one set of valued principles in order to preserve the thing you set out to build in the first place? The question is: when. When is it time to declare martial law? (or

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 4, 2016

This is not Michael Gerber’s first rodeo. The Vision is the form your company must take in order to produce that result. Another principle he addresses is the importance of building your business on the franchise model to create sustainability and replicability. WHY READ IT? The Vision. The Purpose. The Mission.

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Epicflow

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The best way to address these questions is to go back to first principles and see how they apply to the world, as described above. The first step is to answer the question, “What is a portfolio?” Dependencies can be explicit, like a project requiring an outcome from another project in order to proceed.

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Melissa Agnes

MARCH 18, 2014

The Act, along with other related regulations and orders, introduces a comprehensive data protection framework that imposes broad obligations on “data users” – generally the organization that receives and processes personal data in respect to commercial transactions. The General Principle. The Notice and Choice Principle.

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The Consultants Peer Group

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

was stated in the first of this series of blogs. In the first of this series, I also presented an international definition of a management consultant shortened to read: – one who helps organizations through their knowledge and skills to provide objective advice the organization may be lacking. But back to the topic of this blog.

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LSA Global

JULY 26, 2023

If you want to improve your communication as a leader so that you connect more effectively with those around you, here is what your audience is looking for from you: Your True, Genuine Self Employees relate more readily with a leader who is authentic and comfortable sharing their true personality, values , and life principles.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

It is very much a specific format in terms of logical layout, conclusion stated first (followed by supporting facts in numbered order), optimal sequencing of ideas, elimination of unnecessary information. The other resource I would suggest (now that I think about it) is Barbara Minto's Pyramid Principle (book).

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 17, 2023

Imagine going the Olympics and crossing the 100 metre finish line in first place. Sustainable long term success should be defined not by the immediate outcome of your actions, but by the journey and the principles that you uphold along the way. Arms raised in triumph, and revelling in the glory of your success, you are a hero!

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ConsultX

AUGUST 10, 2021

Achieve your maximum potential—a must-read for the twenty-first century with more than 15 million copies sold! Commitment and Consistency: Once we make a choice or take a stand, we work to behave consistently with that commitment in order to justify our decisions. YouTube Video Summary: 6. YouTube Video Summary: 9. 500 CEOs.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

These are all part of the Modern Management Made Easy Principles. The wait time for finishing any management task outweighs the work time by an order of magnitude. She has small wait times between these first pieces. For example, you might: Clarify the purpose of some work for your team or part of a workgroup.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

What's the first instinct you and others have? In many company cultures (and in many family, marriage or parent/child relationship cultures), the first order of business is to decide whom to blame. Much of corporate politics (not to mention governmental politics) is based on this principle. "I Additional Resources.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 27, 2018

Eliminating the third party may sound like a small change, but it means disrupting entire industries like banks, law firms and public sector organizations who largely exist in order to act as intermediaries. Business models of incumbents in industries like banking might change entirely in order to survive the disruption created by blockchain.

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Clarity Consultants

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Here are a few thoughts on how the 10-80-10 principle can help you delegate more effectively. According to John Maxwell, the 10-80-10 principle is the key to maximizing your time and effort as a leader, and it largely involves delegation. The 10-80-10 principle is used to describe 100 percent of a project. The First 10 Percent.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 1, 2017

That’s why we have the agile values and principles. Too often, I meet people who haven’t internalized the values and haven’t read the principles. I wrote about the history of agile approaches in the first chapter of Create Your Successful Agile Project and what people might need to consider for their agile project.

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Asamby Consulting

MARCH 31, 2022

Standard Operating Procedures are the first solution to lack of processes). SOP Comes to Help At a first glance writing an SOP may look trivial, after all, you just have to write what you do every day right? Chances are you HAD to check in at the reception desk in order to get a badge that would get you through the turnstile.

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