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

Harmonious Workplaces

In 1999, rock-and-roll legend Rikk promoted me within six months from sales associate and drum department head at Sam Ash Music to Operations Manager, where I not only led a warehouse crew, but I became the regional trainer on an Oracle-based POS system at the age of 23. What a funny place to find wisdom — a hotel lobby shop!

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

Compensation and benefits are on par to the market, but not adjusted for NYC living (so for take-home pay you might be better off in Atlanta or Dallas as a young McKinseyite, unless the magnetic draw to the Big Apple is just too much). EY Consulting. The office at NYC has grown quite a bit the past ~7 years.

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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. The sales and marketing director said he was receiving complaints about sloppy service. Later, he privately told me he was thinking of leaving the hotel. And something was wrong.

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KPMG Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Though not as aggressive, creative or flamboyant as MBB or perhaps even its Big 4 competitors, KPMG is a huge force in the consulting market and not one to be taken lightly. Butler, the new CEO of the US arm, indicated he would strengthen its consultancy services, a market he saw as filled with potential, and offer new services.

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How to Talk to Strangers and Enjoy It

CaseInterview.com

As an experiment, I invited a few dozen CIBs, 1Y, 2Y to a last-minute, impromptu Q&A session in the lobby of my hotel. I was hoping 5 people would show up, but when close to 30 did, the hotel kicked us out. Q: Do you know what the campus recruiting schedule is for this year? Lesson learned.). new clients). A: 2 years.

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How to Navigate a Digital Transformation

Harvard Business

In today’s market, tech platforms enable IP and relationships to scale rapidly, and at near-zero cost. We’ve seen how dramatically digital platforms have upended long-established industries across the spectrum from hotels (Airbnb and VRBO) to music (Apple and Pandora) to recruiting (LinkedIn) to retail (Wayfair and Amazon).

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What Platforms Do Differently than Traditional Businesses

Harvard Business

Instead, they recruit participants, and then sell each group of participants access to the other group of participants. Then there are all the ad-supported media that troll for eyeballs so they can sell them to marketers. Airbnb, which seems to have come out of nowhere, is challenging the global hotel industry.