Tom Spencer

JANUARY 27, 2018

Top-tier consulting firms are notorious for two or three-year up or out policies, and poor work-life balance. Before getting into the tips, I remind you that your personal life is more important than being a good consultant. And good consultants minimise the trade-off. And good consultants minimise the trade-off.

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Consulting Success

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Multiply and protect your income streams by expanding your skills, expertise, and presence in the consulting world. She is a marketing strategy consultant, professional speaker, and frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review. Dorie currently splits her time between teaching, consulting, and writing.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 26, 2019

It is an approach I developed that is tailored for answering these questions in job interviews for management consulting, as well as interviews for senior executive positions in industry. It can be used by candidates to prepare concise and powerful answers to commonly asked consulting resume questions. What did you do?

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Management Consulted

APRIL 11, 2016

Today we take a look at a boutique consulting firm you may not have heard of, The Brattle Group. Consulting Firms, ranking 7th overall. In fact, The Brattle Group founders we convinced that by getting the firm culture just right, consulting could be the most fun way to make money. THE BRATTLE GROUP ORGANIZATION.

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The Management Centre

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Delegation provides your team with learning opportunities, development projects, balances workload and gives room for new insights. As a manager though you may be reluctant to overload people, to let go of tasks that you enjoy, or to invest the time in showing someone the ropes. How signed up are they to the task?

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Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2018

Young management consultants may be novices, but they’re sold as experts. Conversely, even experienced consultants, who legitimately present themselves as experts, still feel like novices when they embark on a new project. How do consultants overcome it? Consultancy Work Is a Performance.

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LSA Global

JULY 17, 2020

If you are looking for real behavior change from your sales force (and you should), you need to change your view of sales training from a one-time event to an ongoing change process. How B2B Selling Has Changed. How B2B Selling Has Changed. A Special Note about How B2B Sales Have Changed during COVID-19.

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Successful Independent Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2020

As independent consultants, we’ve all worked remotely to some extent but now we are working virtually 100%. To complicate things further, many of our clients are learning how to work virtually for the first time and they may misperceive “checking in” as a waste of time and/or something they don’t want to pay for.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

” Judging by the headlines and opening lines of recent articles and business books, digital is about to disrupt your industry and you with it – unless you act now (and buy the book). .” This means that the more users and content-providers you sign up, the better the business model will work.

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Successful Independent Consulting

AUGUST 18, 2021

As independent consultants, we’ve all probably worked remotely to some extent but as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, it appears that working virtually will like be part of the “new normal.” To complicate things further for consultants, clients may misperceive “checking in” as a waste of time and/or something they don’t want to pay for.

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Harvard Business

MAY 2, 2018

It’s smart to have strong relationships with both your boss and your boss’s boss, but when there’s conflict between the two of them, you’re often in a tough spot. Should you align yourself with the person who has the most influence over your job and career? “You feel stuck in the middle.”

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This just in: doing what everyone expects of you is OUT, doing what what makes you happy is IN. After hearing that still small voice that she attributes to God, she took the leap into full-time acting and landed roles in productions like One Tree Hill, Gifted, We are the Millers and many other roles. Take Action.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2017

At some point in your career, even if you’re not a salesperson, you’re going to have to sell something — whether it’s your idea , your team, or yourself. So how can you improve your sales skills, especially if you don’t pitch people often? What should you focus on first?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Successful professionals get them all the time: plaintive emails from long-ago colleagues, or college friends — or even those friends’ adult children — seeking “an hour of your time” or a chance to “pick your brain” or an offer to “buy you a cup of coffee.” Networking.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Control, even a perception of it, can be comforting. Control feels essential—especially if you are the boss. Companies as large as Michelin and Carrefour are questioning their control structures and seeing real results from replacing them. When a new project comes in, the manager does not devise a plan to complete it.

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Tsavo Neal

JULY 10, 2020

With your skills, you have everything you need to make *your own* website the best website for your freelance business. That’s the perfect stack to build your own website that attracts clients for you. Instead, I want them to come to me. Let your website do that for you! Don’t bother with freelance websites.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

How empowered should employees be to alter or ignore an algorithmically generated decision? How empowered should employees be to alter or ignore an algorithmically generated decision? How and when should formulas be adjusted or altered? HBR: You are both cheerleaders for algorithms. You and Your Team Series.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 3, 2018

A little patience and a lot of value are all it takes to prove your high-dollar consulting worth. The Secret to Landing Six-Figure Consulting Projects with Dauwn Parker. Thank you, Michael. Why don’t we start off and just have you tell everyone who don’t know you and what you’re up to what it is that you do?

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 13, 2017

So how do you tell your boss you simply have too much to do? How can you protect your image as a hard worker while saying uncle? No matter how busy you are , it can feel exceedingly difficult to talk to your boss about your heavy workload. ’ So you suffer in silence.”

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

You have an ambitious team member who’s asking to be promoted to manager. How do you judge his skills and experience? As a manager, you’re always on the lookout for the next generation of talent in your organization. “Say, ‘Do you want to be in management? What the Experts Say.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Many high performing sales teams learn from sales losses and projects that go awry. Most experienced sales leaders and coaches are adept at post-loss reviews and uncovering what went wrong to improve future close rates. The First Step after a Sales Win – Learn! How close did they fit your target client profile?

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Epicflow

MARCH 22, 2023

How can companies save costs and at the same become more profitable and competitive during the crisis? They include: Laying off employees, Reducing salaries/wages, Closing facilities, Moving to a smaller office or a less expensive area, Minimizing or refusing outside professional services, and more. [1] Let’s delve into the issue.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

You can’t figure out your boss. Sometimes he’s really chummy and personable; other times he belittles you in front of the team. How do you handle a manager who acts like Jekyll and Hyde? Should you address the situation with him, especially if you think it will bring out the bully?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 9, 2018

Burberry set out to be the world’s best digital luxury brand, but performance began to suffer after initially improving. How did these smart, experienced leaders make decisions that don’t look so smart in hindsight? Yagi Studios/Getty Images. Some performance indicators, including service margins, began to improve.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

But when you look more deeply into whether those organizations are truly redefining what they are and what they do, stories of successful change efforts are exceptionally rare. Before describing those, let’s look at how we identified the exceptional firms that rose to the top of our ranking, a group we call the Transformation 10.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 23, 2017

It’s a given that you want your boss’s trust. But what if your boss shares things he shouldn’t, trusting that you will be more discreet than he? Maybe he tells you information you shouldn’t know about your peers. What should you do when your boss is indiscreet? What the Experts Say.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Members of Afghanistan’s poorly trained armed forces on Tuesday were reportedly struggling to hold on in the face of a determined rebel push that saw them seize the town’s police headquarters. It is dear and important to them.” Taliban Poised to Retake Sangin The Financial Times reports Taliban Poised to Retake Sangin from Afghan Army.

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Tsavo Neal

APRIL 27, 2017

Do you judge people strictly by their actions — or by how they dress and present themselves? Do you judge a business based solely on their level of service — or by how their website looks? Would you go and meet a prospective client wearing basketball shorts and sandles? SOURCE: Social Talent.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2018

A little over a year ago, a high-performing specialist at one of the largest technologies companies — we’ll call him Santiago — was given an opportunity no high performer could turn down: an opportunity to play a manager role on a project he really cared about. The director told him, “You care about this; you lead it.”

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 13, 2019

What you will learn: Learn the basics of a case interview – what it is, how they are different from a regular job interview, who uses them, why they are used, and the types of case interview formats and the difference between them. You have to describe how you would potentially treat this particular patient.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JULY 27, 2012

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Jack Sherwood , another well-known and experienced Lewin/Lippitt consultant, taught me about action research and how to actually BE an OD consultant in ‘the Lewinian way’. Translate This. Library Blogs Home. This Blogs Home. Kurt Lewin.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Field Report: Just a brief note to say thank you for your emails. By far, the most valuable thing (for me) was the insight into the mindset of consultants and interviewers, which is what your emails provided. This allows you to do what is the most important thing, as emphasised in your most recent email: be yourself, be likeable.

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MishTalk

JULY 14, 2013

How Public Employee Unions are Bankrupting the Nation. You Walk Away Blog. Global Economic. Trend Analysis. Advertisers. Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts. Featured Links. GoldMoney: The Best Way to Buy Gold & Silver. Dollar Collapse News on the Dollar's Death Spiral. Minyanville Business and Market News. Home Builders. Urban Digs.

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Confessions of a Consultant

JULY 1, 2018

‘How not to’ allocate business! Indulge me this week as you take a 5-minute executive break! Avoiding Decoys: In the bad old days of consulting, the focus was on avoiding decoys. Avoiding Decoys: In the bad old days of consulting, the focus was on avoiding decoys. Grab attention. Make the point.

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Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2021

Our team is made up of highly-skilled, senior-level consultants from a wide range of backgrounds—educators at top universities, serial entrepreneurs, former C-suite executives, and seasoned process consulting experts. The book that shows how to get the job done and deliver results. 31 books on leadership and change.

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