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(Value Stream) Map Your Way to a Better Post-Covid Future

Markovitz Consulting

Selling and merchandising Value stream mapping revealed an additional drag on the company: the sales process. As with most companies, the sales team would take dress samples on the road to visit accounts. COVID travel restrictions made those customer visits impossible. Originally posted 9/29/20 in Industry Week magazine.

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15 Best Business Podcasts for Independent Consultants

Tsavo Neal

Podcasts make amazing listening material for commutes, travel, and listening for when you don’t feel like taking out a book. The show also features experts providing advice on topics such as insurance, contracts, travel, use of LinkedIn, and daily routines. Sales for Nerds by Reuben Shwartz. Magazine Contributor John Nemo!

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Brews, News and Booz & Company: Interview and Culture Insights

Management Consulted

With such an impressive list of early clients (including the United States of America), it is no wonder that by the end of the 1950s, Time Magazine dubbed Booz Allen Hamilton the “world’s largest, most prestigious management consulting firms.” They keep a strong emphasis on research and quarterly produce a magazine, strategy + business.

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How to Find the Grit Passion for Winning at Business and Life: Interview with Dave Saliaris

Consulting Matters

I worked in a company for a long period of time, over 30 years, in various roles so it was like I had moved through various different jobs; traveled all over the world at a very high level position of a global vice president role; 250 people globally working for me, those kind of things. Dave Saliaris : Yeah, pretty interesting.

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Gallup Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

As a young man, he conducted the first national survey of major magazines to see what ads were successful in attracting the most attention. Unlike other firms, there is not that much traveling necessary – because Gallup conducts so much primary analysis, they are relying less on internal data for client firms. Interview Prep.

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How to Find the Grit Passion for Winning at Business and Life: Interview with Dave Saliaris

Consulting Matters

I worked in a company for a long period of time, over 30 years, in various roles so it was like I had moved through various different jobs; traveled all over the world at a very high level position of a global vice president role; 250 people globally working for me, those kind of things. Dave Saliaris : Yeah, pretty interesting.

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7 Strategies to get a Business Owner to open up

ConsultX

It’s a sales influence tactic for them to work with us. I looked around his office, his waiting room, and I saw a travel magazine on his desk with a photo of Rarotonga or a one-page spread of Rarotonga open. Those notes will also come in handy later on because what they say is what they believe.