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Six Secrets to Getting More Done with the staff you have

Peter Stark

One complaint we often hear from the leaders we work with is, “I don’t have enough staff.” Similarly, the results of over 350 Employee Opinion Surveys we have conducted tell us that only 65% of employees think their department is adequately staffed to get the job done. So, why the difference?

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5 Steps to Strategically Positioning Your Consulting

Consulting Matters

If you're a consultant who's just starting out or been at it for a while and you want to either avoid or get out of that extra pair of hands, trading time for money trap. I am so excited to share with you my secret strategies around how you position yourself as a strategic partner. They don't get our role.

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The Consultant's Role: How to Position Yourself for Maximum Influence

Consulting Matters

If you're a consultant who's just starting out or been at it for a while and you want to either avoid or get out of that extra pair of hands, trading time for money trap. I am so excited to share with you my secret strategies around how you position yourself as a strategic partner. They don't get our role.

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Is Peter Mandelson really a strategy consultant?

Tom Spencer

The Lords authorities have accepted this for over six years, although all the publicly available evidence suggests that the firm is really a public affairs consultancy. They may have done this for practical reasons. Keeping his clients secret simply encourages people to think that some of them might be embarrassing or even unethical.

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Hiring Data Scientists from Outside the U.S.: A Primer on Visas

Harvard Business

It’s no secret that there’s a shortage of data scientists in America’s workforce. Some high-volume law firms charge $500, in large part because they can outsource the work of support staff to India. Workers are cap-exempt if they held H-1B visa status for at least one day in the previous six years.

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How Good Companies Become Market Leaders (Without an Infusion of Capital): Interview with Charles Browne

Consulting Matters

The majority of my successes in my career have been in getting those two groups to kind of talk together and to take the engineering vision, and kind of bound it with the operational limitation, and make sure everybody is on the same page. Why isn’t it getting out? Like we have these, you know – whatever, right?

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A Transformation Is Underway at U.S. Veterans Affairs. We Got an Inside Look.

Harvard Business

In the end, a combination of unattainable objectives, an environment that lacked transparency, and a culture where failure was not perceived to be a viable option, led some VA administrators and clinic staff to manipulate data to make it appear as though the wait time goal was being achieved. Pursue a principles-based organization.

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