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A Fuller Picture of Special Services: A Critique of the Big Four

Tom Spencer

The recognition is definitely not baseless. Despite this rosy picture, it is apparent that the opulence and prestige of this distinguished group of firms derives both from their overly privileged market position and conflicts of interest embedded deep within the industry. PwC held the No. PwC held the No. Conflicts of interest.

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Creating a Risk Register: All You Need to Know

Epicflow

Project management goes hand in hand with uncertainty and risks. For this reason, identifying and managing project risks gains even more importance these days: it significantly increases the chances for a project to keep afloat. . One of the important components of project risk management is creating a risk register.

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The Importance of Perspective

CaseInterview.com

It’s an insight that I shared with a few thousand CEOs during the 2008 to 2009 Great Recession. Here’s what I said: The problem is your definitional concept of the word “competitor.” It turns out that all of their sales and marketing materials were geared toward the message, “why buy from us vs. another direct competitor.”.

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Business Book Review: Start-Up Nation

Management Consulted

In fact, in 2007-2008, Israel received the highest amount of venture funding per capita, which is more than any other nation in the world. In 2008, per capita venture capital investments in Israel were 2.5 The firm’s leadership set up a meeting with eBay, who thought they were the market leaders in terms of fraud detection.

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The Importance of Perspective

CaseInterview.com

It’s an insight that I shared with a few thousand CEOs during the 2008 to 2009 Great Recession. Here’s what I said: The problem is your definitional concept of the word “competitor.” It turns out that all of their sales and marketing materials were geared toward the message, “why buy from us vs. another direct competitor.”.

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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Given the lack of a standard definition for leadership and seemingly contradictory evidence, it is no surprise you may feel skeptical. A controlled study involving leaders across different markets found a positive correlation between the leader's effectiveness and employee retention, sales, margin, labor costs, and net profit.

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We’re Facing Disruption, Too

Women in Consulting

Best practices, models, guidelines are freely available, published by experts as part of their content marketing strategies, or easily accessible online via Udacity, Udemy, LinkedIn Learning or Stanford. It’s definitely not as easy as when I first started out. Here are three reasons why: Democratization of information.

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