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Winning Isn’t Everything: The Art of Playing Well

Tom Spencer

This idea has been echoed by some of the most influential figures in the business and finance world, including Professor Michael Porter, Michael Lewis, and Warren Buffett. Sustainable long term success should be defined not by the immediate outcome of your actions, but by the journey and the principles that you uphold along the way.

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The Paths of Consultancy

Tom Spencer

Through sheer desire (and a strong talent for analytics), he achieved a top spot in an industry with no room for the gangly and physically lacking among us. By accepting graduates from a broad range of majors consultancy is a field full of a diverse range of talent. Consultancy has the power to open doors where no doors are present.

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Consultant Ninja: The Curious Case of Equity Private, Part II.

Consultant Ninja

Additionally, it seems that her stint at DealBreaker, finance snark-central, has come to an end. Question 1: What compels someone as talented, as motivated, as professionally successful as Equity Private to invest such a huge volume of time in such a narrow pastime as tearing other people down via snark? Tuesday, September 1, 2009.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

When I started out in the program, I quickly realized I was never cut out for finance or accounting. As my finance study partner once told me, rising water rises with everything else – and that is why I want to get into ‘Consulting’.” Neither did I have the communication skills to make it as a salesman.

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Strategy and general business consulting firms in Australia

Tom Spencer

Accenture offers management consulting services covering finance & performance management, talent & organisation performance, strategy, customer relationship management, and supply chain management. July 31, 2008 at 7:06 am. October 17, 2008 at 3:40 am. October 23, 2008 at 9:53 am. Founded in 1926, A.T.

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How to Get on the Shortlist for the C-Suite

Harvard Business

One CFO I know managed finance for a spin-off firm when it went public and then returned to the parent company in a corporate position. Another CFO led finance for multiple units so he could gain a breadth of knowledge across the business before becoming the corporate CFO.

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Paying Skilled Workers More Would Create More Skilled Workers

Harvard Business

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, there was a lively debate among policy makers and academics about whether a similar gap “ between the skills workers have and the skills businesses say they need ” contributed to the increase in unemployment. The labor force adjusted to a new technology replacing an older one.