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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

In 2001, Michael hired a no-name like me after an informational interview to become the Associate Marketing Director for GIA Publications. He entrusted me to craft my own job, manage my own way of doing things, and develop and refine systems for various marketing jobs, from trade show exhibits to catalog publishing.

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An Ex-Consultant’s Jump into the Start Up World

Management Consulted

He co-founded MobileSuites, an app that puts travel concierge services and hotel information at your fingertips, and which you can (and should) find and sign-up for here. I started at Yale in 2008. We talked to hotel managers and front office staff. Yeah, definitely. So, we did a little bit of digging.

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Save Lives vs. Save the Economy

CaseInterview.com

Prior to 2008, the financial sector grew way beyond enabling the rest of the economy. In the months after the stock market crash of 2008, many of those rocket scientists were laid off. The month before the crash of 2008, Las Vegas (which had a wildly speculative residential real estate market) had 40,000 mortgage brokers.

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3 Steps to Cultivate an Innovation Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

A financial services company engaged in investment banking and capital markets estimated the customer benefit of the Space X Falcon 9 reusable rocket. Market Culture creates a competitive, fast-paced, results-oriented environment. Benchmarking in the process of creating a culture of innovation in hotel companies. Hjeltnes, A.,

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How to Get Beyond Paralysis by Analysis

The Fearless Marketer

My internal dialog started in 2008 when I decided to write another book to help me market my services. It was a perfect strategy for killing my marketing creativity. Feel free to substitute a marketing project you are resisting as I coach myself back to taking action. Let me think about it for awhile.” Not necessarily.

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Great Depression 2020?

CaseInterview.com

For context, I asked this exact same question in October 2008 at the start of the Great Recession. Now, let me elaborate on why, despite coronavirus, a drastic drop in many consumer sectors, and stock market values plummeting, I don’t think we will have another Great Depression. We were extremely close to a great depression in 2008.

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How to Decide Which Conferences Are Worth Your Time

Harvard Business

In 2008, less than two years after starting my marketing strategy consultancy, I took a leap of faith. When my planned housing fell through one year, all the downtown hotels were booked, and I was forced to stay at a terrifying motel off the highway with a cracked window on my ground-level unit.