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Navigating a Downturn: Strategies for Business Resilience

Tom Spencer

Adopt Conservative Financial Management Maintaining the financial health of a business is paramount if one hopes to thrive during periods of economic challenge. For example, during the 2008 financial crisis Microsoft used its large cash reserves to continue investing in software development and R&D, which has paid off in the long run.

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Are Your Values Worth the Paper They’re Printed On?

Markovitz Consulting

And clearly, the stress is exponentially worse for companies in industries like travel and leisure that aren’t thriving in the current environment. When the firm lost 30% of its orders overnight in 2008, the CEO asked everyone to take a month off without pay, rather than laying off one-third of the workforce. Toyota does.

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Consultant Ninja: Classic Consulting Quotes: Management.

Consultant Ninja

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Job manager, upon seeing a slide I made: "Are you color blind, by the way?" Management Consulting. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Consultant Ninja. True story.

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Consultant Ninja: Future Histories: Management Consulting Blog

Consultant Ninja

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Typical of its down-to-earth management ethos, NetApp early on ditched a travel policy a dozen ­pages long in favor of this maxim: "We are a frugal company.

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Short blogging break plus preview of what’s coming up at Management Consulted

Management Consulted

Hi readers: I hate to pause the blog train, but for the next few days I will be traveling and enjoying the last moments of 2008. Subscribe to my RSS feed here to learn more about management consulting jobs. Get the Management Consulted email newsletter: We offer resume editing and interview prep.

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Consultant Ninja: Pity the Poor Honduran Army: Management.

Consultant Ninja

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. I remember in my undergrad days reading in the school paper about these students who spent their summer traveling all over the US protesting various causes. Consultant Ninja.

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Management Consulted

&quot, Plus around tricky global financial moments, spreading a economical stress which includes a spouse6 normally requires the responsibility out of this business that they are the only real professional, &quot, the woman reported.

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