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

Harmonious Workplaces

In 1999, rock-and-roll legend Rikk promoted me within six months from sales associate and drum department head at Sam Ash Music to Operations Manager, where I not only led a warehouse crew, but I became the regional trainer on an Oracle-based POS system at the age of 23. That’s a lot of bending!

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The Challenges GM Is Facing, and the Reasoning Behind Its Plant Closures

Harvard Business

While the job losses are a terrible blow to those workers and the families they support and the local economies where the factories are located, the decision could prevent the kind of crisis that resulted in it seeking bankruptcy protection in 2009 and a $50 billion bailout by the U.S. Car sales in the U.S. government.

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The Mindset That Wins Consulting Work With Fortune 500 Companies with Mindy Millward: Podcast #24

Consulting Success

We have a set of consultants who work with us off and on since 2009 or 2008, that we would pull in when we’ve all of a sudden sold too much work. For most of those large firms, an add-on is, “Can we get a change management person in here and on the team too? Click To Tweet. How do you do that?

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KPMG Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Sales and Marketing. Business Process Management. Change Management. OpRisk’s Top 2 overall in Consultancy Rankings (2009). Information Technology. Innovation and Engineering. Procurement Advisory. Supply Chain and Operations. Other Operations. Functions: Analytics. Business Integration. Business Intelligence.

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

Harvard Business

billion, its budget in 2015 was slightly higher than the total gross sales of General Motors. For example, Scott Blackburn, an Army veteran and former McKinsey & Company partner was paired with Chief of Staff Robert Snyder, who joined VA in 2009 after a 26-year career in the Army, to lead the transformation and reorganization initiative.

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