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Five Housing Headwinds; Mortgage Originations Lowest Since 2010; Refinancible Loan Percentage Collapses; Payment Shock

MishTalk

Origination Volume Lowest Since 2010 Refi Activity Collapses with Rising Rates 2013 Best Vintage on Record Home Equity Loans Up Refinancible Loan Percentage Collapses Payment Shock on HELOCs Key Takeaways Performance on 2013 origination is at record highs because of record low interest rates coupled with rising home values.

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Want a Data-Driven Organization? Start with Your Talent Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

Talent management decisions can be viewed as a more subtle nuance to culture change because decisions are influenced by explicitly stated criteria and unstated value priorities. Management Science, 60 (6), 1452-1469. Culture Lever #6 : How leaders recruit, promote, and excommunicate. Daholstrom, P., Wiesinger, A., & Harris, J.

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Purchasing Managers Have a Lead Role to Play in Cyber Defense

Harvard Business

There is a crying need for companies to enlist their supply chain management departments in the fight against cyberattackers. firms in 2017 were launched through the IT systems of suppliers or other third parties such as contractors, up from less than one-quarter of attacks in 2010. Hold supply managers accountable.

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Consultant Ninja: Signs of Crunch Time: 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. priorities: work, call wife, sleep, eat, in decreasing order] Project Manager irritability rising. Countdown metric unit shrinking. ["96 Management Consulting.

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7 Data-Driven Characteristics of Teams that make Better Decisions

Organizational Talent Consulting

A good working definition of what it means to embrace data-driven decision-making is: Using facts extracted from data and metrics to guide business decisions that support business goals rather than relying on experience, intuition, and stories alone. Pay attention to metrics that matter and provide regular updates. Organization design.

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Friday Fusion: August 21, 2020

Tsavo Neal

Here’s the resume format I used to earn my first job in tech as a product manager in 20 days — as a History major, nonetheless! I wrote and designed websites to help businesses exceed their KPIs — improving metrics like conversion rate, session duration, bounce rate, search engine optimization, page speed, and mobile responsiveness.

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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

While working with a large Forbes Top 25 Private Company, we quantified the value of leadership using internal key business metrics and various cognitive and behavioral leader assessments. Journal of Management, 14(3), 453-464. Journal of Management Research, 1(4), 254. Collins, J. HarperBusiness. Dhar, U., & Eisenbeiss, S.,