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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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Virtual Coaching is Inevitable but is it Effective?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Affordability improves through reduced travel and associated time out of the office costs. An excellent virtual coach has the ability to: Operate the tools and functions of collaborative technology. Manage and provide support on how to use the technology and interact effectively. References: Ahrend, G., Diamond, F., &

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Book Review – “How the mighty fall” by Jim Collins

Tom Spencer

UB Group may not have lost its passion for brewing, but it was compelled to divert most of its energies towards its secondary flywheel, airlines, which diluted management focus. Mallya brought in a new CEO in October 2010, Sanjay Aggarwal, who had managed to turn things around for SpiceJet, another aviation company. Conclusion.

Airlines 101
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Altman Vilandrie: Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

After working on the management team at CSMG, a boutique global communications, technology and digital media consulting firm (now Cartesian) Rory Altman formed the company with Ed Vilandrie in 2002. The New York office was opened in 2010 and the San Francisco office was opened in 2012. Did you get all of that? This one is for you.

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A Commercial Pilot’s 2-Year Plan to Break into Consulting

Management Consulted

in business, clearly have a love for aviation and were a professional in the aviation industry from 2006 to 2010. What was happening between 2010 and 2012? I was using that time to transition into a project management role in media. What were you doing in between 2010, potentially even prior to 2010 to April 2012.

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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business

Prior to 2010, Rakuten had been a multilingual global company. What’s more, the subsidiaries operated more or less autonomously, each with separate organizational cultures and norms. But in 2010, Rakuten mandated an English-only policy for its workforce of over 10,000 employees. It consists of five key actions.

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Return of the Buggy Whip; Streetcar Named Imprudent

MishTalk

At the peak of streetcar travel in the mid-1920s, some 800 streetcars covering 200 miles of track carried 97 million passenger trips a year. Tucson''s $196 million Sun Link Streetcar Project, recently named the Public Works Project of the Year by the American Public Works Association, will operate on a 3.9-mile Louis received a $24.99