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How Taekwon-Do Prepared Me for Consulting Interviews

Tom Spencer

Flying leg break during a black belt test in 2016. In addition, when learning new kicks and punches, students like myself consult instructors or encyclopedias to help us perfect techniques, much like we consult videos and books when we need to learn new frameworks and methods of analysis.

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6 Organizational Culture Change Strategies

Organizational Talent Consulting

Check out this Zappos organizational culture video: [link] Keeping culture strong becomes more challenging as the organization grows. Culture Change Strategy #6: How leaders recruit, promote, and fire Who gets hired, promoted , and fired, and for what both creates and reinforces your organization's culture. Schein, E. & Schein, P.

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For Some Platforms, Network Effects Are No Match for Local Know-How

Harvard Business

In 2016 the company sold its China operation to Didi Chuxing because of the fierce competitiveness of the local player. Recruit Holdings started out in the 1960s as an advertising company that published magazines for job seekers. Today the company specializes in HR and recruitment services; among its acquisitions have been the U.S.

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Why Do Employees Stay? A Clear Career Path and Good Pay, for Starters

Harvard Business

Related Video. Learn how they do it with this 6 minute video slide deck. See More Videos > See More Videos > In a new study , Glassdoor data scientist Morgan Smart and I looked at more than 5,000 job transitions from a sample of thousands of résumés shared by job seekers on Glassdoor from 2007 to 2016.

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Shell Fires Another 10,000; Energy Layoffs Top 250,000; Oil Breaks $28 Again; In Search of Jobs

MishTalk

Operating costs have reduced by $4 billion, or around 10% in 2015, and the company expects Shell’s costs to fall again in 2016 by a further $3 billion. I think it’s going to come bite us extremely hard,” says Tobias Read, CEO of Swift Worldwide Resources, an energy recruiting firm based in Houston. But that's what created this mess.

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How Blockchain Can Help Marketers Build Better Relationships with Their Customers

Harvard Business

Related Video. See More Videos > See More Videos > Blockchain’s properties — transparency, immutability, and security — make it reliable and trustworthy for applications such as supply chain management, smart contracts, financial reporting, the Internet of Things, the management of private (e.g.,

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How Some Companies Are Making Child Care Less Stressful for Their Employees

Harvard Business

The 2016 Care Index released by the New America Foundation and Care.com shared an increasingly troubling cost profile of child care right now. These are the very same cities where employers struggle to recruit and maintain skilled talent. ” Related Video. Photo by Mike Wilson. This is not news.

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