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Just How Bad Is Business Travel for Your Health? Here’s the Data.

Harvard Business

I went with the pizza, but my lack of choices was annoying — so much so that, when I got home, I started looking into the data on health and travel for work. According to the Global Business Travel Association and American Express , Americans took more than 500 million domestic business trips in 2016.

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Is More Effective Training the Answer?

LSA Global

More Effective Training Creates More Effective Performance. Some blame low morale (TSA ranked 303 rd out of 305 government agencies in 2016). Three Requirements for More Effective Training. We have a hunch that ineffective training is part of the problem. The Bottom Line – Is Training the Answer?

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How Taekwon-Do Prepared Me for Consulting Interviews

Tom Spencer

Flying leg break during a black belt test in 2016. I have been training for over seventeen years now. While preparing, I must perfect my techniques, adjust my weight for my sparring category, strengthen my hands and feet for board breaking, and fundraise for travel costs. As a result, I won my match against my German competitor.

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The Year at a Glance

Chad Barr

Traveled the world, met some amazing people, and attended some outstanding growth developmental experiences. Help our clients create thousands of pieces of remarkable content and products such as eBooks , subscription services , video books and online training , by leveraging our Creating Global Digital Empires® service.

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Robot Taxis Starting 2016 in Japan; Self-Driving Trucks on German Autobahn; Millions of Truck and Taxi Driver Jobs will Vanish in US by 2025

MishTalk

Robot Taxis Starting 2016 in Japan The Wall Street Journal reports RoboCab: Driverless Taxi Experiment to Start in Japan From the country where hotels are operated by robots and androids serve as clerks at department stores comes the latest unmanned project: the robot cab. Reader Alain writes. " But here we are. But here we are.

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Conversation with A.T. Kearney

Tom Spencer

Tom: What kind of training and mentoring can graduates expect to receive at A.T. We have a series of formal and informal training sessions which consultants must join as part of their development – certainly the formal training. Kearney’s travel model? Kearney: 40-50 hour weeks, depending on project-needs. Tom: Does A.T.

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Conversation with L.E.K. Consulting

Tom Spencer

Tom: What kind of training and mentoring can graduates expect to receive at LEK? This involves a high caliber professional development program which includes formal technical training as well as on-the-job learning experiences. The life of a management consultant is certainly a busy one and often involves travel.