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The 3 Secrets of a Successful Consulting Interview Suit

Management Consulted

Everybody knows you should dress conservatively for a job interview. A straightforward interview suit is the way to go, and that goes double for a management consulting interview. We won’t assume you’ve been living under a rock and don’t know that navy blue and charcoal gray suits are your interview suit standbys.

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When Selling, Ask Questions, Rank Your Prospects … and Listen!

Emerson Consulting Group

Too often otherwise good sales reps fail because they just haven’t learned to stop talking and start listening. The objective of basic sales questions is to identify what your prospect actually wants. By asking more questions and listening even more, you can take any sales conversation to a higher level. By Ken Lizotte CMC.

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Why Write and Publish Business Articles? For 5 Good Reasons!

Emerson Consulting Group

Published articles are high-level sales tools. Retirement benefits thoughtleader Dan Cassidy makes it a practice to show up at every sales meeting with a briefcase filled with reprints of his many published articles. Sales of your book increase as a result. Publishing articles can promote your book.

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business

Through a coordinated, systemic, prolonged intervention with dozens of institutions and thousands of individual participants, new growth of the local companies we trained has directly created over 1033 jobs, fueled by dozens of new private sector financings. The average participant in the first cohort has actually doubled its sales.

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Shockingly Bad Fiscal Health of Chicago (and the Financial Engineering Chicago Uses to Hide that Fact)

MishTalk

Chicago finances are even worse than I thought which is saying quite a bit because I have written about the sorry state of Chicago finances on numerous occasion. Many of these uses of bond proceeds are not eligible for tax-exempt financing under the federal tax code." Who Is Kristi Culpepper? You should be.

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Plotting Your Career Success: Ladders Versus Expanders

Confessions of a Consultant

My lunch-buddy was making the point that this just wouldn’t happen in finance or marketing. Accountants eventually become Financial Comptrollers, then Finance Directors and so on. As part of this engagement, we’ve interviewed a range of senior executives (engineers and others) about their careers – the good, the bad and the ugly.

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Global Companies Need to Adopt Agile Pricing in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business

Given that we are expecting continued emerging market currency depreciation (and a gradual devaluation of the Chinese yuan as the Central Bank of China seeks to maintain China’s export competitiveness), this issue is going to be a significant problem for multinational corporations (MNCs) in 2017, and possibly beyond.