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Achieving Startup Success via Product-Market Fit

Tom Spencer

Others have developed theories to explain why businesses fail and what criteria distinguishes successful founders from unsuccessful ones. While this idea is appealing and no doubt has some truth to it, it has led many entrepreneurs to develop, fund, and launch products that ultimately fail.

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How Smart Speakers Are Poised to Reinvent the Travel Industry

Harvard Business

Marriott recently teamed up with Amazon to offer a hospitality version of the e-commerce giant’s Echo devices in select hotel rooms. Travelers with an Alexa device at home can book a car rental or hotel through Expedia and Kayak. People can even book flights through voice-enabled Google Search. Adopting AI.

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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

This includes not only commercial airlines, but also cargo planes and military aircraft. Most commercial airlines contain two engines, while cargo planes and some military craft generally require four or more (common engines for these large-scale aerospace vehicles include PW JT9D-7R4G2 engines, GE CF6-80C2B1, or RR RB211-524D4 engines ).

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Recruiting versus reality

Tom Spencer

You’ll get great learning and development opportunities”. It’s hard to match the learning and development opportunities in consulting. This is supported by comprehensive formal and informal feedback cycles, from regular reviews for career development and promotion, to on-the-job learning direct from your teams.

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Manufactured Spend and Other Stupid Games, or, "I’ve Got A Real Job"

The Crazy Lives of Consultants

Constant business travelers like me spend lots of time studying the nuances of “loyalty” programs. We make sure we maximize our airline and hotel status, we have a wallet full of credit cards, and we pick our travel providers accordingly. For us, it’s all about minimizing the horrors of travel. I want benefits.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants: The Client is Always Wrong

The Crazy Lives of Consultants

I once admitted to the clients main point of contact that, until that meeting, I had never even heard of the product I was developing requirements for! Once youre gray enough, you can plead ignorance to almost anything and still get the gig! Never mind that I knew it pretty well; I just wanted to see what hed do! Consultantese. (8).

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants: The Next Time You're Asked for a.

The Crazy Lives of Consultants

While I cannot tell the difference between Diet Coke, Coke Zero and Diet Coke with Splenda, I have a developed a customized artificial neural network to discriminate between Lindsay Lohan, Hillary Duff, and Brittany Murphy (who are otherwise indistinguishable). Consultantese. (8). Consultants who are easily offended. (12). consulting. (9).