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Why Travel and Living Abroad Prepare You for Consulting

Tom Spencer

Have you ever felt guilty about travelling extensively? Have you ever wished that the money spent traveling could somehow pay dividends? Well, I believe it can pay dividends, so you shouldn’t feel guilty about your past and future travel. But travelling also nurtures and requires key traits that are present in a good consultant.

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L.E.K. Strategy Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

CONSULTING INTERVIEWS & CULTURE . Aviation & Travel. CONSULTING CULTURE . are the amount of responsibility Consultant level hires are given from the get go and the low amount of travel their employees do. With regard to travel requirements, L.E.K is very unusual in that it is a very low travel firm.

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A.T. Kearney Interview & Culture

Management Consulted

KEARNEY INTERVIEW AND CULTURE. Their focus is on: structure and governance, processes, technology enablement, resource configuration and capabilities and culture. Transportation & Travel. Summer Associates are given the opportunity to travel as they will be stationed both at client sites and in the office. Technology.

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Brews, News and Booz & Company: Interview and Culture Insights

Management Consulted

Booz & Company Interview and Culture. Where prestige, pay, exit opportunities and culture are concerned, Booz & Company ranks number 4 behind MBB. Early on, he wrote many articles about his real passion of “taking the measure” on business problems. BOOZ & COMPANY CULTURE. We want you to nail it. Linksbridge.

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The Hidden Benefits of Short-Term Business Travel

Harvard Business

As we move from one hotel chain to another and order the same Starbucks drink in London that we do in Shanghai or Tokyo, it can feel like just another business trip as opposed to a personally meaningful cross-cultural adventure. First, traveling abroad can build your confidence. Managing Across Cultures. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic.

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How to Get Better at Reading People from Different Cultures

Harvard Business

Body language varies significantly across cultures. But what remains consistent across all known cultures are microexpressions. People might try to hide or obscure them in different ways informed by culture, but to a practiced reader the true emotions are always visible. Working Across Cultures. You and Your Team Series.

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Social Hierarchy

CaseInterview.com

When you’re immersed in a culture (an ethnic culture, a regional culture, an industry culture, a company culture, a family culture, a marital culture), it is very easy to believe that the social hierarchy in that culture is the way things work. that you’re somehow "less" than others.