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Quote Your Consulting Billing Rate with Confidence

Successful Independent Consulting

There are other ways to bill for your talent and expertise but those will be covered in another article. Benchmark so you know your rate is reasonable. Talk with other consultants, do a web search on typical management consulting rates in your city or state, and/or try converting your employee salary to an hourly rate.

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The Case Against Pay Transparency

Harvard Business

While pay transparency may accelerate attention being paid to remedying pay discrimination, managers should consider moves toward transparency with their eyes wide open. It is hard to imagine a policy change that does more to place pay comparison in everyone’s face than pay transparency. But herein lies the challenge.

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How to Assess Entry-Level Product Manger Positions

Tom Spencer

Associate Product Manager (APM) positions are well known in Silicon Valley as rotational, mentorship-focused programs designed to accelerate the careers of young aspiring product managers. If you have views on on-boarding, shaping, and training young product managers, you can effectively mold these programs to fit your vision.

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Why We Need to Stop Obsessing Over CEO Pay Ratios

Harvard Business

As an analogy, baseball player Alex Rodriguez was not clearly more talented than Babe Ruth, but he was paid far more because baseball had become a much bigger, more global industry by the time he was playing. But this $1 billion provides a benchmark against which to compare the pay of $10 million, to decide whether it’s fair.

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A Look into Microsoft’s Data-Driven Approach to Improving Sales

Harvard Business

We then combined that with organizational and customer relationship management data to determine how the people selling via the cloud sales model were collaborating with their internal teams, customers, and partners. Internal and external network size in comparison with benchmarks in their local areas.

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