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Quote Your Consulting Billing Rate with Confidence

Successful Independent Consulting

Benchmark so you know your rate is reasonable. Although rate information is a closely guarded secret, based on my 20 years in the industry here are very rough ballpark numbers for “management consulting” (not IT consulting, project management, training development, etc.). Remember, even your higher rate will be cheaper in comparison.)

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BCG Potential Test Copy

CaseInterview.com

This test allows BCG to test candidates using the same test giving them a better comparison tool for evaluating candidate performance. This tool compares your math accuracy and speed to other CaseInterview.com members and to my own test results as benchmark. What is the format of this Test? First Name *.

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4 Self-Improvement Myths That May Be Holding You Back

Harvard Business

Add in speeches, training programs, TV programs, online-products, coaches, yoga, and the like, self-help is a $10 billion industry per year , and that’s just in the U.S. Myth 2: We get better by benchmarking ourselves against others. HBR staff/Bettmann Collection/Getty Images. It accounts for about 2.5%

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How to Assess Entry-Level Product Manger Positions

Tom Spencer

If you have views on on-boarding, shaping, and training young product managers, you can effectively mold these programs to fit your vision. There is no clear benchmark for which category a given company falls into. On the other hand, being a part of a novice APM program gives you the chance to build something new.

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Why We Need to Stop Obsessing Over CEO Pay Ratios

Harvard Business

Research shows that, after salary reaches a (relatively low) level, workers value nonpecuniary factors more highly, such as on-the-job training, flexible working conditions, and opportunities for advancement. 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 Guide to Solving Social Problems with Machine Learning

Harvard Business

We trained our algorithms to predict the overall crime rate for the defendents eligible for bail. In bail, it turns out that different forms of crime are correlated enough so that an algorithm trained on just one type of crime winds up out-predicting judges on almost every measure of criminality we could construct, including violent crime.

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