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Consultant Ninja: Signs of Crunch Time: Management Consulting Blog

Consultant Ninja

Countdown metric unit shrinking. ["96 Client timeline shortening. Lets shoot for a Wednesday draft"] Partner involvement growing. ["I I havent seen a deck in a while. Can you please send the most recent version over?"] 96 hours until were done."] Cursing off the chart. ["f**k." damn, why doesnt that add up?"] Car rental abuse appearing.

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Crafting an Effective Sales Strategy: A Blueprint for Success

LSA Global

Define Clear Sales Objectives and Success Metrics An effective sales strategy begins with clearly defined sales objectives that serve as guiding beacons throughout the journey. Only invest time and resources with clients that appreciate and need what you have to offer.

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Mental Energy Units

CaseInterview.com

When you’re an individual contributor, you focus mainly on time management. As you progress in your professional career (and as your personal life gets more complex, such as raising multiple children or caring for aging parents), it makes sense to optimize your life around a different kind of metric. There are 24 hours in a day.

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Solve Your Project Problems in Less Time

PM Alliance

Your controls process must be working well, and your team needs a unified methodology to ensure everyone knows how to translate the metrics and other data coming in from stakeholders. It’s imperative that you have tools in place to identify problems quickly. Before moving into troubleshooting mode, you need to assess the true risks.

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Project Management: Dealing with Scarcity

PM Alliance

These factors often leave your team little time to react and adjust. To overcome time scarcities, your team should maintain good awareness into your project’s status, risk profile, budget, and other key metrics.

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A Refresher on A/B Testing

Harvard Business

To better understand what A/B testing is, where it originated, and how to use it, I spoke with Kaiser Fung, who founded the applied analytics program at Columbia University and is author of Junk Charts , a blog devoted to the critical examination of data and graphics in the mass media. The second mistake is looking at too many metrics.

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