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Transitioning from Management Consulting to Corporate Strategy/M&A – the Interview Process

Tom Spencer

Interviews. After going through a handful of interviews through referrals, direct reach out from HR/hiring team, and LinkedIn/company website applications I would categorize my interviews into three buckets: Corporate strategy. In terms of the interview process it followed the following steps: HR interview (fit).

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The one thing about fulfilling your potential that almost nobody knows

The Fearless Marketer

Of course, joy is essential to living. These skills (resilience, emotional intelligence, spiritual intelligence) are career and leadership skills that the mainstream is only starting to recognize and implement in training. In any case, if you’re going to feel uncomfortable, why not make the discomfort worthwhile?

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” As an aspiring PM, there are three primary considerations when evaluating the role: Core Competencies , Emotional Intelligence (EQ), and Company Fit. Emotional Intelligence (EQ).

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Younger and Older Executives Need Different Things from Coaching

Harvard Business

Our data included executives’ scores on personality and emotional intelligence assessments, interviews with their managers and HR, and our case notes. In each case, one of us served as the executive coach and worked with the executive to set their individual goals.

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How to Know If Someone Is Ready to Be a Manager

Harvard Business

How to Get the Most Out of an Informational Interview. who agrees that emotional intelligence is what he looked for in a new management hire. And if that’s the case, you want your decision to hire or promote them to be a successful one. You and Your Team Series. Career Transitions. Is It Time to Quit Your Job?

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What Self-Awareness Really Is (and How to Cultivate It)

Harvard Business

Conducting in depth interviews with 50 people who’d dramatically improved their self-awareness to learn about the key actions that helped them get there, as well as their beliefs and practices. The highly self-aware people we interviewed were actively focused on balancing the scale. But this doesn’t have to be the case.

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Why HR Should Have a Seat at the Crisis Management Table

Melissa Agnes

It’s also one of the top concerns that I hear over and over again when I sit down with a new client and interview their heads of departments. Calling a meeting with management and making this case is usually all it takes (unless of course there’s another reason as to why you don’t already have that seat).