Confessions of a Consultant

AUGUST 12, 2018

Management consulting can be likened to a ‘fashion business’, in the sense that new ideas fall in and out of vogue all the time. Talent Wars : As the ‘war for talent’ increases, there’s emerging evidence of systematic poaching, in some cases encouraged by headhunters who make a living from ‘executive churn’.Don’t You get hired.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Thankfully, everything stayed in a nice orderly fashion, the way accountants like it, after the audit portrayed Peat Marwick in a favorable light. This was done in the hopes of developing specialists with certain areas of expertise which would then lead to new clients and high-paying tax and consulting jobs. In 1996, Stephen G.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2018

Developing and validating a seven factor, multi-rater assessment of self-awareness , because our review of the research didn’t identify any strong, well-validated, comprehensive measures. Three findings in particular stood out, and are helping us develop practical guidance for how leaders can learn to see themselves more clearly. #1:

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Developing what we call an “M&A strategy for talent” is one way to overcome this. “Technically, cars today are very different from ten years ago,” says Sällström, whom we interviewed for our book, Talent Wins. He was creative and, in some cases, counterintuitive.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 17, 2017

See More Videos > See More Videos > In order to understand how firms have systematically enhanced trust in applied AI, my colleagues Monika Hengstler and Selina Duelli and I conducted nine case studies in the transportation and medical device industries.

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Prudent Pedal

JANUARY 21, 2020

It’s just a good old-fashioned understanding of client needs, combined with intelligent segmentation, aligned with consultative selling, and assisted by technology. The terms are similar to the now trite buying “stages” but Gartner validated its job moniker twist with hundreds of B2B buyer interviews.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

How about by meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals? In the process, we have developed what we call “the Breakthrough Compass” to map the emerging landscape of risk and opportunity. It has developed sophisticated tools to help companies build and test the business case for action, or inaction.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

The saying “You only have one chance to make a first impression” holds true in many situations, from job interviews to sales calls. “The camaraderie develops naturally.” Case Study #1: Do your homework on who you’re meeting and engage the person as a human. What should you actually say?

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2018

News of this kind is “hard to hear, and it’s hard to deliver,” says Joseph Weintraub, a professor at Babson College and the coauthor of The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business. ” Talk about development separately. “It’s not the time for a development conversation ,” he says.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I interviewed people for a university research project 23 years ago about networking, many people weren’t familiar with the term. While it’s easy to think that vast technology-enabled networks aren’t as real or valuable as the old-fashioned, face-to-face variety, research doesn’t support that view.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2016

Machines can now carry out tasks ranging from recommending movies to diagnosing cancer — independently of, and in many cases better than, humans. It’s not implausible to imagine that one day a “strategist in a box” could autonomously develop and execute a business strategy.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 18, 2017

Now, branded items — from luxury cosmetics to fast food and fast fashion — are becoming widely available at the glittering new shopping malls scattered around the region’s fast-growing cities. There is a common belief that as Africa develops, it will become increasingly Westernized.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In the case interview process for McKinsey, one of the early evaluations is “Solve,” McKinsey’s digital assessment game (formerly called the McKinsey Problem Solving Game). It is unclear why this is the case. This will allow you to move through the creation of a system in a linear fashion. So a bottom-up approach works.

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Confessions of a Consultant

MAY 28, 2017

It sounds like a line from Father Ted – but this was actually the case. The Internet video that went viral (the guy completing the Skype interview in Korea) shows the importance of having boundaries. Outside one of the offices, I noticed a guy continually pressing the same key on an old-fashioned typewriter.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Also consider Mish Interview With "Bitcoin Jesus". After shuttering the hidden site, law enforcement went to work confiscating the money and materials belonging to supposed drug kingpin Ross Ulbricht, but this usually routine procedure is proving especially troublesome in this case. Bitcoin Background.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2016

If I were giving bad news to someone I’d interviewed for a job, I might tweak it a bit, but the basic format would stay the same: [Their name], Thanks for making the time to talk with me last week. In those cases, the above messages are probably too cold and too vague. I hope you find a good home for it in another publication.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 22, 2020

Interview Transcript: Betsy: Good afternoon. I can see the business case for it. There are less people that are utilizing a comprehensive holistic model, where they are tying in the effect of the mental and the physical stressors and dealing with that in a primary fashion so that you really reverse disease.

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