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Competitive Advantage in Consulting and in Life

CaseInterview.com

My thoughts on this topic are widely applicable to CIBs (Case Interview Beginners), F1Ys (Future first years), and CIFMs (Consulting Isn't for Me). No, I'm pretty sure I could beat him in a case interview competition! But, I'm half-decent at this case interview thing. You see, CEOs do this all the time.

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3 Ways to Make Time for the Little Tasks You Never Make Time For

Harvard Business

After one extended trip abroad during which he avoided email, he wrote that he had missed a large number of critical messages, including a fulfillment center crisis that caused him to lose more than 20% of monthly orders for his business, media interview opportunities that had expired, and more than a dozen partnership offers.

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Business Lessons from Henry David Thoreau

Emerson Consulting Group

But there is indeed a case to be made in terms of business milestones achieved by Henry Thoreau in his lifetime. Pencil manufacturing in the US at the time was extremely competitive, with many pencil “products” lacking the reliably fine-point consistency we are accustomed to today.

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How to Pass the McKinsey Problem Solving Game

CaseInterview.com

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). This game evaluates the candidate’s ability to solve problems efficiently and think critically. It is unclear why this is the case.

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Bitcoin, Encryption, Drug Use, and the FBI's Own Bitcoin Wallet; What's the War on Drugs "Really" About?

MishTalk

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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Saving the Planet from Ecological Disaster Is a $12 Trillion Opportunity

Harvard Business

A few years after our visit, Kelly wrote an influential article on his personal blog that captures the conundrum of shifting to an exponential mindset: [W]hile progress runs on exponential curves, our individual lives proceed in a linear fashion. But, he says , ultimately “technology is a resource-liberating force.”