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How to Improve Brain Processing Speed (Improving Problem Solving in a Case Interview)

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This caseinterview.com student sent me an email recently asking my advice on how they could practice and improve their performance in the problem-solving part of a case interview. First of all, many thanks for all your information and encouraging words on case interview preparation . Reader’s Email. My Response.

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Assess, Decide, and Act Cycle

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I’ve participated in several mass casualty training exercises (e.g., In several of those exercises, I had the opportunity to train in the role of incident commander (IC) and other leadership roles. At the very start of one of my exercises, all of our “patients” began screaming in agony and pain. A: Nobody knows.

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Coronavirus: Analysis, Conclusions & Takeaways

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1) Sample-Size Problem As of March 5th, 4 pm ET, the United States had: Total Cases: 164 Total Deaths: 11 Friends of mine have said, “Why is everyone freaking out over 11 deaths?” Only 164 cases, that's not bad compared to other countries." The closest proxy metric that’s easy to measure is # of NEW cases today vs. yesterday.

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Coronavirus: Leadership during a Crisis

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I have extensive training in mass-casualty incidents, urban search and rescue, and field-level emergency medical response. I’ve also led mass casualty training exercises as a field operations leader and incident commander. In that case, you need to explain why everyone’s instinctive reaction is the wrong one.

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Why CEOs Devote So Much Time to Their Hobbies

Harvard Business

Solomon, aka DJ D-Sol, is known for his mantra of finding passion at, and outside of, work — and he’s not an isolated case. For each of them, we scoured thousands of articles, videos, and social media posts about them and their interests. And I need some level of control over something.’”

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Elite Performance - What It Really Takes

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It is ridiculous how fast Ali Raisman and Jordyn Wieber are on the floor exercises. One question asked of Gold Medalist Jordyn Wieber was, "When did you first start doing gymnastics, and how much do you train?". If you want to train yourself to think at that level, you might as well start now. within 15 seconds.

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business

Through a coordinated, systemic, prolonged intervention with dozens of institutions and thousands of individual participants, new growth of the local companies we trained has directly created over 1033 jobs, fueled by dozens of new private sector financings. President Santos even made a video touting Scaling Up Manizales’ impact.