Martinka Consulting

JULY 15, 2017

And how it’s used to bombard us with targeted messages, or, in worst case scenarios, how others can use it to terrorize people. A friend feels she recently dodged a bullet during an interview. When arriving at the company the first person she met said, “Oh, you’re here to interview for my job.” Here’s what happened.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2018

Self-awareness seems to have become the latest management buzzword — and for good reason. 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. Take Jeremiah, a marketing manager.

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2017

The term “authenticity” has become a buzzword among organizational leaders, with employers encouraging job candidates and employees to bring their whole selves to interviews or the workplace. First, consider the case of Chastity Jones , who received a formal job offer from an insurance claims processing center in 2010.

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Emerson Consulting Group

MAY 7, 2019

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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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

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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Prudent Pedal

JANUARY 21, 2020

We’ve managed to ruin the critical, powerful mapping of the buyer’s journey. Buyer’s journey mapping has grown in importance for professional services firms as more firm solutions have become productized. Once again, I’ve overstated my case. How to Manage the Professional Services Firm – David Maister.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Under new ownership (Volvo was sold to China’s Geely by Ford in 2010), the Swedish automaker decided to transform its product line by becoming a premium player. “Technically, cars today are very different from ten years ago,” says Sällström, whom we interviewed for our book, Talent Wins.

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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. If, for instance, colleagues say you are a great people manager, seek out metrics to support that idea. Perhaps your direct reports tend to get promoted faster or your team is more productive.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 10, 2019

Like a consulting interview, a product manager (PM) interview consists of multiple parts, including a case study and a behavioral portion, which looks for communication, management, and prioritization skills. But what’s different is that it adds a twist by having product-related questions as well.

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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. Remember Long-Term Capital Management ? Within this machine, people and technology must each play their particular roles in an integrated fashion.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Bad Writing Is Destroying Your Company’s Productivity. 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.

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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. The book attempted to distil the methods deployed by the best-managed companies to create what’s sometimes referred to as sticky talent. The interviewer replies, “ Yeah, but you started it.”.

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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). McKinsey’s digital assessment game Solve is a video game in which candidates problem-solve to manage some form of ecological situation.

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Confessions of a Consultant

MAY 28, 2017

Personal Story: When I started working as a management consultant, we operated from a shared office on Northumberland Road in Ballsbridge. Being able to run errands e.g. to pop around to the Supermarket – if you need to – decreases stress (and increases productivity). Less dry-cleaning bills! I know, I know.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 22, 2020

Interview Transcript: Betsy: Good afternoon. If you think about how we've been trained in medicine, most of our emphasis has been on managing disease once we identify it. And or course in the standard of care we do lifestyle modification, and then after that we give you usually some medication to start managing the sugars.

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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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