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The Business Empath's Guide to Consulting & Coaching

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An empath is someone with an extremely reactive neurological system which causes them to absorb both the positive and stressful energies around them. I started to suspect that I was when I was presenting some difficult feedback to a client about their sales practices. Guard your heart and mind before you do interviews and focus groups.

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Charlie Munger & Mental Models

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It’s the species that performs a niche function in the ecological system that isn’t being served by another species. This can occur if sales drop drastically, and you didn’t see it coming. It can also occur when sales accelerate suddenly, and you didn’t see that coming either. Me: “Why?”. Me: “Why?”.

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PARADE Method

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The PARADE Method (tm) is an approach to answering resume-oriented job interview questions. It is an approach I developed that is tailored for answering these questions in job interviews for management consulting, as well as interviews for senior executive positions in industry. Interviewers want to know what you did.

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COVID-19: Local vs. Global Optimization

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If the VP of sales maximizes sales without considering what the finance team needs for profitability, collections, or cash management, overall company performance suffers. In quasi-mathematical terms, the VP of sales tries to achieve a “local” optimization. As I speak, the hospital systems in New York are being overwhelmed.

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COVID-19: Org Structure vs. The Mission

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Each public health department's objective is to reduce COVID-19 cases in their county. Nobody can say, “I am responsible for the Victor Cheng case. public health system organization design. We have a decentralized system to address a virus that does not respect jurisdictional boundaries. In the case of U.S.

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How to Be a Superstar in Corporate

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academic grading system where the top-performing students are awarded an “A” grade and the worst-performing students earn an “F” grade. For that same staff member, I mentioned earlier, I told him on day #1 as his boss, "Get me $16 million in sales out of North America in the next 12 months. Amongst U.S. This is based on the U.S.

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Inside a Fortune 500 Boardroom

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The table was so large that every seating position had its own microphone that was attached to a public address amplification system. The company had suffered a 40% drop in sales. I’ve never seen a conference room table so large before. I would not be surprised if the table with its 60 embedded microphones and chairs cost $250,000.