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Before Day 1: Taking Advantage of the In-Between

Tom Spencer

You successfully interviewed for a position at your dream consulting firm, and you have received and accepted an offer. Maybe you interviewed in the fall but defend your thesis in the spring. Maybe you interviewed in the fall but defend your thesis in the spring. You did it! However, you have multiple months before you begin.

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Make Sure Your Employees Have Enough Interesting Work to Do

Harvard Business

Is it a problem of time management? Take for example the case of my recent client, an engineering consulting company I’ll call Astride. I also interviewed the partners and a cross section of employees to better understand the anchors on raising Aristide’s productivity. What could be the cause? Dig deeper.

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How to Manage Managers

Harvard Business

but you should make time to do things like participate in their team meetings, watch them give feedback, or conduct job interviews. Regularly seek feedback on how you’re doing as their manager. Case Study #1: Model the behavior you want to see. “The managers showed real growth in their skills.

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Minimum Efficient Scale

CaseInterview.com

In the software startup world, “to scale up” means to “get big fast.”. If you found this post useful, I suggest becoming a registered member (it's free) to get access to the materials I used to pass 60 out of 61 case interviews , land 7 job offers, and end up working at McKinsey. Let’s take a look at what this phrase means.