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Recharge Your Time Management

The Clever Consultant

Running a successful consulting business means your time is spread thin. And then there’s the marketing: writing case studies to keep your kit fresh, articles or blog posts for your website, social networks to update and so on. I like to come back from time-off refreshed and recharged, feeling like I’ve got everything underfoot.

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Case Study: Are Our Customer Liaisons Helping or Hurting?

Harvard Business

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. My family obligations, for example, and the demands in my own practice.” Vishnu Patel, a respected cardiologist who’d just given his notice.

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Student consulting – it does more than deliver

Tom Spencer

Smith may refer to student consulting clubs as the ‘kiss of death’ for interview success but as they imply in the post (I can’t tell Smith’s gender because he or she is writing pseudonymously), the key to success actually lies in the examples you give and what it says about you. You get to develop or learn new skills.

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How to Manage Managers

Harvard Business

So be sure that you are managing your people in the way that you expect them to manage their own teams. For example, if you want your direct reports to give their team members autonomy, be sure that you are doing the same for them. Regularly seek feedback on how you’re doing as their manager.

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How to Convince Your Boss to Let You Work from Home

Harvard Business

Case Study #1: Propose a pilot and then ace it by being responsive and productive. “Now even our CEO and CFO work from home from time to time,” he says. ” Case Study #2: Present evidence to make your case, and then be flexible and committed to the job.

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The Right Way to Check Someone’s References

Harvard Business

Can you give me an example of how Nancy got new employees to work with her?” For instance, “Nancy doesn’t have a lot of experience managing people”—how do you think she’ll do as a supervisor? Case Study #1: Solicit feedback from team members to focus your questions. ” she says.