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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. It took several meetings to convince them that he didn’t know what he was talking about.” Vishnu Patel, a respected cardiologist who’d just given his notice.

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Before Day 1: Taking Advantage of the In-Between

Tom Spencer

This could be a good time to learn a new language, so you can use it on a future work trip. You were probably practicing case studies daily, so it should be easy to replace this daily discipline with practicing a new language every day. This is your chance to try something new, meet new people, and enjoy your time.

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Student consulting – it does more than deliver

Tom Spencer

Your personal skills, such as confidence and time management and coping with stress, will likely be tested as you will find yourself in scenarios that stretch your capabilities in these areas. From this, you can identify any potential problems and use the experience to find a way to manage or solve these problems. Conclusion.

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The Six-Minute Hypothesis Rule

CaseInterview.com

Do let me know in case you happen to come to India any time, and I would be really pleased to meet you. If you meet a client for the very first time and immediately tell them your hypothesis as to what is wrong with their company before you ever ask them any questions, they tend to look at you with suspicion and distrust.

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How to Get an Employee to Work Faster

Harvard Business

Your employee might be struggling with a new task, or be so much of a perfectionist that she’s devoting too much time to certain projects. She might be slow because she’s waiting on late work from other team members, or she may not even realize that she’s not meeting expectations.

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How to Manage Managers

Harvard Business

But your direct reports don’t just learn from you when you sit down for your one-on-one meetings. People are watching all the time,” says Finkelstein. The best training for someone learning to become a manager is individualized attention from you, their boss. This shouldn’t just occur in meetings though.