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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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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. Not returning to school or filled your schedule up already?

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The Six-Minute Hypothesis Rule

CaseInterview.com

Also, it ensures that the subsequent questions I asked would hold a lot more meaning to the case in question. I had heard from a lot of people before coming across your resources that it is of essence to lay out a structure for solving the case right at the start and that asking lots of questions is the most important thing.

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The Right Way to Check Someone’s References

Harvard Business

Case Study #1: Solicit feedback from team members to focus your questions. Brian McClusky, director of human resources at InkHouse, the PR firm based just outside of Boston, MA, views reference checking as the “final step” of the vetting process for new hires. “It was clear that they valued him very highly.”

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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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