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Government Contracts Pricing Strategy – Ten Dynamic and Synergistic Pricing Practices

Granite Leadership Strategies

The proposal price is important enough to get much of the attention of most company leadership teams. Does your company place emphasis only on finishing the pricing or do you elevate the pricing team involvement and importance? Regrettably, many companies do not have a concrete proposal pipeline and bid on an ad-hoc basis.

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Your Strategic Plans Probably Aren’t Strategic, or Even Plans

Harvard Business

At the start of my public seminars on strategic planning I ask attendees, who rank from board members and CEOs to middle management, to write down an example of a strategy on a sheet of paper. Let’s go back to our seminar list and take one of the responses: “achieve $100m net revenue.”

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What to Do After the Consulting Firm Offer

CaseInterview.com

I presented in the boardroom of a Fortune 25 company I've never seen a conference room table that seats 80 people (the size of the board), has microphones for every seat (because you literally cannot hear what the person at the other end of the table is saying), and costs $250,000 (for a table!).

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Announcing the CEO Club of Greater Boston

Emerson Consulting Group

But CEOs lucky enough to come across a gathering place with other CEOs, in effect a “watering hole,” will be able to also locate both answers and emotional relief to keep them and their companies moving forward, and in the right direction! CEO Recharge, a structured retreat for reflecting on new company strategies and goals.

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Duke University undergrad prepares for BCG Interview Superday

Management Consulted

So what made you choose Duke for that weekend seminar as opposed to a different school, and what do you think about it? So they are concerned that that realism is going to come across and almost like taint someone’s view of the company, of BCG. Because the question that you asked said I don’t know much about finance.

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Networking 101: We Spill The Beans On How To Network Your Way Into Any Job. It’s Finally Live!

Management Consulted

And for the short-attention span people out there, here are The 10 Takeaways You Shouldn’t Miss From Our Networking Seminar : For those in school, attend every event possible. “How about for people who do not know consultants or even finance people? Network properly while there! Find common ground that you can talk about.

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How a C Player Becomes an A Player

CaseInterview.com

In particular, I described how important it was to be an “A” player in your company. However, I did not know a lot about any one thing — like sales, finance or technology. Maybe you think you should be motivated by working for a prestigious company, but if you genuinely are not — it’s foolish to keep lying to yourself about it.