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Simon-Kucher & Partners Interviews & Culture

Management Consulted

Though the firm’s background is exclusively in pricing, in more recent years it has been breaking into other practice areas such as strategy, marketing, and sales. In 1996, Simon-Kucher opened an office in Boston and began to put more of a focus on its other three practice areas: strategy, marketing, and sales. Construction.

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$22 Billion in California Homes Sold to Chinese All-Cash Buyers; "Beginning of Tidal Wave" says NAR Chief Economist

MishTalk

Foreign Sales Jump. median price of $199,575 for existing-home sales. Buyers from China are driving up prices and fueling new construction in Southern California areas such as Arcadia, a city of about 57,500 people with top-rated schools, a large Chinese immigrant community and an array of Chinese restaurants and markets.

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How to Find the Grit Passion for Winning at Business and Life: Interview with Dave Saliaris

Consulting Matters

I worked in a company for a long period of time, over 30 years, in various roles so it was like I had moved through various different jobs; traveled all over the world at a very high level position of a global vice president role; 250 people globally working for me, those kind of things. Dave Saliaris : Yeah, pretty interesting.

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How to Find the Grit Passion for Winning at Business and Life: Interview with Dave Saliaris

Consulting Matters

I worked in a company for a long period of time, over 30 years, in various roles so it was like I had moved through various different jobs; traveled all over the world at a very high level position of a global vice president role; 250 people globally working for me, those kind of things. Dave Saliaris : Yeah, pretty interesting.

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A New Way for Entrepreneurs to Think About IT

Harvard Business

Bricolage , a French word by origin, means the construction of things from a set of available items. The bricoleur is a French term for the person who employs such construction methods—in short, a handyman or jack-of-all-trades. Need travel information or services? Theirs is a “bricolage” approach to digital.

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Doubling a $400,000 Revenue Model With Business Trainer Blair Enns: Podcast #22

Consulting Success

Self-described “recovering consultant” Blair Enns is the CEO of Win Without Pitching, a sales training organization for creative professionals in the design, advertising, and public relations fields. It’s a sales training organization to creative professionals. Thank you, Michael. It’s a pleasure to be here.

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What the Crisis Taught Us: More Bubbles! We Need Bigger Bubbles to Combat Deflation!

MishTalk

Demise of Japan Coming Up For all the p **g and moaning about Japan, until the revival of GM, Japan''s auto and technology sales did quite fine. Falling prices and bargains spur sales. If falling prices stopped sales, there would have been no sales of flat-panel TVs, computers, or any other electronic devices for years.