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An Ex-Consultant’s Jump into the Start Up World

Management Consulted

He co-founded MobileSuites, an app that puts travel concierge services and hotel information at your fingertips, and which you can (and should) find and sign-up for here. Other times, we would be doing due diligence on a data center, and that would be a much more slimmed down team, probably one or two analysts and a manager.

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Leadership Tip #13: For Innovation, Remove at Least One Policy or Procedure a Week

Johanna Rothman

Instead, I offered them a deal—I would estimate the airfare and hotel and not charge them a cent more. What culture do you want? We have data that says performance reviews don't work. I've worked with clients who wanted me to itemize every penny I spent so that they could reimburse me. I had to itemize everything.

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Charting your consulting career direction

Tom Spencer

For those who have an interest in specific industries as well as how they operate, consulting can offer you unique access to key decision makers and real time data. Lastly, before you join a consulting firm, be sure to find out about its workplace culture. Exit opportunities.

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The Data-Driven Case for Vacation

Harvard Business

A 24-month moving average was used to eliminate short-term fluctuations in the data.) But the data does not support that. ” All of us are too steeped in a productivity culture to value doing nothing (which is why we, personally, struggle with our meditation practice). And that is exactly what the data bears out.

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Learn from Your Analytics Failures

Harvard Business

Today, brave new data scientists discipline k-means clusters and random graphs to proffer their predictions. Did I mention they have petabytes more data to play with and process? Because it means the assumptions, the data, the model and/or the analyses were wrong in some meaningfully measurable way.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms in Washington, DC

Management Consulted

The DC office management pushes training programs and the culture is all about grooming employees into McKinsey-bred consultants; they do everything they can to stay on top. The BAH office culture is a happy one marked by flexibility and managers who are very supportive and collaborate with the team. Cool, or not? Pretty cool.

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Is Employee Engagement Just a Reflection of Personality?

Harvard Business

Traditionally, this research has focused on the contextual or external drivers of engagement, such as the characteristics of the job, the culture of the organization, or the quality of its leaders. A recent meta-analysis provides some much needed data-driven answers.