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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

As the organization changes (both products and tooling), people might not make those mistakes again. About a decade ago, an organization suffered three consecutive bad deployments to production. Finally, one large change broke the production server. What culture do you want? Or have those same risks.

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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.) The question that needs to be asked is whether we are more productive and successful with fewer days, or whether work is getting in the way of our success. But the data does not support that. And that is exactly what the data bears out.

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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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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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Is Employee Engagement Just a Reflection of Personality?

Harvard Business

When employees are engaged, they display high levels of enthusiasm, energy, and motivation, which translates into higher levels of job performance, creativity, and productivity. A recent meta-analysis provides some much needed data-driven answers.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms in Washington, DC

Management Consulted

Close to the Capitol, its office serves dynamic clients in a mix of industries including healthcare, aerospace, defense, and consumer products. 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. Cool, or not?