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PM Career Paths

Tom Spencer

Being a product manager requires taking responsibility. You are the ambassador of the product. You’re responsible for it from its first fuzzy idea, to concrete concept, through production, launch, and all the way to maturity stage. Stepping into the Product Manager Role. Product Manager Career Paths.

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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business

If any story demonstrates how far employers will go in today’s fierce war for talent, the tale of Snapchat’s geofilter recruiting campaign is it. The fight for new recruits is intense — not just in the tech sector, but across all industries. ” asked the clever riff aimed at Uber workers. So venture out.

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5 Ways to Help Employees Keep Up with Digital Transformation

Harvard Business

And at Greycroft, a venture capital firm, investor Teddy Citrin has laid out a veritable map for the further disruption of every consumer products category. Plug-and-play e-commerce technology, search engine optimization, and other distribution solutions are making it ever easier for products to directly reach consumers.

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Lead to the future: leadership imperatives for success

Brimstone Consulting

To take advantage of this opportunity place focus on building agility, aligning the organization, operating as a team of teams, and developing your people. At the core was building an agile organization – shifting mindsets, creating processes, and developing capabilities. “The Develop a Team of Teams. Build Agility.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

As usual getting into McKinsey is tough, but it’s even tougher in NYC – with many target recruiting schools nearby and hundreds of aspirants swarming to locate in NY, it’s a highly competitive office. The Boston Consulting Group. In New York, Bain is located at 1114 Avenue of the Americas on the 43rd Floor. EY Consulting.

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Skip Engagment: Run ‘attitude adjustment’ sessions (starting with yourself).

Confessions of a Consultant

The currently fashionable way to do this (and management trends are a ‘fashion item’) is to secure employee engagement. But how then do we explain ‘high productivity’ in environments that are typically low engagement? Engagement is used as a proxy for productivity – as if the two terms were interchangeable.

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What U.S. CEOs Should Do with the Money from Corporate Tax Cuts

Harvard Business

But, for most companies, outsize returns are likely to come from three other sources: Investing in productivity-enhancing capital. In a world of tight labor markets, where recruiting and retention are at a premium, investing to make frontline employees more productive should be a priority.