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5 Tips on How to Spend Your Summer Before You Start Your Consulting Job

Tom Spencer

Post-graduation start-dates generally range from starting almost immediately (June) to what has colloquially been referred to as the “travel around the world” start date (early in the next calendar year). Combine Global Travel with Learning Opportunities. For some it might be functional, like Excel or PowerPoint skills.

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(Value Stream) Map Your Way to a Better Post-Covid Future

Markovitz Consulting

Sample development The dress maker designs dresses in the US and uses contract factories in Asia for manufacturing. Design and development is an iterative process that broadly works like this: Depending on the complexity of the item or the idiosyncrasies of the fabrics, there might be a third or fourth round of samples.

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The Year at a Glance

Chad Barr

Traveled the world, met some amazing people, and attended some outstanding growth developmental experiences. Here are a few of my next year goals: Release our new (and amazingly exciting) bimonthly digital magazine called Innovate during the first week of January. Develop a new public workshop. Launch our new online product.

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Brews, News and Booz & Company: Interview and Culture Insights

Management Consulted

After he graduated from Northwestern University (Chicago, IL), he developed the idea that companies would become more successful if they called on someone outside of their organization to offer expert, unbiased advice. This idea became a theory, and he developed a practice. How did he think up such a career? Organization and Change.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms in San Francisco

Management Consulted

2 on Fortune Magazine’s 2015 list of the “Top 100 Consulting Companies to Work for.” In addition, BCG hosts combined Training & Development events between the San Francisco and Palo Alto offices to incorporate team-building across offices and engage them in learning together. The firm was ranked No.

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Conversation with North Highland

Tom Spencer

Founded in 1992, North Highland is an employee-owned global management consulting firm that has been named as a Best Firm to Work For every year since 2007 by Consulting Magazine. Tom: What is the firm’s travel model? Please read the edited transcript of my communication with Jennifer and Cheryl below.

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15 Best Business Podcasts for Independent Consultants

Tsavo Neal

Podcasts make amazing listening material for commutes, travel, and listening for when you don’t feel like taking out a book. The show also features experts providing advice on topics such as insurance, contracts, travel, use of LinkedIn, and daily routines. Magazine Contributor John Nemo! The results were astonishing.