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Conversation with A.T. Kearney

Tom Spencer

We have a series of formal and informal training sessions which consultants must join as part of their development – certainly the formal training. Tom: When is the next round of recruitment application deadlines? At MBA level, we recruit from B-schools in Europe and the US as well as locally – so deadlines vary accordingly.

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Technical Experts Need to Get Better at Telling Stories

Harvard Business

I’ve been approached many times by recruiters asking me to refer them to communications talent, but frequently the folks I offer up are rejected because they don’t have a master’s degree or PhD in a scientific or technical field. What are technical innovators doing wrong – and how can they fix it?

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What If You Could Learn Design from Apple?

Harvard Business

The best ones are permeable membranes that transfer knowledge from the outside in: Steve Jobs recruited the Dean of Yale’s Business School to run Apple University, while Jeff Weiner recruited business coach and thought leader Fred Kofman to lead leadership development for LinkedIn.