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Introducing CareerWaze

Management Consulted

Career Waze – Letting AI direct your learning AI and tech are taking over every industry. In today’s day and age, a baseline knowledge of AI advances and technical skills are necessary tools in the consulting toolbelt. As a consultant, … Continued. The post Introducing CareerWaze appeared first on Management Consulted.

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From Internship To Full-Time Job: The Best Way Into Consulting

Tom Spencer

If you are in your final year at university or you have recently finished your degree, there is a chance you are looking at jobs in management consulting. It is an incredibly interesting and challenging profession, which offers a great starting salary and many job opportunities going forward. Moreover, it is a convenient way to get to know different industries and business functions for those who are still unsure about which career path to follow in the long run.

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Truth. It’s In Short Supply

Steve Tobak

Friends often ask me why I do what I do. By any measure I had one hell-of-a career. I went out on top. Why bother blogging and consulting? Why not just retire to some pristine island in the pacific, lounge on the beach, write my memoirs and work on the[.] Read On. The post Truth. It’s In Short Supply appeared first on Steve Tobak.

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Frameworks for the Case Interview (Part I: Market Study Framework)

Tom Spencer

As I have been asked by quite a lot of people to share some frameworks, I will use the next 3 posts to walk you through the most frequently used frameworks in the case interview. While you are reading those frameworks and related examples, keep in mind that no framework is the skeleton key to all case interviews. What you need to do is absorb the methods or concepts applied in each framework and then make your own version.

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PowerPoint Best Practices for Creating Stellar Presentations

Mastering data visualization in PowerPoint will help accelerate your career because it positions you as someone who can present data that drives business decisions forward. think-cell's PowerPoint Best Practices eBook was created specifically for professionals aiming to master the art and science of data-driven storytelling. What’s inside: Practical Insights: Uncover valuable tips for crafting engaging and persuasive presentations.

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Influence, Teenagers, and False Eyelashes

CaseInterview.com

The other day, my teenage daughter asked me to buy her false eyelashes. When I asked her why she wanted them, she said, “It’s for my school camping trip with my classmates.”. Of course, I said, “Why in the world do you need fake eyelashes to go camping?!?”. I don’t remember her answer. What I do remember is her sales argument. “But Dad, you said we should always be trying new things.”.

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Checking for understanding

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: This Dan Pink interview on Tim Ferriss’ podcast has some useful things around writing and particularly on writing speeches. Dan suggests a useful question to ask to check for understanding what about that doesn’t make sense This allows people to tell you what’s wrong. Asking “Does that make sense” is the usual thing you hear, […].

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Tactics without strategy is a scrum

Seth Godin Blog

When your timeline is an hour or a day, it's easy to get in the tactical groove. But repeat that hour after hour, day after day, and all you're making is a mess. This is bureaucracy run amok. This is busy-ness, not effectiveness. What's the long-term plan? What builds on what? How do you build assets and leverage instead of merely keeping busy? And how can you tell if it's working?

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Technical specialists make for better teams?

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: I have a weird resistance to the information provided in this Harvard Business Review podcast. The way that they conducted the research doesn’t sit well with me. Go listen for yourself, and the message is that for teams of football players and for teams of surgeons the teams with the best results are managed by […].

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How to Build a Strengths Based Employee Experience

Leadership Vision Consulting

In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Linda Schubring and Nathan Freeburg are talking about what it takes to build a Strengths Based employee experience. The two get way down into the weeds. The good, the bad, and the ugly of transforming an organization into one that is planted deep in the soil of Strengths, and subscribes to a philosophy that everyone should operate from a position of Strength.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Creating a culture of open communication

Peter Stark

Communication is hard. But we find that the organizations in our Best of the Best Benchmark are consistently rated higher by their employees than those in our overall benchmark. So we know it is possible and companies are accomplishing it. But the question for most is how? When we look at communication in our benchmarks, we find that good managers, supervisors, and leaders are consistently taking actions to create a climate that is conducive to open and honest communication.

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Why Tax Reform Changes Nothing -- and Everything

Strategy+Business

Tax reform actually changes everything. We've never had a moment in which so much cash will be sitting on corporate balance sheets. The most strategic-minded executives will see this opportunity as a watershed moment to reevaluate how they allocate cash.

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The Weekly Independent: May 14, 2018

MBO Partners

News and notes for independent professionals and their clients. This is the May 14, 2018 edition.

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Cryptocurrencies for Small Businesses – Cautions and Use Cases

Tom Spencer

As the price of cryptocurrencies skyrocketed in late 2017 and early 2018, there was rampant speculation about whether blockchain and cryptocurrencies are the future. They have potential to replace gold as a store of wealth or even fiat currencies for daily transactions. Bitcoin may be pilfering some gold demand , but gold and fiat currencies will not be ousted anytime soon.

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Savings Consultants Are Needed in Today's Market More Than Ever

Savings Consultants are needed in today’s market more than ever. With an increase in expenses, businesses are looking for opportunities to save. Often unknown to businesses are savings in expense reduction, specialized tax savings, specialized savings including medical underpayments, health benefits cost reduction, zero cost processing, and more. Blue Coast Savings, with over 20 years in business, assists Savings Consultants in helping these companies move toward more profitable businesses.