Wed.Oct 30, 2019

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How Widening Skills Gaps Require More Re-Skilling of Employees

Clarity Consultants

Luckily, re-skilling is a fairly straightforward concept. If you want to elevate the capabilities of your employees, here’s what you need to do to embrace this training trend. The post How Widening Skills Gaps Require More Re-Skilling of Employees appeared first on Clarity Consultants - Training Development.

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The Six-Minute Hypothesis Rule

CaseInterview.com

Email: I am an MBA student at a leading Indian B-school and successfully secured offers following my AT Kearney interview and BCG interview for their [ City in India ] office last week. Thanks a ton for all the help in case interview preparation through LOMS and the regular posts sharing others' interview experiences with all the leading firms.

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21 Biggest Content Marketing Mistakes

Chad Barr

One of the key attributes of the most successful global thought leaders is the fact that they are prolific publishers of remarkable content and they do so provocatively, consistently in a large variety of media formats and online platforms. In other words, they leverage content marketing brilliantly and become game changers in their respected industries.

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The Right Attitude for Case Interviews

CaseInterview.com

Email: My success is really your success at case preparation. Here's how I prepared and what worked well for me. Preparation: - LOMS and McKinsey's Problem Solving Test for the case studies (four weeks). Personally, I found the best case interviews [ in LOMS ] to be the most helpful. I'd listen for a minute or two, press "pause," create my own issue tree , ask the questions out loud, then press "play" to see how close (or rather far off) I was from you.

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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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Your report meets spec … here’s why that’s a problem

Rod Burkert

Greetings from Big Bend, Texas. The RV is parked for the winter as another travel season (our 10 th ) has come to a close. In case you missed last week: Why you should charge a price that scares you – and then add 20%. If pricing is difficult for you, this information will help you re-frame your clients’ problems and your conversations with them. Big takeaway: to get more business, don’t decrease your price … increase the experience you offer.

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Beyond Deep Learning with Gary Marcus

Harvard Business

Gary Marcus has a reputation for being a contrarian in the AI community. Over the past several years, Marcus, a neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and the author of “Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust , ” has been a vocal critic of deep learning as the best way forward for AI. Marcus joins Azeem Azhar to discuss the alternatives for building better machine intelligence.

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McKinsey Offer from Top 200 University

CaseInterview.com

The following field report is from a McKinsey new hire from a Top 200 U.S. university. While McKinsey and the other top firms are heavily represented by graduates of Ivy League universities (and their international counterparts), it is not staffed exclusively this way. The story that follows is very instructive for anyone applying from a non-target school.

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Bread and books

Seth Godin Blog

Twenty years ago, I met the most famous baker in the world. I was in Paris for a speech, and visited Poilane, a bakery much smaller than its reputation would lead you to believe. I was hoping to take home an unbaked kilo of dough, a sourdough, one that I could use to spawn hundreds of new loaves over the years. Proud of my sneakiness, I began by ordering $30 worth of loaves and tarts.

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Options for Post Consulting Careers

CaseInterview.com

Question: First, let me tell you that LOMS has been of great help. It was interesting and very concise. Thanks to it, I was able to get an offer from BCG and Oliver Wyman. I really enjoyed meeting the consultants, but ultimately feel BCG is a better fit. In any case, I have a question for you regarding Consulting vs. industry. I have been told that one year in consulting = 2 - 3 in industry.

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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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AI Can Outperform Doctors. So Why Don’t Patients Trust It?

Harvard Business

They don’t think the technology can understand their unique needs.

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Personal Ethics -- in Consulting Offers and in Business

CaseInterview.com

Question: Thank you for creating the LOMS program and imparting so much wisdom in your email updates! I was hoping to get your advice regarding signing offer letters. I received two offers recently and have also been given offer deadline extensions for them until later this week, which I had requested as a way to "buy" time: 1) to hear back from other firms I interviewed with, and 2) for the final round interview with my top-choice firm this week.

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The Manager Employee Retention Myth

LSA Global

The Manager Employee Retention Myth about Managers’ Importance. We’ve all heard it – the claim that disengaged employees leave managers, not organizations. But it turns out, this long-held conviction originally started by Gallup is only partially true. Our Best Places to Work research points to two other factors that have a greater influence on employees’ leaving than the influence of poor managers.

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Preparation Tips from a McKinsey New Hire

CaseInterview.com

What follows are helpful tips on case interview preparation that I received from an F1Y. Success Story: Hope you are doing well. A couple of weeks back I got an offer from McKinsey's [ U.S. city ] office. I am a PhD student in biomedical sciences and my university can be considered to be one of the "brand names" that consulting firms look for. However, I was completely alien to a case interview till about 6 months back.

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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.

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How to Better Handle Missed Deadlines as a New Manager

LSA Global

How to Better Handle Missed Deadlines. Our recent new manager training research found that deadlines are one of the biggest sources of frustration, stress, and conflict for team leaders. Even though most senior executives consider timelines to be flexible, most employees report being hesitant to ask for more time from their boss. And our employee engagement research tells us that managers who know how to better handle missed deadlines as a new manager have higher levels of employee performance

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Treat the Interviewer Like a Client

CaseInterview.com

Question: First of all I would like to thank you. Everything you produced about consulting (video tutorials, emails, etc.) has been helpful in leading me towards receiving multiple job offers - eventually accepting an offer from McKinsey Milan, Italy. Your materials have been helpful in many different ways, from the psychologic preparation to the technical approach to solving the case.

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TikTok, Museums, the Audio Explosion, and Other Trends in Entertainment

Harvard Business

Youngme, Felix, and Mihir discuss a variety of trends from the world of entertainment — including TikTok, the resurgence of museums, the audio explosion, newspaper paywalls, spiked seltzer, entertainment genres, and binge-watching vs. appointment-viewing.

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Six Consulting Offers from Toronto

CaseInterview.com

Email: This is a little overdue but I wanted to send you a note with a big thank you for all the prep material on the website. I found it several months ago and started prepping immediately and had done 40-50 practice interview cases before recruiting season. The frameworks are an excellent way to guide your thinking during the interview rounds , but the key to doing well is to tackle as many cases before the interviews, especially since I came from a liberal arts background!

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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How Your Company’s Culture Can Adapt to an Ever-Changing World - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM SAP

Harvard Business

Sponsor content from SAP.

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Salary Negotiation in Consulting Job Offers

CaseInterview.com

Question: I'm happy to report that I received an offer from BCG this week, in no small part due to your program. What a fantastic holiday gift for me and my family! One quick question. Is it considered poor form to try and negotiate salary as a lateral (experienced) hire? The package I've been offered is certainly generous as a whole, but doesn't each level (I'm coming in as a second year consultant) have a salary band where there's some opportunity to adjust upward from the mean?

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Why You Shouldn’t Slash Prices in the Next Recession

Harvard Business

If you prepare the right way, you won’t have to.

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Managing Bias and Risk at Every Step of the AI-Building Process

Harvard Business

It should be an iterative, cross-team effort.

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TOOLS and METHODOLOGIES for developing DECISION SUPPORT PACKAGES

This White Paper targets opportunities for Management to develop proficiency in the Decision Framing and Analyses element of input to Decision, & Risk Analyses for Major Project Funding Decisions.