Henry DeVries
JULY 27, 2018
Humor can be a powerful tool for attracting high-paying clients. “Humor is like a secret weapon that’s been hiding in plain sight for years,” says author Karyn Buxman. “Charismatic leaders and top salespeople have been among the early adopters of applied humor.
Harvard Business
JULY 27, 2018
Carlos Osorio/Getty Images. Young management consultants may be novices, but they’re sold as experts. Conversely, even experienced consultants, who legitimately present themselves as experts, still feel like novices when they embark on a new project. The challenge with effective consulting is that it depends on in-depth situational knowledge that consultants simply can’t have when they start an assignment.
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Management and IT Consulting
JULY 27, 2018
This blog brings together insights gleaned from that data supplemented by interviews with millennials in the consulting industry and MBA students contemplating a career in consulting. In the process of collecting this information, five consistent themes emerged, which are key to winning the war for millennial talent.
Harvard Business
JULY 27, 2018
pchyburrs/Getty Images. Academic studies in the social sciences often find very different results. Even in disciplines like medicine, where one might imagine there to be a direct, physical relationship between the intervention being tested and its consequences, results can vary — but many think the situation is worse in the social sciences. This is because the relationship between an intervention and its effects may depend on multiple factors, and differences in context or implementation c
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Seth Godin Blog
JULY 27, 2018
Sports gurus are happy to talk about the difference between fast and slow twitch muscles. And it resonates with us, because we fully understand the ping-pong reflexes that are so often celebrated and often fun to do as well. On our project, it’s tempting to spend all of our time in fast twitch mode. To scan the incoming, grab the urgent, set it up and slam it back.
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Harvard Business
JULY 27, 2018
Yuji Sakai/Getty Images. “We lose $800 billion a year on trade, every year,” President Trump said in March when he announced his new tariff plan, referring to the size of the U.S. trade deficit in goods. Trump has lamented the U.S. trade deficit repeatedly, tweeting that as a result of it , “our jobs and wealth are being given to other countries.” The trade skirmishes that have broken out as a result have the potential of becoming a full-scale trade war of the sort that t
Harvard Business
JULY 27, 2018
Patricia Toth McCormick/Getty Images. Want to catch tax cheats? The government of Rwanda does — and it’s finding them by studying anomalies in revenue-collection data. Want to understand how American culture is changing? So does a budding sociologist in Indiana. He’s using data science to find patterns in the massive amounts of text people use each day to express their worldviews — patterns that no individual reader would be able to recognize.
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