Management Consulted

DECEMBER 8, 2013

'As consultants, we’ve worked with hundreds of clients across multiple industries. After years of analysis, compiling extensive data in Excel, and developing multiple-slide decks on the matter, we’ve come to several solid expert conclusions : 1. Life is better with a moustache. 2. People with moustaches are more likely to make history. Now, we might be joking a bit, but Moustache Movember is seriously one of our favorite months.

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The Clever Consultant

DECEMBER 17, 2013

'Raise your hand if you’re fed up with the bazillion tweets and posts promising “SEO Secrets” like rubbing peanut butter on your blog to attract more readers from the myriad of “internet marketing enthusiasts”. Marketing a consulting business can be exhausting. Writing posts, finding images, researching keywords, getting on social networks…sometimes it feels like war […].

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 8, 2013

'What can we learn from the life of such a man? NELSON Mandela passed away last Thursday at the age of 95. He was a man amongst men who fought and won the battle against Apartheid in South Africa. As the world continues to mourn his loss and reminds itself of Mandela’s heroic leadership and contribution to peace and equality in South Africa, it is worth pausing to reflect on what we can learn from the life of such a man.

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Women in Consulting

DECEMBER 12, 2013

'By: Jennifer LeBlanc What is the value of a retreat? Insight, clarity, rest, renewal, refreshment, energy, excitement, and more. The rewards are numerous and powerful. Yet very few actually give themselves permission to go on retreat. Especially women. Yet, like exercise, the more someone says she doesn’t have time to do a retreat, the more I would argue that she does need one.

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The Thirsty Dog

DECEMBER 11, 2013

This post by Jason Price can be seen at The Thirsty Dog Blog - Seattle's Finest Blog on Business and Consulting by Jason Price. In this installment, Jason Price covers the impacts of declining Ad Revenue and an Aging Readership on the print news media industry. The post Print Media Doom Part 1: Is Ad Revenue Decline the Beginning of the End? appeared first on The Thirsty Dog Blog.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 23, 2013

'We’re starting a series of guest posts offered by staff, readers and interns that are reviews of books we think are helpful for those interested in consulting (specifically) and business (in general). This week’s post is on Lords of Strategy - written by Walter Kiechel III , a journalist for 30 years, serving as an editor of Fortune and editorial director of Harvard Business Publishing.

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Kates Kesler

DECEMBER 16, 2013

'Very large multi-national product companies need to find creative ways to enjoy the benefits of scale while remaining agile. This is especially true in developing markets where competitors can move very quickly with few of the obstacles that big companies face. Business leaders have long been intrigued with the idea of reducing hierarchy, putting greater emphasis on networks, and empowering decisions closer to the market.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 7, 2013

'How can you get what you ask for? How can you significantly increase the chances that another person will say yes to your request? ROBERT Cialdini, best-selling author of Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion , gives an insightful talk on how you can persuade people to do what you want. As a tenured professor, Cialdini jokes that academics are people who are not satisfied by something that works well in practice, until they’ve tried it out in theory.

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Women in Consulting

DECEMBER 19, 2013

'By: Amy Smith Last Thursday, December 12 th , Women in Consulting released the full results of our 12 th Annual Best Practices and Compensation Survey. The survey found that while gross revenue of top Bay Area consultants increased dramatically, revenue margins were down, in part due to a decline in the use of consulting best practices. According to the report, in 2013, only 69 percent of all respondents sometimes charge fixed or project fees, a decrease from 70 percent in 2011 and 77 percent

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The Thirsty Dog

DECEMBER 5, 2013

This post by Jason Price can be seen at The Thirsty Dog Blog - Seattle's Finest Blog on Business and Consulting by Jason Price. The first in a series by Jason Price focusing on the decline and impending demise of traditional print media in its current form as digital media emerges. The post Why Mainstream Print Media is Doomed in its Current Form appeared first on The Thirsty Dog Blog.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 11, 2013

'Counting transfer payments such as foods stamps, Medicaid, Medicare, and other government welfare, Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis shows the top 40% pay 106% of all taxes (more than all of them). In turn the bottom 60% get money back. Please consider The rich do not pay the most taxes, they pay ALL the taxes by CNBC reporter Jane Wells. Buried inside a Congressional Budget Office report this week was this nugget: when it comes to individual income taxes, the top 40 percent of wage ea

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 8, 2013

'If this is your first time joining us, we’ve spent the last 5 months traveling to top colleges across the planet – check out news from our latest gallivants to the U.K. , the Bay Area , and East Coast ( Harvard , Yale , Columbia , Georgetown , Duke and Georgia Tech ). *. The trip started off with a sparse few hours of sleep on a red-eye flight to Buffalo, NY.

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Strategy+Business

DECEMBER 1, 2013

'This year''s best business books on globalization examine the rising flood of companies from emerging markets. These companies not only will drive the process of economic convergence, but also will increasingly compete head-to-head around the world against established multinational corporations from developed economies.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 1, 2013

'You can create your own luck by expecting good fortune, having persistence, and embracing opportunities as they arise. IF you are like most people you probably appreciate the role that luck plays in finding a romantic partner. People spend large amounts of time attending parties, going to bars, and participating in bizarre social and sporting events.

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Women in Consulting

DECEMBER 10, 2013

'By: Linda Popky The post-Thanksgiving shopping frenzy started early this year, with some stores actually holding Black Friday sales on Thanksgiving evening. Just to complicate things, online merchants started holding Black Friday events, and some brick and mortar stores held Cyber Monday sales. And in the ultimate confusion, Honda had two full weeks of Black Friday sales events…huh?

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The Thirsty Dog

DECEMBER 31, 2013

This post by Jason Price can be seen at The Thirsty Dog Blog - Seattle's Finest Blog on Business and Consulting by Jason Price. Jason Price covers the impacts of social media and the commoditization of news have had on traditional print media as well as potential new revenue sources. The post Print Media Doom Part 3: News is a Commodity appeared first on The Thirsty Dog Blog.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 28, 2013

'The economic stupidity in France is astounding. It''s hard keeping up with all the inane ideas of President Francois Hollande''s socialist administration. Here''s another one of Hollande''s ideas for your amusement. RT reports French broadcasting watchdog CSA eager to tax YouTube, Facebook, Dailymotion France''s Superior Council of Audiovisual, an independent broadcasting authority, wants to impose taxes on media giants like YouTube, Facebook and Dailymotion to force them to contribute to finan

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 4, 2013

'We first met Rachel in September; she was nice and very unassuming. When we got her 1:1 in our New York Bootcamp, however, we were impressed with her experience, her depth of business understanding and her very solid motivations for her passion about consulting. This is a transcribed phone interview between Rachel (name changed) and Jenny Rae – enjoy her insights about failing the first time around but coming back for consulting success and landing an offer with McKinsey in her senior yea

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Strategy+Business

DECEMBER 1, 2013

'Listening, questioning, and moving others to act emerged as strong themes in business books offering managerial self-help this year. New books from veteran authors Edgar H. Schein and Daniel H. Pink were standouts, and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg''s hugely successful Lean In provided a clear example of the managerial practices that both men advocate in action.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 10, 2013

'Simon Sinek gives a ground breaking talk in which he explains the biological drivers of real leadership, and the natural chemicals ( endorphins , dopamine , serotonin and oxytocin ) that enable us to prosper, together.

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Gina Abudi

DECEMBER 4, 2013

'Remote (or virtual) teams are certainly not as easy to engage on a project or initiative as are teams that are co-located, especially if we are never able to get them to come together to meet each other face-to-face at least on occasion. If it easier to ignore others when we don’t see them every [.].

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The Thirsty Dog

DECEMBER 18, 2013

This post by Jason Price can be seen at The Thirsty Dog Blog - Seattle's Finest Blog on Business and Consulting by Jason Price. In this installment – Jason Price examines the effects of limited vision and strategy and the corresponding decline in advertising revenue have had in the print media industry. The post Print Media Doom Part 2: Lack of Vision and Strategy = Epic Fail appeared first on The Thirsty Dog Blog.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 13, 2013

'Over the past four days "pitchfork protests" have spread to numerous cities, disrupting road and rail travel in protest of the state of the economy. The pitchfork movement started with a loose group of Sicilian farmers concerned about rising taxes and cuts to agricultural state funds, then evolved into a nationwide umbrella grouping of truckers, small businessman, the unemployed, low-paid workers, rightwing extremists and ultras football supporters according to IBTimes.

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Seth Godin Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2013

'Vampires, of course, feed on something that we desperately need but also can''t imagine being a source of food. You have metaphorical vampires in your life. These are people that feed on negativity, on shooting down ideas and most of all, on extinguishing your desire to make things better. Why would someone do that? Why would they rush to respond to a heartfelt and generous blog post with a snide comment about a typo in the third line?

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Strategy+Business

DECEMBER 1, 2013

'No matter what your business, three emerging digital phenomena--big data, socialstructing, and spreadable media--will create major changes in how you do what you do. This year''s best business books on digitization can equip you to better understand all three and the changes that they will enable and engender.

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