Management Consulted

MARCH 16, 2014

'Is consulting right for you? This question has two parts. The first part involves deciding whether working at a consulting firm would be a great fit and a great next step for you career-wise. If you don’t know about consulting at all, first watch Why Go Into Consulting? The second part – the one we cover in this post – requires you to judge whether you are the type of candidate top consulting firms, especially the ones you are applying for, are looking to hire.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 3, 2014

'Ideas matter, stick with it, and figure out the right measure of success. (Source: Youtube ). STEVE Ballmer spoke today at Oxford’s Said Business School , the world’s leading business community creating ideas with global impact. A few hours later, he spoke at the Oxford Union , the world’s most prestigious debating society. We were fortunate to attend the second talk, and wanted to communicate the three tips for start ups that Ballmer shared with the audience.

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Women in Consulting

MARCH 25, 2014

'By: Jennifer LeBlanc. Following up to last week’s post, here’s the second half of what I learned at Wisdom 2.0, a technology and wisdom conference I attended Feb. 14-17 in San Francisco. One of the “tents” at the Inspiration Village at Wisdom 2.0. As I mentioned last week, the conference was about exploring the intersection between technology and wisdom, with leaders from Google, Facebook, Linked In and other tech companies with mindfulness leaders such as Eckhart Tolle, Jon Kabat-Zinn, with a

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Melissa Agnes

MARCH 13, 2014

'By now, we’ve all heard of the terrible crisis Malaysia Airlines is facing with flight MH370 appearing to have vanished out of thin air with over 200 passengers and crew members aboard. It’s an unthinkable situation, though one that every airline needs to be prepared to properly manage at any given time. So how is Malaysia Airlines handling this crisis?

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MishTalk

MARCH 15, 2014

'Several people sent me a video by Carey Wedler. I just played it. It''s short, accurate, and one of the most powerful videos I have ever seen. Please play it and pass it on. Link if video does not play: Why I''m burning my last bridge with Obama. President Obama promised " change you can believe in ". As Wedler shows, people believed but there was no change.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

MARCH 17, 2014

'How are you involving millenials in your organization''s work? This is a question we''ve all been hearing a lot lately. But I''m not sure that I like some of the answers. I''ve been in several conversations and meetings in recent months where the idea of creating a "millenial advisory group" was brought up. It was generally agreed among my peers (those of us between 40 and 65) that the younger generation may not be ready for the responsibility of being on a board of directors.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 13, 2014

'The illusion of permanence, and the persistence of innovation. (Source: Tom Spencer ). IN a recent FT article , Chairman of Risk Capital Partners Luke Johnson made some interesting comments about his alma mater, Oxford University: Oxford University, my alma mater, is a classic case of a complacent establishment that is refusing to reinvent itself.

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Women in Consulting

MARCH 20, 2014

'By: Jennifer LeBlanc. Taking a break from my usual marketing-specific topics to do a review of a technology and wisdom conference I attended Feb. 14-17 called Wisdom 2.0 in San Francisco. The conference was about exploring the intersection between technology and wisdom, with leaders from Google, Facebook, Linked In and other tech companies with mindfulness leaders such as Eckhart Tolle, Jon Kabat-Zinn, with a sprinkling of leading scientists in neuroscience.

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Melissa Agnes

MARCH 3, 2014

'Twitter is the social media platform that dominates the dissemination of news, updates and discussions in a crisis. In fact, making your crisis communications “Twitter-friendly” is rule number 9 within our “ 10 New Rules of Crisis Communications “ But is the platform losing its steam and, if so, what will that mean for your crisis communications ?

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MishTalk

MARCH 20, 2014

'IndexToday has an interesting story on a Ukraine Wealth Tax. The Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk proposed on Wednesday 19th of March 2014 the adoption of taxes on wealth of the richest Ukrainians in order to tackle the economic crisis in the country, clarifying that the law will apply to him as well. The Ukrainian prime minister stated that the proposed tax measures should apply on deposits more than 50,000 hryvnia (less than 4,000 euros).

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Strategy+Business

MARCH 28, 2014

'All companies say they want to establish a safer and more sustainable workplace, but they often struggle to turn those intentions into reality. For AkzoNobel, the solution began by standardizing processes across all of its facilities.

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Gina Abudi

MARCH 27, 2014

'The first four stages of the team development model was proposed and developed by Bruce Tuckman in 1965. In 1977, Tuckman teamed up with Mary Ann Jensen and added the 5th stage – adjourning. Every team goes through the five stages of team development; there are no exceptions. Regardless of whether a team is [.]. The post The Five Stages of Team Development and the Role of the Project Manager appeared first on Gina Abudi.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 16, 2014

'Understanding the big picture can help reveal hidden opportunities and threats. 1. Background. In 1967, Harvard Professor Francis Aguilar wrote a book entitled “Scanning the Business Environment” in which he identified four important factors – Economic, Technical, Political, and Social – that a business can use to better understand the big picture.

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Women in Consulting

MARCH 6, 2014

'By: Jennifer LeBlanc Everyone knows how important blogging is these days and if you have a corporate blog, you know it’s a hungry bird that needs a lot of filling. You also know how important it is to have that content be optimized so search engines will find your great content. So what’s your corporate blogging plan? Here are three quick tips to keep the blog content flowing and working hard for your brand: Have an editorial calendar.

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Melissa Agnes

MARCH 18, 2014

'By Judith Delaney, Attorney and member of Agnes + Day’s Crisis Intelligence Team. As part of my contribution to the Agnes + Day team I have the opportunity to share with you developments around the world relating to protecting the privacy of all people when they either voluntarily or out of necessity, like purchasing an airline ticket, provide their personal and private information via digital platforms.

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MishTalk

MARCH 1, 2014

'The following bullet points are from the French Ipos Poll: New French fractures, results and analysis of the Ipsos/Steria. Although a huge majority of French want to stay on the Euro, a majority of "workers" don''t. Poll Conclusions 79% distrust the outside world 72% have no confidence in the French National Assembly 74% think journalists do not write about the real problems 66% think there are too many foreigners in France 63% say Islam is not compatible with values of French society 84% think

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Strategy+Business

MARCH 3, 2014

'Business experts say a wealth of new products and ideas will flow from emerging economies to developed markets--but real-world examples are hard to find.

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Gina Abudi

MARCH 26, 2014

'Sponsors/Key Stakeholder Communications. See Part I for the first part of this article on team communications. In this post we’ll approach communications from the perspective of sponsors and other key stakeholders. Managing your sponsors and key stakeholders is essential to ensure your project meets their needs. We want to control our communications – meeting the [.].

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 31, 2014

'The key is to know when correlation is enough, and what to do when it is not. David Ritter , director at BCG , has explored the world of big data and when companies should take action based on observed correlations in the data. His ideas have big implications for business because, if correlation is enough, then instead of having to know what causes customers to act, it may be enough just to know what things tend to happen together.

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Women in Consulting

MARCH 4, 2014

'By: Mary Beth Deans From the beginning of the Industrial Age in the west, Europe and North America built their wealth thanks to a consumer society. Consumers bought things, driving demand for more goods and providing jobs for more people. People moved to urban centers where factories, then industrial parks, grew and grew. The need for managers grew as more employees were hired; managers needed to be better educated than their direct reports, so the demand for college education increased.

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Melissa Agnes

MARCH 24, 2014

'Conducting one’s self appropriately online seems like common sense. However, it has recently come to my attention how students, young adults – and yes, even professionals – simply have not yet realized the depth of the risk involved with posting and publishing to social media. What seems like common sense to many of us is simple naivety to so many others.

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MishTalk

MARCH 4, 2014

'Two more bitcoin exchanges were robbed in the past few days. "Flexcoin" lost all online coins and shut its doors. Flexcoin admitted it did not have resources to cover 896 stolen bitcoins, worth £365,000 (about $608,200). Bitcoins in Flexcoin''s "cold storage" (offline), for which depositors have to pay a fee, were not affected. "Poloniex", the other hacked bitcoin site, admitted that it is missing 12.3% of its assets because of a flaw in its transaction system.

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Strategy+Business

MARCH 5, 2014

'In What Works for Women at Work , Joan C. Williams and Rachel Dempsey identify four, often unrecognized, patterns of discriminatory attitudes toward women.

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Gina Abudi

MARCH 25, 2014

'Team Communications Too often I hear project managers tell me that they lose control of their projects – specifically around conmunications. Too much is going on and they can’t keep up with everything, no one is communicating in a way that works for others and it seems that the sponsor and other key stakeholders are [.]. The post Keeping Control of Your Projects - Part I appeared first on Gina Abudi.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 20, 2014

'Are you excited, nervous or a little bit scared ? Your comfort zone, as the name suggests, is a comfortable place. It feels safe and secure to be there, because you’ve been there many times before. Nothing unexpected is likely to happen. Nothing you haven’t seen before. And certainly nothing out of the ordinary. But ordinary is not what you’re aiming for, is it?

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