Management Consulted
SEPTEMBER 16, 2013
'Welcome…to the final day, the crowning achievement, of our 2013 8-day East Coast (we counted our final travel day too). If you’re just joining us, check out Harvard , Yale , Columbia , Georgetown , Duke and Georgia Tech ‘s highlights. Despite all we’d seen and done on our tour already, Sunday was the biggest day of the whole tour – our 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square.
Consultant Ninja
SEPTEMBER 18, 2013
'My works won''t be worn away by the sands of time, with faint echoes of greatness that the sleuth can uncover, ponder, and imagine. They''ll be buried under a billion bits of information worker detrius - the daily shedding of dead data inside the corporate organism. Having fun along the way can never be taken away and is binarily different from a daily loathing; meanwhile, while the analog gap between making an impact and just pushing the paper fades to zero as time progresses.
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Women in Consulting
SEPTEMBER 19, 2013
'By: Mary Beth Deans How to ask for feedback: Feedback is an important part of professional and personal development; you really do need to know what you’re doing right and where you may need support. It can be tough to ask for–and sometimes people aren’t comfortable delivering it–but unfocused feedback isn’t very helpful. So here are three little steps to help you get started.
MishTalk
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
'Move over Detroit. The fiscal crisis in Chicago is far bigger. Pensions 31% funded. Moody''s downgraded Chicago Debt 3 Notches (just 4 steps above junk). City debt on negative watch. Pension Liability is $61,000 Per Household ($23,000 Per Capita). Via email, Ted Dabrowski at the Illinois Policy Center writes. While all eyes are focused on a solution for Illinois’ state-run pension systems, Chicago’s own debt crisis is looming.
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Management Consulted
SEPTEMBER 15, 2013
'Welcome back to Tour Throwback Week. We hustled up and down the U.S. East Coast, visiting Georgia Tech , Duke , Georgetown , and Columbia , Yale, and Harvard. Check out our adventures and misadventures before reading today’s post. If you want a small group setting to accelerate your case interview performance (like, 0-60 in a day) join us next weekend in San Francisco – September 21 for our last 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp in the U.S. this year (includes a full resume/cover let
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Seth Godin Blog
SEPTEMBER 15, 2013
'Same waves, different day. The risk of skin cancer. The falling. Sand in your socks. The people hassling you for your spot on the wave. The pressure to do more sets. The other guys at the beach who don''t appreciate your style. The drudgery of doing it again tomorrow, when the weather sucks. And then every day, from now on, never ceasing. Where would you go on vacation?
MishTalk
SEPTEMBER 20, 2013
'For the alleged reason of efficiency, Target to hire fewer seasonal holiday workers. Target (TGT) plans to hire about 70,000 seasonal workers for the holiday shopping season, down about 20 percent from a year ago. The discounter is aiming to be more efficient in its hiring practices. The move to hire 18,000 fewer temporary holiday workers versus last year''s 88,000 comes as the Minneapolis-based chain saw that its own permanent employees wanted to get first dibs on working extra hours for the h
Management Consulted
SEPTEMBER 14, 2013
'Welcome back to Tour Throwback Week. We’re recapping our lives as road warriors via planes, trains and automobiles…we visited Georgia Tech , Duke , Georgetown , and Columbia before rolling over to today’s campus…Yale. If you missed us, we are generally funny. Go back through our previous posts and laugh with us. If you are convinced that – on top of our expertise in consulting interviews – we’re also fun, come hang out with us next weekend in San Franci
Chad Barr
SEPTEMBER 18, 2013
This week’s reflection point: This past Monday, my wife and I were traveling to Charleston from Orlando. We had a connection through Charlotte. The first leg of our journey began with a huge delay out of Orlando which was concerning since we knew we had only one hour between flights. As soon as we landed I checked my flight tracking which showed a one-hour delay for the second flight.
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Seth Godin Blog
SEPTEMBER 18, 2013
'It''s more of a skirmish, actually. Plenty of recruiters and those in HR like to talk about engaging in a war for talent, but to be truthful, most of it is about finding good enough people at an acceptable rate of pay. Filling slots. More relevant and urgent, though, is that it''s not really a search for talent. It''s a search for attitude. There are a few jobs where straight up skills are all we ask for.
MishTalk
SEPTEMBER 14, 2013
'In response to several recent posts on disability fraud, I received several interesting emails from readers. Reader Ervin writes. Hi Mish, I have a niece and nephew in their early thirties. Both are perfectly healthy. They have a son with a slight learning disability. The mom got him on disability and then applied for funds to take care of him and got it.
Martinka Consulting
SEPTEMBER 18, 2013
'To the surprise of nobody who drives, J.D. Power and Associates released a study stating that Prius drivers are the worst drivers on the road. Yes, Prius drivers have replaced Subaru drivers as the ones most likely to be in the left lane going under the speed limit when traffic is going at or above the speed limit (in my opinion). Over Labor Day weekend we went to Video Only and said we needed a new TV as our plasma one was getting more and more red speckles on the black areas.
Gina Abudi
SEPTEMBER 19, 2013
'It isn’t easy, nor practical, to try to delegate projects to team members to accomplish when they plates are so full anyway that they can’t possibly take on another task. To delegate projects effectively, consider these best practices to ensure you are creating a culture and environment where your team has the time to take [.].
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Seth Godin Blog
SEPTEMBER 20, 2013
'Who gets your best work? If you reserve your best effort for the irritable boss, the never-pleased client and the bully of a customer, then you''ve bought into a system that rewards the very people who are driving you nuts. It''s no wonder you have clients like that--they get your best work. On the other hand, when you make it clear (and then deliver) on the promise that your best work goes to those that are clear, respectful and patient, you become a specialist in having customers just like th
MishTalk
SEPTEMBER 15, 2013
'Anyone smart enough to withdraw from the race to replace Ben Bernanke as next Fed chairman must have something on the ball, at least temporarily. The Larry Summers'' haters got their wish today as Summers withdrew his name from consideration. Summers called president Obama, then issued a a formal withdrawal letter stating " I have reluctantly concluded that any possible confirmation process for me would be acrimonious and would not serve the interest of the Federal Reserve, the Administration o
Strategy+Business
SEPTEMBER 15, 2013
'Planning and performance management systems can be designed to reinforce your most distinctive capabilities--not undermine them.
1 to 1
SEPTEMBER 18, 2013
'Last week I heard a story that struck a chord. I was told that some time ago, British soccer player Wayne Rooney walked into a real estate agent''s office dressed down in jeans and a hoodie. The receptionist made the assumption that he was not able to afford buying a property and didn''t treat Rooney as a potential customer. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.
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Seth Godin Blog
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
'Everyone has a set point, a need/tolerance for a certain amount of drama in a life. I''m not talking about important work, I''m highlighting the excitment and tension that surrounds the things that happen to us (or might happen). The newspaper is always just about the same length, regardless of what''s happening in the world. Politicians seem to have the capacity to deal with a given amount of tough stuff.
MishTalk
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
'Here are a few interesting charts of M1 money supply vs. Real GDP/10 from reader WendyBG. Data. GDP. M1. M1 consists of: (1) currency outside the U.S. Treasury, Federal reserve Banks, and the vaults of depository institutions; (2) traveler''s checks of nonbank issuers; (3) demand deposits; and (4) other checkable deposits (OCDs), which consist primarily of negotiable order of withdrawal (NOW) accounts at depository institutions and credit union share draft accounts.
Gina Abudi
SEPTEMBER 18, 2013
'Delegating Issues to be Resolved When there is a problem that arises within the department, don’t feel that you, as the manager, must solve it yourself. You may be able to delegate the problem to your team members, who may be closer to the situation and may have more expertise, to resolve it. Certainly you [.].
1 to 1
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
'Over the years, there have been quite a few technologies that have emerged that offer the double threat of strengthening the customer experience while improving operational efficiency. These include self-service tools, mobile field service applications, and systems used to support crowdservice forums. Add inContact''s new outbound predictive dialing system to the mix.
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Seth Godin Blog
SEPTEMBER 16, 2013
'We are capable of abandoning, bullying, raping, murdering, belittling, undermining, objectifying, cheating, stealing, ignoring, maligning, spamming, excoriating and arguing. And the very same people can support, trust, connect, lead, inspire, invent, illuminate and wait patiently. The extraordinary thing is that we''ve built a society where the second category pays off more than it ever has before.
MishTalk
SEPTEMBER 16, 2013
'Common sense won out twice in Wisconsin in the past two weeks. On September 11, Wisconsin Act 10 upheld in another federal court challenge. A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed one of the lawsuits challenging Act 10, Gov. Scott Walker’s budget repair bill in 2011 that eliminated most collective bargaining powers held by Wisconsin public unions. U.S.
Gina Abudi
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
'Delegating is important – and not just so that you can pass work on to someone else to do. When individual contributors move into management roles, it is essential that they learn how to effectively delegate work to their team so that you can manage the tasks that must be accomplished to run the department [.].
Strategy+Business
SEPTEMBER 19, 2013
'Even large organizations can innovate with trimmed budgets. But what''s needed to make the scaled-down innovation strategy work is a supportive corporate culture, strong team integration, and a complete commitment to the low-cost strategy.
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