David A Fields
DECEMBER 21, 2016
Many readers know that I’m 6’1″ tall… if my posture is perfect, I think tall thoughts and I stand on two tins of homemade, coconut dream bars. Is that tall? Short? I only know if I have some sort of standard for comparison. Consultants often look at benchmarks to gauge their recent performance. Those are internal benchmarks.
Management Consulted
DECEMBER 18, 2016
One of the most daunting things about case interviews is the uncertainty you’re faced with as you step inside the door. You have no way of knowing what they’re going to ask you, and they could ask you absolutely anything they want to. What if your interviewer is having a bad day and just feels like asking impossible questions?! Well, that’s what our frameworks are for.
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Tom Spencer
DECEMBER 17, 2016
This is a guest post from Marguerite Arnold. It is not just the stunning reversal of fortune for Hillary Clinton at the beginning of November which has stimulated a renewed interest in more diversity in the world of start-ups, and FinTech in particular. The conversation has been underway for quite some time. Part of the drive for diversity, to be honest, is caused by a failure of women to rise to the top in most large businesses – including the financial services, banking or tech industries, des
Chad Barr
DECEMBER 21, 2016
All of us at The Chad Barr Group wish you and yours a season of warmth, joy and peace. Thank you for allowing us to be a part of your journey to success. The post Happy Holidays appeared first on The Chad Barr Group.
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Harvard Business
DECEMBER 19, 2016
Since the 1960s, Asian Americans have become the country’s “model minority,” largely due to significant increases in mobility that have mostly (though perhaps inaccurately ) been attributed to education. Asians do outperform other minorities and white people when it comes to education, employment, and income. According to 2010 data from the U.S.
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Tom Spencer
DECEMBER 21, 2016
This is a guest post from John Cole. Being boss doesn’t mean you get to demand results – it means creating the conditions for those results to be achieved. If you’re running your own business and are responsible for a team, you’ve probably cast a judgmental eye over some of the trendy quirks and gimmicks that your contemporaries in some of the better-known start-ups have applied to their workspaces.
MishTalk
DECEMBER 21, 2016
Bondholder bail-ins are on the way in Italy as private investors pulled the plug on a bank rescue. Rome plans a €20 billion bank bailout, but under eurozone rules junior bondholders have to take a hit. (more…).
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 21, 2016
Twenty-three years ago, one of my employees — I’ll call him Dale — asked for a private meeting. Dale was serious and bookish and had very strong opinions. His work was fastidious. He rarely socialized with colleagues, but he was impeccable in his commitments to others. And he was skilled at his job. As I closed the door to our huddle room, he came straight to the point, “Joseph, I’d like to offer you some feedback.” I had expected a different agenda.
Strategy+Business
DECEMBER 18, 2016
Every senior executive fears getting a message from a shareholder activist, but increasingly, activists are intent on overhauling the operations of the company in ways that boost its long-term value.
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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
Consultants' Consultant
DECEMBER 18, 2016
Consultants Consultant: Get control of your free time – it’s worth the 15 minutes. The exercises she suggests will be useful: pre-view a performance review for next year – what did you achieve? family holiday letter looking back on next year – what did you and the family get done? Then each week make a list for […]. The post Get more time appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.
BCG
DECEMBER 19, 2016
Article Monday, December 19, 2016. The chemical industry was once a top value creator, generating a five-year total shareholder return (TSR) above that of every other industry in BCG’s annual Value Creators ranking. Today, the industry is one of the more challenged. Its median TSR from 2011 through 2015 was 9.5%, considerably below the 12% median of the 28 industries we tracked.
MishTalk
DECEMBER 21, 2016
German media is solidly behind Angela Merkel as the US media was behind Hillary Clinton. German reporting of the recent terrorist truck incident was in a single word “pathetic” Thanks to chancellor Merkel, it’s politically incorrect to presume refugees are a problem. Worse yet, the media cooperates. (more…).
Strategy+Business
DECEMBER 20, 2016
In her new book, Earning It, veteran Wall Street Journal reporter Joanne Lublin chronicles the travails and triumphs of women who have risen to the highest positions in corporate America.
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Harvard Business
DECEMBER 21, 2016
Every fall, tens of thousands of law students compete for a small number of coveted summer associateships at the country’s top law firms. The stakes are high: getting one of these rare internships virtually guarantees full-time employment after law school. The salaries are unbeatable, six-figure sums that catapult young students to the top 5% of household incomes nationally and are often quadruple of those offered in other sectors of legal practice.
Consultants' Consultant
DECEMBER 20, 2016
Consultants Consultant: If you’ve planned something and not followed through on it at any stage in your life, this may help. This article summarises the 4 quadrants of 4 quadrant leadership, and then suggests applying each of the 4 styles of management to yourself when you’re managing yourself towards your own goals. Food for thought! Four quadrant […].
MishTalk
DECEMBER 18, 2016
Financial Times writer Wolfgang Münchau says Reform the Economic System Now or the Populists Will Do It. “It is one thing to say, as some of us have done, that the western liberal elites should stop doubling down when faced with a populist threat. But beyond that, what should they actually do? ” asks Münchau. (more…).
Seth Godin Blog
DECEMBER 18, 2016
It's not enough. There are more people, better off, with more freedom, more agency and more power than at any other time in our history. That's not enough. As we use technology and culture to create more health, more access and more dignity for more people, we keep reminding ourselves how inadequate it is in the face of the injustice and pain that remains.
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Harvard Business
DECEMBER 21, 2016
Tina was at a crossroads. Her daughter had recently left for college, and her husband had his own pursuits. And although she’d once enjoyed banking, she now bore little interest in her work. For some time, she had been asking herself whether she should quit. But what would her colleagues and bosses think of her? This stream of consciousness carried Tina to deeper, more revealing questions.
Consultants' Consultant
DECEMBER 18, 2016
Consultants Consultant: I love the stuff that Eric Barker pulls together because it’s always backed by research, and it’s beautifully cross-referenced. You can enter his site, barking the wrong tree and follow links till the cows come home! How To Be Successful: 6 New Shortcuts Backed By Research is a great read that reminds you of things you […].
MishTalk
DECEMBER 19, 2016
On December 9, a panel of 3 judges in the Netherlands convicted Geert Wilders of incitement to discrimination, and also of insulting an ethnic group. Nonetheless, the two most recent polls show Geert Wilders, an anti-Islam, anti-migration politician far ahead of the pack. (more…).
Seth Godin Blog
DECEMBER 23, 2016
About twenty years ago, Permission Marketing was getting ready to go to the publisher. We sent a copy to Jack Trout, co-author of the classic book, Positioning. Surprisingly, Jack replied with a long letter, letting us know that my book was based on a fundamentally flawed idea, that it would never work and we'd be better off not even publishing it.
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Harvard Business
DECEMBER 20, 2016
Innovation is critical in a knowledge economy — driving growth, new products, and new methods of delivering value to customers. According to PwC’s 2015 study on Global Innovation , U.S. companies spend $145 billion dollars in-country on R&D each year. And yet, despite its importance, innovation is a difficult quality to cultivate both in leaders and in organizations.
Strategy+Business
DECEMBER 19, 2016
The growing array of immersive entertainment experiences carries unforeseen implications for content owners and creators.
MishTalk
DECEMBER 19, 2016
The idea there would be close to 37 defects in the electoral college was so ridiculous I did not bother to report on it. Today, people braved the cold and waved banners to the electors stating “we need you” and “vote your conscience” Such misguided fools did not really want the electors to vote their conscience, as the following sign explains.
Seth Godin Blog
DECEMBER 22, 2016
It took 500 years to figure out how to make something this magical, this permanent, this heartfelt. and get it delivered to you in time for the holidays, for just a few bucks. You may have heard of most of these, which makes them even more likely to be welcome gifts. They are always the right size and they show you to be a person of good taste and generosity.
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