Management Consulted

JULY 19, 2015

Ramit is a junior at Duke University who successfully aced his on campus interview. However, he did receive some puzzling feedback from his interviewers, leading him to contact Jenny Rae to guide him through how to use the input constructively for his final interview on site at BCG. Read on for some insightful answers as to how interviewers perceive your answers, how to communicate personality and relatability without coming across too informally, and developing rapport with your interviewer.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 23, 2015

Strategy involves understanding your current position, deciding on a destination, and charting a course from here to there. Culture is about who you are, and why you do things. Culture is arguably more important than strategy because, if you look at it over the lifetime of a product or an organisation, the culture is the only thing that will really matter.

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Killer Consultant

JULY 21, 2015

Oftentimes, your head just fills with things to remember. Your client asked you for something after the meeting when you were standing in the hallway… There was that direct message on internal chat that you wanted to follow up on… Dry cleaning must be picked up on Thursday, but the store closes at 7 not 8 this week… And so on, and so forth….

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MishTalk

JULY 18, 2015

Fourth Greek Election Since 2012 Coming Up? It appears that way. Now that the vote for servitude is a done deal, the ensuing Greek Reshuffle Hints at Autumn Election. Alexis Tsipras, Greece’s prime minister, appears to be preparing the nation for a snap general election in September or October after carrying out a government reshuffle that removed dissident ministers from his radical leftist Syriza party.

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Chad Barr

JULY 22, 2015

This week’s reflection point: My clients often refer to me as their cyber strategist. So as I was reflecting about the essence of a successful cyber strategy it occurred to me that the acronym stands for: C ontent that is amazing and provokes others. Y ou have the biggest impact on your success. B reakthrough offerings and relationships. E volution of intellectual property and reduced stagnation.

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Gina Abudi

JULY 21, 2015

Last year, three particular projects in which I was involved with clients was focused on managing the change management and communication process for large technology projects the clients were undertaking within the organization. I’d like to focus this article on one of those projects where the client did not quite recognize the need for change [.].

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MishTalk

JULY 23, 2015

In spite of near continuous ceasefire breakages on both sides in Ukraine, media has turned its attention elsewhere, especially to Greece and China. Today I have some Ukraine anecdotes from reader Steven, who lives in Prague. He has family ties to Ukraine. Steven writes. Hi Mish, Here are two forced conscription "recruiting" news items. Recruiters waited inside the doors of a large bread factory one morning last week as 300 workers were coming in.

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Strategy+Business

JULY 23, 2015

Product returns are typically seen as a necessary headache and a cost drain. But companies can use their return policies to enhance customer loyalty and increase profits.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 22, 2015

Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote , doesn’t like the word “cannibalisation” because it’s zero sum. It implies that you’re the guy doing the eating or being eaten. He says being in business is not like playing a sport or being in warfare. It’s more like music, it’s more like art. It’s not a zero sum game. I absolutely agree with Libin, and in the long run his view is the only healthy and constructive way to think about business.

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Gina Abudi

JULY 22, 2015

In order to effectively engage stakeholders, and to keep them engaged, the following skills are essential for project managers to have: Ability to build relationships with others Understanding the perspective of stakeholders – their concerns and challenges about the project Interviewing skills to understand the needs and wants of stakeholders Strong verbal and written communication [.].

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MishTalk

JULY 24, 2015

After being net long all the way from $1900 to $1100, Bloomberg reports Hedge Funds Are Holding First-Ever Gold Net-Short Position. Hedge funds are holding the first ever bet on a decline in gold prices since the U.S. government started collecting the data in 2006. The funds and other speculators shifted to a net-short position of 11,345 contracts in New York futures and options in the week ended July 21, according to figures from the U.S.

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Martinka Consulting

JULY 20, 2015

My friend and career coach Matt Youngquist with Career Horizons (www.career-horizons.com) recently published his June newsletter with the following statements. Less than 20% of all hiring that takes place in today’s market occurs from submitting a resume or application to a published Internet opportunity. Such listings are often the most rigid and competitive method for getting hired.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 21, 2015

Economists love to talk about “scarcity” and the fact that we live in a world of limited resources. However, in the digital world this need not necessarily be the case. Phil Libin of Evernote is of the view that if you’re in a traditional industry like minerals extraction or transportation, then customers will either go for your stuff or your competitors stuff, but almost certainly not both.

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Killer Consultant

JULY 19, 2015

Some small things just make life easier when travelling. Pretty near the top comes one of the cheapest accessories: Small resealable plastic bags. In Europe, we have been forced to put all liquids in plastic bags of 1 litre capacity for some years now. It turns out, those bags come in handy for many purposes. One I want to share with you today: Keeping an unused tie clean and wrinkle-free!

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MishTalk

JULY 21, 2015

SuperBull Club RBC Capital Markets chief U.S. market strategist Jonathan Golub joined the SuperBull Club today. Golub says Years Left to Go in S&P 500 Bull Market. The U.S. economy’s slow recovery may extend another six years, potentially doubling the duration of the bull market in equities, according to RBC Capital Markets chief U.S. market strategist Jonathan Golub.

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Seth Godin Blog

JULY 24, 2015

The opposite of creativity is fear. And fear's enemy is creativity. The opposite of yes is maybe. Because maybe is non-definitive, and both yes and no give us closure and the chance to move ahead. Perfect is the enemy of good. Us is not the enemy of them. Us is the opposite of alone. They can become us as soon as we permit it. Everything is the opposite of okay.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 20, 2015

Big data (combined with data analytics and machine learning) offers exciting opportunities to decipher patterns and solve complex problems more quickly and cheaply than ever before, but it also has the potential to infringe the privacy of individual users. Looking at a company like Evernote, which uses a freemium business model to help tens of millions of people be more productive at work, it would be easy to think that there is an inherent trade off between providing a free service and dealing

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This White Paper targets opportunities for Management to develop proficiency in the Decision Framing and Analyses element of input to Decision, & Risk Analyses for Major Project Funding Decisions.

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Gina Abudi

JULY 23, 2015

Background: The members of your project team are in serious conflict. They have split into two camps. The last team meeting was a disaster with four members of the team sitting on one side of the table and the other four on the other side. You could feel the tension in the air. You ended [.]. The post Case Study: Resolving Serious Conflict between Team Members appeared first on Gina Abudi.

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MishTalk

JULY 22, 2015

Several readers sent me this extremely well executed musical parody of Grease, on Greece. Link if video does not play: Greece Crisis, the Musical "Grease" Parody Mike "Mish" Shedlock [link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction.

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Seth Godin Blog

JULY 19, 2015

Of course, self-belief is more than just common advice. It's at the heart of selling, of creating, of shipping, of leadership. Telling someone, "believe in yourself," is often worthless, though, because it's easier said than done. Perhaps the alternative is: "Do work you can believe in.". Not trust, verification. Not believing that one day you'll do worthwhile work.

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Strategy+Business

JULY 19, 2015

Revolutionary changes in the delivery, financing, and management of healthcare present a choice: Do you want to be a gold miner or a bartender?

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Henry DeVries

JULY 22, 2015

Writing articles and books is a great marketing technique. But what is fair when it comes to quoting the copyrighted works of others? There is a saying that the faculty members use at my university: “Stealing from one person is called plagiarism, and you will get fired. Stealing from many, and [.

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MishTalk

JULY 21, 2015

25,000 French Farmers Face Bankruptcy In France, no matter how inefficient the business, the proposed solution is typically higher prices rather than to let weak businesses go under. And so it is again. Hollande's remedy for farmers facing bankruptcy is not to preach against overproduction, inefficiencies, or the inane trade embargo with Russia, but rather to encourage shops to raise prices.

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Seth Godin Blog

JULY 23, 2015

You believe you have a great idea, a hit record, a press release worth running, a company worth funding. You know that the customer should use your limited-offer discount code, that the sponsor should run an ad, that the admissions office should let you in. You know that the fast-growing company should hire you, and you're ready to throw your (excellent) resume over the transom.

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Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC

JULY 22, 2015

You've just had an urgent problem dumped on your desk, posed to you in a meeting, or presented to you by a client. The situation is tense. Emotions are starting to flare, and all eyes are looking to you to act. What do you do? Do you react with a knee-jerk solution? Do you calm the situation with an acceptable solution? Or, do you stop, think, and work to identify a solution that's going to allow you to think, "I'm glad I took the time to think that through"?

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