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Ensuring Good Performance: How Consultancies Keep Their Employees Motivated

Tom Spencer

Fancy hotels and dinners, social contacts in the business world, and a reputation as a high achiever can tip the scale for some people. Clients expect fast results; meanwhile, hiring more consultants to do the same job is not efficient, since much more time has to be spent on knowledge transfer.

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3 Steps to Cultivate an Innovation Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

This culture emphasizes efficient, reliable, and cost-effective performance. Benchmarking in the process of creating a culture of innovation in hotel companies. Market Culture creates a competitive, fast-paced, results-oriented environment. This culture highlights coming in first. Note: Adapted from Cameron and Quinn (2011).

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The Myth of a Psychologically Safe Workplace

Organizational Talent Consulting

And after picking up our rental car at the airport, we realized we didn’t have the address to our hotel. Getting to where you are going I learned an important life lesson on a business trip to Puerto Rico, traveling with a good friend. I could count on him for directions. The GPS could tell us where we were in the world.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

As usual getting into McKinsey is tough, but it’s even tougher in NYC – with many target recruiting schools nearby and hundreds of aspirants swarming to locate in NY, it’s a highly competitive office. Fun fact: the project’s installation of energy-efficient lighting was one of New York City’s largest lighting retrofits ever.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms in Washington, DC

Management Consulted

The Washington, DC office’s recruitment team hires highly intelligent people who start as great communicators but are trainable. The space makes use of a set-up known as “hoteling,” in which staffers aren’t assigned a designated work space. They reserve one only on days when they plan to come to the office. Cool, or not?

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Technology and Wisdom: Where and How Do They Intersect in Life, Work and Play? (Part 2)

Women in Consulting

Oh, and they will pick you up at the airport for free, take you on a tour of Zappos and then back to your hotel. 100% recruiter efficiency. Takeaway: Becoming a big company allows you to give back to your community in a big way. Nicely done marketing! By the next day, job offers went out to those they wanted. The results?

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What Platforms Do Differently than Traditional Businesses

Harvard Business

They operate platforms that make it easy and efficient for participants to connect and exchange value. Instead, they recruit participants, and then sell each group of participants access to the other group of participants. Airbnb, which seems to have come out of nowhere, is challenging the global hotel industry.