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Consulting Networking: 6 Best Practice Guidelines

Tom Spencer

Generally speaking, strengths fall under three categories: Skills – e.g. accounting, finance, data analysis. However, despite this, hiring someone only to watch them leave within a year is not in any firm’s interests given the amount of money that consulting firms invest in training and development.

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How Fear Helps (and Hurts) Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business

We interviewed 65 entrepreneurs in the UK and Canada. We defined fear of failure as a temporary cognitive and emotional reaction to a threat to potential achievement. Our research revealed four strategies that enable entrepreneurs to ensure that fear of failure works positively: Emotional self-monitoring and control.

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KPMG Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

In the mid 1970s, as public opinion swayed toward greater accountability for the finance industry, Peat Marwick took steps to firm up controls on its accounting practice and increase transparency. Capabilities: Finance. KPMG CONSULTING INTERVIEWS & RECRUITING. KPMG CONSULTING ORGANIZATION. Practice Areas. Human Resources.

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The Fundamentals of Leadership Still Haven’t Changed

Harvard Business

Recently the Chief HR Officer for a healthcare firm asked us to identify the best new framework for leadership that she could use to train and develop a cadre of high potentials. We interviewed over forty successful leaders from a variety of organizations (corporate, non-profit, startup), across different industries.