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Brews, News and Booz & Company: Interview and Culture Insights

Management Consulted

With such an impressive list of early clients (including the United States of America), it is no wonder that by the end of the 1950s, Time Magazine dubbed Booz Allen Hamilton the “world’s largest, most prestigious management consulting firms.” They keep a strong emphasis on research and quarterly produce a magazine, strategy + business.

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Hay Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Not only did they launch PayNet, the first ever online portal for pay data, they also carried out their first ‘World’s Most Admired Companies’ review for Fortune Magazine. Things continued in this vein, with Daniel Goleman using Hay Group research to publish “Working With Emotional Intelligence” in 1999.

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How Senior Executives Find Time to Be Creative

Harvard Business

The number-one attribute CEOs look for in their incoming workforce (according to an IBM survey of more than 1,500 CEOs across 33 industries and 60 countries) is not discipline, integrity, intelligence, or emotional intelligence. It’s creativity. And for that, you need highly creative employees. .”

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Interview with Pat Kramer CEO of BDO Canada On Future Of Work

Cheryl Cran

The other part of my philosophy is that leadership requires a balance of collaboration and emotional intelligence and effective decision making. As leaders we need to collaborate and understand our people and what they are about which is where emotional intelligence is a valuable tool.

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How to Know If Someone Is Ready to Be a Manager

Harvard Business

It can be helpful to ask what other management experiences they have had outside of work: leading an athletic team, a school literary magazine, a squad of volunteers, a large number of younger siblings? who agrees that emotional intelligence is what he looked for in a new management hire. You and Your Team Series.

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Self-Awareness Can Help Leaders More Than an MBA Can

Harvard Business

In one study , researchers compared the organizational performance of 440 CEOs who had been celebrated on the covers of magazines like BusinessWeek, Fortune, and Forbes. The researchers split the CEOs into two groups — those with an MBA and those without one — and then monitored their performance for up to seven years.

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KPMG Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

DiversityInc Magazine Top 50 Companies for Diversity (2013). Being personable, emotionally intelligent, someone with whom they feel they could work, and confident are all very important to this firm. Consulting Mag’s “Top 25 in Consulting” for “Excellence in Leadership to Mike Nolan of KPMG (2014).