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Chris Hoff’s Guide for Consultants and Coaches Navigating Radical Change

Consulting Matters

Chris sheds light on our collective discomfort with uncertainty and how coaching and consulting can train us to build resilience during such tricky times. First coined by Arnold Van Gennep, it is a fascinating term that captures the transitional phase between what was and what is yet to be.

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Who Killed the GE Model?

Harvard Business

These strategies eroded GE’s competitive advantage in everything from consumer electronics and home appliances to trains and aircraft engines. The diffusion of manufacturing technology through global trade, investment, and education has hurt the company, too. Silicon Valley and the rise of information technology.

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business

Toyota hired Deming to train hundreds of the company’s managers, eventually capitalizing on his expertise to develop the famous Toyota Production System — the primary source of today’s “lean” thinking. .” Shewhart taught this iterative and incremental-development methodology to his mentee, W.

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Hiring Data Scientists from Outside the U.S.: A Primer on Visas

Harvard Business

Here’s what we found: F-1 Visa “Optional Practical Training” Who’s eligible? This year of employment is known as “Optional Practical Training” or “OPT.” Most F-1 students apply for their optional practical training employment cards on their own and without the assistance of an attorney.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business

That makes it imperative to start thinking about how management will be changed by the most impactful information technology of our time: cloud computing. ” He added, “the biggest issue now is that important new technologies are moving ahead, and people aren’t thinking enough about the big implications.”

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The H-1B Visa Debate, Explained

Harvard Business

The H-1B Visa Process The H-1B visa was established, as part of the Immigration Act of 1990, to let companies recruit trained foreign workers (with at least a bachelor’s degree or the equivalent) to work in “specialty occupations” for which there are few qualified local candidates.