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Transitioning to Consulting: The Changing Value of Your Time

Tom Spencer

This will help you practice being a consultant and improve your time management skills before graduation. Time Commitments in Graduate School. Many things vie for the time and attention of a graduate student. Ricky Hollenbach is a Thermal Sciences Associate at Exponent Scientific and Engineering Consulting.

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Before Day 1: Taking Advantage of the In-Between

Tom Spencer

Use this time wisely, because once it is gone, it is gone forever. Ricky Hollenbach is a Thermal Sciences Associate at Exponent Scientific and Engineering Consulting. in Mechanical Engineering at Duke University. He solves problems in the thermal-fluids, heat transfer, and turbomachinery disciplines. He earned his Ph.D.

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Productivity and Creativity – awkward bedfellows or birds of a feather?

Ben de Haldevang

The Guardian recently published a long but interesting piece on the history of time management (from Taylor forward). For the longest time, these two ideas have sat on opposite sides of a very deep chasm. He was firmly of the view that things that took longer to make were more valuable than those that took less time.

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Stress and decreased engagement are just two reasons we need to stop scheduling back-to-back meetings

Brimstone Consulting

“What makes this study so powerful and relatable is that we’re effectively visualizing for people what they experience phenomenologically inside,” says Michael Bohan, senior director of Microsoft’s Human Factors Engineering group. It’s not an abstraction — quite the opposite.

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Is a COO-as-a-service solution right for me?

Asamby Consulting

Additionally, improving your processes and building out your business systems becomes more important and more time-consuming at the same time. At the same time, as the CEO, you probably don’t want to spend all your time managing that day-to-day and building your backend systems. If you don’t, delegate it to them.

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All you need to know about the interview (Part 1: Overview and Fit Interview)

Tom Spencer

Recall what I have mentioned many times, management consulting firms are assessing candidates for their Leadership, Achievement, and Problem Solving skills. OK, next time, let’s crack the secret of the Case interview. Mike Ni believes that technology is the engine of the future, while business capability is the wheel!

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Make Sure Your Employees Have Enough Interesting Work to Do

Harvard Business

Is it a problem of time management? Take for example the case of my recent client, an engineering consulting company I’ll call Astride. It was clear that the firm needed to make more investment in engineering design software. Do your specialists waste time on clerical work? The cause may be more systemic.