Seth Godin Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2019

And yet, it’s not unusual for a 90-mile ride on the Acela to be only three or four minutes shorter than it would be on a more traditional train. I can drive my Prius from NY to Syracuse faster than I can fly there.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 28, 2015

Tom: What kind of training and mentoring can graduates expect to receive at Cartesian? Adam Fraser: There is a two-week [on-boarding] training process, followed by Brown Bag sessions (internal training) and external training. Beyond this, you receive a great deal of on-the-job training.

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MishTalk

APRIL 15, 2017

Due to their ability to cut travel costs by 60%, shared autonomous electric vehicles (SAEVs) could shift about 25% of miles traveled from private automobiles-—creating enormous benefits for consumers as well as causing major disruption to the automotive industry. Many people drive their car five days a week to a train station.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 14, 2018

Currently engineers, physicians, other healthcare providers, and educators are working to create innovative ways to apply these immersive technologies in order to transform clinical teaching and practice. Medical Student and Resident Training. He’s most passionate about healthcare redesign, patient engagement, and the life sciences.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Hi readers: I hate to pause the blog train, but for the next few days I will be traveling and enjoying the last moments of 2008. Here’s what’s coming up: -A series of posts on “breaking into consulting” from non-business/economics backgrounds (eg, engineering, liberal arts, etc).

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

You are trained on how to get into a CEO’s mindset within a lifetime of an engagement while being an outsider. Marketing to safari clientele for funding, partnering with local safari companies for logistical support and networking to learn everything from charity fundraising to electrical engineering.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 22, 2015

He co-founded MobileSuites, an app that puts travel concierge services and hotel information at your fingertips, and which you can (and should) find and sign-up for here. I ended up traveling on a few projects with my friend Basel, an analyst who started the same day that I did. I would say it happened a bit by accident. Absolutely.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 2, 2015

Tom: What kind of training and mentoring can graduates expect to receive at A.T. We have a series of formal and informal training sessions which consultants must join as part of their development – certainly the formal training. Kearney’s travel model? Kearney: 40-50 hour weeks, depending on project-needs.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 21, 2019

While these figures might not look as impressive as, say, an engineering firm, some unstaffed time can bring the figures back into balance. Many consulting firms also invest significant dollars in their knowledge management and training programs. Additional Resources.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

With over 175 million active users worldwide, Pinterest thrives on providing users with relevant ideas: what to wear, what to cook, how to furnish your home, and where to travel. For example, while women typically make up roughly 16 % of software engineers in the U.S.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 11, 2015

A year after graduation, my rugby career started to show promise and I quit my analyst job to focus on training and competing. This provided me with a steady income, a flexible schedule to travel and train and also helped me tap into my “inner entrepreneur” (I have started three businesses since this experience).

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Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2017

Have you ever had a card declined when you tried to use it while traveling?) One important technique in AI is reinforcement learning whereby a computer is trained to take actions that maximize a certain reward function. For instance, DeepMind’s AlphaGo was trained this way to maximize its chances of winning the game of Go.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

Booz, Business Engineering Service; Edwin G. Most recently, Booz & Company acquired Management Engineers , based in Dusseldorf, Germany. They travel quite a bit, but their hours are slightly less than BCG or McKinsey and on par with Bain. Booz Surveys; Booz, Fry, Allen & Hamilton; and more. What about lifestyle?

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Management Consulted

MAY 7, 2017

If you’re an engineer, designer, software architect, into strategic design, or just in general thrilled with the combination of IT consulting and Management consulting, BCG is after you! There are many inbuilt programs and training modules for employees at various levels in their career to upgrade both hard and soft skills.

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Rod Burkert

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The RV is parked for the winter as another travel season (our 10 th ) has come to a close. Also, the price we charge is the engine for our practices’ growth. Greetings from Big Bend, Texas. In case you missed last week: Why you should charge a price that scares you – and then add 20%. Related posts.

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Consultant Ninja

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Our intent is to: Protect and hold together senior talent, so that the core revenue engine of the firm is sustained through the downturn. We will significantly reduce or eliminate expenditures on meetings and internal travel, including –break--. enhancing our leave of absence programs).

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MishTalk

AUGUST 17, 2014

And Chinese nationals are leaving in vast waves: Last year, more than 100 million outbound travelers crossed the frontiers. Still, the sheer volume of China''s outbound travel these days, and its massive economic impact, gives it new leverage. Today, China''s borders are wide open. Almost anybody who wants a passport can get one.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2017

A few years later they were caught napping when online upstarts disrupted industries such as music, travel, news, and video, while transforming scores of others. Technology that’s been trained on photos from past claims can accurately estimate the extent of the damage and automate the whole process. the parent company of Google.)

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1 to 1

JULY 29, 2022

And inquiries about loyalty rewards were common across nearly all industries — retail, public sector, automotive and manufacturing, travel and tourism, insurance, finance. These insights can help companies better train their customer support teams and ensure they’re equipped with the right information to meet customer needs.

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Harvard Business

JULY 9, 2018

3nethra is portable, telemedicine-enabled, and screening can be done in 5 minutes by a minimally trained technician without dilating the eye. These devices are benchtop fixed, not portable, can work only when eyes are dilated, and require trained technicians. In the United States, the same tests require three expensive instruments.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The CTFs were hosted on our open-sourced platform, and the challenges were designed by a cross-functional team of security engineers each with a specialized skill set (mobile application security, Windows security, and so on) to ensure a well-rounded CTF experience. It’s also about the physical security and safety of our employees.

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Confessions of a Consultant

JANUARY 27, 2019

Re-engineering gains can normally be achieved over a 12-week period. Workout Programme: Process re-engineering lends itself to involving people at lower levels in the organization. Some of the German discount supermarkets are now travelling this route. Secondly, the process is quick. Growth: Size matters!

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Interesting, the office in New York is very transient and has a hoteling system (so you don’t have an assigned desk) – so if you sign up for Deloitte NYC, be prepared to travel all the time. The NYC office offers a great place to start a career; there is a great training system and great working environment.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

Compared to professions like engineering or business disciplines like Finance or Operations, the concept of a dedicated salesperson is relatively recent. ” As Walter Friedman documents in Birth of a Salesman , sales wasn’t seen as a function that required specialized training or education until well into the 20 th century.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 3, 2022

For example, if you are an engineer or a scientist, you might be limited to a specific location that performs the work you are trained to conduct. In engineering, there are specialties such as biomechanics, thermal fluids, or material science. This process is unique to consulting, compared to some other industries.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Ram had led the technical analysis and design teams for their residential and commercial real estate projects, and Hari had overseen the small team of civil engineers in the field. “He abandoned you for more money and travel, without thinking twice about Green Horizon’s mission or your friendship. You can’t trust him.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The fruit of their travel was first the gestation and then, around 1844, the foundation of a technical school named after them. They advocated a mix of in-company “learning by doing” training and formal training, and offered new mechanical qualifications. Moreover, a cluster can never be static.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Much like our team of engineers who are constantly testing for the best functionality of our products, our team for emerging markets set up a series of experiments to explore which distribution model functioned best in these remote environments. A chaiwala in Orissa, India, brews tea on a BioLite HomeStove. Photograph courtesy of BioLite.

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Management Consulted

JULY 2, 2017

You are able to (or have to – depending on how you look at it) work with industry engineers and consultants. Based on the (largely analytical) services they cater to in Boston, the firm has a never-ending supply of interesting work, wonderful benefits, and strong training programs.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2018

A study by scientists at Advanced Brain Monitoring also found that being in flow cut the time it took to train novice marksmen up to an expert level in half. Traveling, often long-distance, to meet people face-to-face, when a phone call would suffice. Start: Do whatever it takes to start your engine.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Another pervasive reason is that senior executives are trained as operators, not innovators. Google’s “20% time” acts as a human-powered search engine for new problems. If you pursue problems that you know about already, you are unlikely to travel far from your current operational model.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Executives are wrestling with managing a proliferation of devices, protecting data, securing networks, and training employees to take security seriously. Sessions on protecting corporate data and thwarting social engineering efforts could be useful. Employees traveling abroad can also become easy targets without security know-how.

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MishTalk

MARCH 14, 2015

At the peak of streetcar travel in the mid-1920s, some 800 streetcars covering 200 miles of track carried 97 million passenger trips a year. To some, a streetcar conjures not a revivifying force, but the folly of the People Mover, an elevated train built in 1987 that loops 2.9 miles around downtown.

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Management Consulted

MAY 25, 2014

Unlike other firms, there is not that much traveling necessary – because Gallup conducts so much primary analysis, they are relying less on internal data for client firms. Software Engineer. Be warned that their training is not as formal as most top firms. IVR Administrator. Systems Administrator. Data Manager.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 181

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. When Dietrich Mateschitz traveled to Thailand in the 1980s, he observed the popularity of a cheap energizing drink called Krating Daeng among truck drivers and construction workers. In the U.S., Immigrants represent 27.5%

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

What kind of training or supervision or mentorship would the women receive? Frankly, I can even play one scenario out where this becomes an engine of its own and I don’t need to be here – if people know, and people are posting these things and it’s another type of job that people are looking for. But yeah, absolutely.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 23, 2015

We train people in how to think and it’s never quite as simple as saying we’re doing a performance improvement project, not training. I was in touch with a government contact yesterday offering them some training in strategic problem solving. Much of our work in this area in the last few years has been training and mentoring.

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