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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

Management Consulted

Consulting compensates with perks that banking does not offer – from better travel allowances to more generous health and retirement packages. Consultants – depending on firm – travel anywhere from 25-75% of their time. Consultants – depending on firm – travel anywhere from 25-75% of their time.

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??? Happy New Year: Predictions, Takeaways, and Thank you!

Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

This highlights a disconnect because it is all about getting together with people they love and care for and events, games, concerts, etc…should be leading the way. Peak travel is down on commuter lines by about 40% or more in cities like DC, NYC, and Boston. Also, movies…people say they are 25% more likely to go to the movies.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

FTI expanded into investigation and research capabilities as well as turnaround, restructuring, bankruptcy and forensic accounting with the moves. Restructuring/Turnaround Services. It also means that interns are at times required to travel and interact with FTI’s clients. FTI CONSULTING ORGANIZATION. Private Equity.

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Leaders Who Get Change Right Know How to Listen

Harvard Business

What she learned informed her strategy for the turnaround, which she then communicated through a series of town halls, roundtables, and memos. In fact, she logged nearly 200,000 miles that first year as she traveled to each site to share the strategy and reignite enthusiasm about the future of Xerox. Hope rekindled. Energy returned.”

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How Agile Teams Can Help Turnarounds Succeed

Harvard Business

It is most definitely not for big, old-line companies that are facing an existential crisis and require a full-scale turnaround. None of these conditions exists in extreme events such as natural disasters, terrorist attacks, major military battles — or large-scale business turnarounds. It’s for techies.

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Leading Across Cultures Requires Flexibility and Curiosity

Harvard Business

The research involved conducting and coding 88 in-depth behavioral event interviews of leading change with 65 leaders, spread across multiple industries and from across five continents. We traveled together. We all went to Uganda [one of their key operations]. I did a job swap with my opposite number in the U.S.

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How to Overcome Executive Isolation

Harvard Business

Senior executives tend to be shielded from organizational problems and data; they are given limited and filtered information about their operations, employees, and customers. They felt uncomfortable socializing with her, and this isolated her from much of the day-to-day life of the organization. Second, get out of the bubble.

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