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A Commercial Pilot’s 2-Year Plan to Break into Consulting

Management Consulted

I was using that time to transition into a project management role in media. I got a part-time job in a retail store, and in my downtime I just started a learning a lot of the tools necessary in order to be a producer/project manager in media. When the recession hit, my employer lost all the funding for their flight department.

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Your Strategy Has to Be Flexible — But So Does Your Execution

Harvard Business

Metric obsession. Drucker’s exhortation, “What gets measured gets managed” is often invoked when approaching execution. It is also be a mistake to restrict ourselves to managing what we can easily measure. In the sense that results count, and their quantification is desirable, it seems irrefutable.

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How to Hand Off an Innovation Project from One Team to Another

Harvard Business

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

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What Inclusive Urban Development Can Look Like

Harvard Business

In order to achieve these goals, new, non-traditional metrics were needed to track the project’s community impacts while making sure that investors and capital partners were still accomplishing their financial objectives. The second is to develop spaces and programs to incubate entrepreneurs.

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4 Organizational Mistakes That Plague Modern Knowledge Workers

Harvard Business

And yet in my work with clients, I often discover old ideas about time management that don’t take this new reality into account. Frosted film or patterned glass walls instead of clear glass. Success metrics must be clear and agreed upon in advance, and managers may need training on effective leadership of remote workers.

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How Rudeness Stops People from Working Together

Harvard Business

Researchers filmed these simulations and had objective judges evaluate them. The teams exposed to rudeness displayed lower capabilities in all diagnostic and procedural performance metrics, markedly diminishing the infant’s chances of survival. Celia de Anca and Salvador Aragón. Kevin Kniffin.