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Want To Be On The Leading Edge? Forget About It.

Markovitz Consulting

In my consulting work, I’ve seen business unit managers unable to achieve the market share goals mandated by the CEO because they couldn’t get the IT support for new product development software; Finance and HR support to hire the necessary material scientists; and Operations support to rapidly qualify new suppliers.

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Want to Conduct Organizational Assessments? Here's How to Get Started

Consulting Matters

You can look at the role of a consultant as someone who simply provides solutions to enhance leadership and business results. You want to make sure from a senior leadership standpoint, everybody's included. Sometimes legal and finance, they can be in a group together. Then when you're looking at focus groups.

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Top 11 Must-Read Project Management Books

Epicflow

In addition to the “technical side” of project management, the author shares his ideas regarding effective stakeholder management, trust-based leadership, and effective decision-making as well as gives a variety of tools and techniques that can add value to your daily project management activities.

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The 4 Types of Organizational Politics

Harvard Business

It might also include political capital that arises from membership of or strong ties to a high status group such as the finance committee, a special task force, or the senior management team. I call this the “the rocks” because rocks can symbolize a stabilizing foundation that keeps an organization steady in times of crisis.

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The Consulting Bible – Dominate Your McKinsey, Bain and BCG Fit and Consulting Case Interviews

Management Consulted

Here are 5 preview pages – sample Table of Contents page, How to get the most out of this guide page, a sample fit interview page, a sample case interview guidelines page, and a sample case study page: Wow, it looks pretty good. The one component that people always miss when discussing their leadership (pg.

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Lots of Employees Get Misclassified as Contractors. Here’s Why It Matters

Harvard Business

All of these issues rushed back to mind recently when the political leadership at the current U.S. Lacking capital, truckers purchased new vehicles through financing provided by these very same trucking companies. Payments for the vehicles were then deducted from pay, leaving little in compensation for the workers.

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6 Things Every Mentor Should Do

Harvard Business

This is perhaps even more the case in the world of management outside of academic medicine — whether it is finance, consulting, or technology — as the path from professional to senior executive requires more than individual success.