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Save the Date for ConsultCon 2019 in Dallas, Oct. 4-6

IMC USA

Fort Lauderdale, Florida — April 10, 2019 — The Institute of Management Consultants USA (IMC USA, www.imcusa.org ) announces that its 2019 annual Consult-Con international consultants conference takes place October 4-6, 2019, at the Dallas/Addison Marriott Quorum hotel, a short drive from Love Field (DAL) and DFW Airport.

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Value Is Not Diminished by Distance

Alan Weiss

The trip wouldn’t have been feasible in terms of my schedule or their finances. I’ve found that corporate clients find it far easier to meet virtually than haul themselves through airports, suffer the bad food and distractions of hotels and conference centers, and endure all the wasted time. But this worked wonderfully.

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Intentional design (and complicated systems)

Seth Godin Blog

Take this simple product found at a Hilton hotel, designed and sold by a division of Sysco, the giant food service company. It’s a little bigger than your thumb… Well, if the “what’s it for” is to use in the shower, and the “who’s it for” is the hotel guest, it fails in countless ways.

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Another Ghost Town in China, This Time a Replica of Manhattan

MishTalk

China’s project to build a replica Manhattan is taking shape against a backdrop of vacant office towers and unfinished hotels, underscoring the risks to a slowing economy from the nation’s unprecedented investment boom. Bloomberg reports China Builds Its Own Manhattan -- Except It''s a Ghost Town.

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Consultant Ninja: How Consultants Manage Frequent Flyer Miles.

Consultant Ninja

When you are in consulting, you rack up a lot of frequent flyer miles and hotel points, but you dont have a lot of time to manage them. It is still in private beta, but I like what I see and Im using it to manage all of my (and Mrs. Ninjas) frequent flyer, hotel, car, and AMEX accounts. Monday, September 27, 2010. Check it out.

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Tour Recap – Day 4 (Columbia)

Management Consulted

A quick subway ride later, and we were not only at the hotel – but Jenny Rae was asleep. Next stop – a meeting with the Executive Board of the Women’s Finance Society at Columbia University. The only nap on the tour, it was absolutely glorious! Never fear – a 2-hour nap was all that was in store, and we were on the move again.

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Getting an Intricate Operation Back in Sync

Harvard Business

Before I became general manager of The Beverly Hills Hotel, I held the same position at another luxury hotel up the coast. Later, he privately told me he was thinking of leaving the hotel. The director of finance grumbled that overtime costs were too high, due to high turnover and the fact that employee sick time had spiked.