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Why CEO’s Hire Consultants and Coaches: The REAL Value They Bring with Brad Rex

Consulting Matters

Brad had an unconventional start to his career after meeting his boss's boss while studying finance at college. During his twelve-and-a-half-year tenure, he worked in finance and strategic planning before taking over as leader of Epcot theme park on the week of 911, 2001.

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Accountability: Context and Boundaries of Cross Functional Work

Effective Managers

As most other processes within the organization, it all depends on how your organization works and whether you know how to implement it efficiently. For example, let us say that a person in the finance department has a quarterly report that is dependent on the operations department to gather information.

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. How can you boost your financial acumen? How do you decide which concepts are most important to understand to your work and your understanding of the business? Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers. What the Experts Say. Overcome your fears.

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Cybersecurity 101: How to defend against cyber-attacks

Tom Spencer

When developers discover a bug in a software program or operating system, cybercriminals have a window of opportunity to exploit the vulnerability before it is fixed. All organisations should run on secure operating systems, at least Windows 10. Zero-day exploits. Educate staff. Image: Pexels. References.

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Making Decisions: High-performing Teams Know How to Get Business Done

Makarios Consulting

For example, Marketing can decide on a new social media campaign or Finance can purchase new accounting software without making it a matter of team discussion. In doing so, they streamline daily operations, maximize everyone’s time, and position the business for success. This empowers team members to act autonomously with confidence.

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6 Ways You Can Prepare for Consulting Right Now

Management Consulted

So without further ado, we offer some tips on how to prepare for consulting right now. Here are 6 ways to prepare for consulting as you wait for the next chance to drop that resume: 1) Go work for a brand name company, but do something that is sales, operations, or strategy related. 3) Network into a boutique consulting firm.

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Breaking Down Case Interview Frameworks – M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions)

Management Consulted

These cases can be some of the scariest, because they test things like finance principles, but on the other hand, they’re really easy to recognize. They often plan to operate it for a period of time; many choose to integrate the target with their current operations. Once again, it all comes down to finances.