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GMAT: A Strategic Guide to Effective Preparation

Tom Spencer

The GMAT is a necessary hurdle that individuals who aspire to pursue an MBA or a graduate degree in finance need to overcome in order to gain admission to a top school. Effective time management is crucial during the GMAT. The GMAT assesses a wide range of skills, from analytical writing to quantitative and verbal reasoning.

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Need an energy boost? Check your batteries

The Management Centre

Finance: does your income match your lifestyle, or is there more money going out each month than coming in? Attitude: how is your current attitude to the world, are you feeling glass half empty of glass half full? Career: are you satisfied with where you are in your career at this point in your life?

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Consulting as a Contractor: The Rise of Self-Employment

Tom Spencer

Contractors need to be highly disciplined, organised, and have excellent time management skills. They also need to manage their own training, resource development, and financing.

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Due Diligence by Management Consulting Firms

Tom Spencer

These are outsourced by PE firms or corporate acquirers to a specialist adviser: lawyers for legal issues, accountants for auditing, and investment bankers for carrying out due diligence from a financing perspective. Financial due diligence involves a lot of financial modelling ( DCF , LBO , NAV ) and deal structuring.

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5 Research-Based Strategies for Overcoming Procrastination

Harvard Business

Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. Add to your list all the ways procrastinating on retirement saving could affect your social life, finances, stress, happiness, health, and so on. You and Your Team Series. Staying Focused. Your Brain Can Only Take So Much Focus. Srini Pillay. William Treseder.

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Two Powerful Ways Managers Can Curb Implicit Biases

Harvard Business

For the most part, managers are not given the right tools to overcome the challenges posed by implicit biases. But this demands a lot of cognitive energy, so over time, managers go back to their old habits. The workshops companies invest in typically teach them to constantly check their thoughts for bias.

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Taming the Epic To-Do List

Harvard Business

Time is a finite resource, but people rarely budget their time with anywhere near the rigor they apply to their finances. It is important to take a strategic approach to determining how you spend your time if you want to be sure you will achieve your highest priorities.