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Consultant Ninja: Signs of Crunch Time: Management Consulting Blog

Consultant Ninja

Countdown metric unit shrinking. ["96 I wonder if it has a governer?"] Reads just like a déjà-vu of my last crunch time on a project, minus the wife, plus irritated friends ("wtf, do you know that it is 1am?" - "but you said to call you when I get to the hotel, didnt you?"). Can you please send the most recent version over?"]

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KPMG Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

In addition to its private clients, Peat Marwick’s growth was also fueled by the government contracts it won. Richard Solomons – Chief Executive of InterContinental Hotels Group. Diversity Advisory Board Scorecard – Developed to set meaningful diversity metrics for the firm. James Marwick – Director at AT&T.

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You Don’t Have to Be a Software Company to Think Like One

Harvard Business

Companies face major risks if they fail to recognize this new platform-driven context and the different economic rules that govern it. Key performance metrics, such as “intent to return,” driven by expensive tickets and long lines, were worsening. What role could software play in that equation?

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Money as Communication: A Purposely "Non-Educational" Fallacious Video by the Atlanta Fed

MishTalk

But if people are going to communicate with one another about value, those communications are going to be most effective if done using some standardized metric—and that''s where money comes in. Please consider a few re-ordered sentences starting at the bottom of page 15 of Murray Rothbard''s classic text What Has Government Done to Our Money?

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