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Consultant Ninja: Signs of Crunch Time: Management Consulting Blog

Consultant Ninja

I wonder if it has a governer?"] I am a strategy consultant at. Countdown metric unit shrinking. ["96 96 hours until were done."] Cursing off the chart. ["f**k." damn, why doesnt that add up?"] Car rental abuse appearing. Hmmmm, it redlines at 7000 RPMs. All positive precursor signs of hyper-productivity. Posted by Consultant Ninja.

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Consulting as a Contractor: The Rise of Self-Employment

Tom Spencer

He discovered that working independently allowed him to identify gaps within the strategy consulting industry that he easily would have missed if he had been working as a employee. Contractors need to be highly disciplined, organised, and have excellent time management skills.

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How to Eliminate the Whirlwind & Increase Productivity

Rick Conlow

As summary, think of this quote by Golda Meir, “I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.”. By considering the above and taking the appropriate action steps, you are helping your team members increase their performance, which inevitably will translate into more success for them and you!

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Make Sure Your Employees Have Enough Interesting Work to Do

Harvard Business

Is it a problem of time management? Its focus is rather on large corporate and government work. But to get to this point it had to decide, one step change at a time, to let go of small clients while at the same time building the required corporate muscle for larger clients. The cause may be more systemic.

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If You Can’t Say What Your Meeting Will Accomplish, You Shouldn’t Have It

Harvard Business

Here are some example objectives from different types of meetings we’ve run recently: Board meeting: Provide Board input as Management formulates the new five-year strategy. Agree on how much runway remains on the current core strategy. Identify new strategies to potentially pursue. Align around next steps.

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Leadership Lessons from the Cat - Henman Performance

Henman Performance Executive

Cats excel at time management. Corporate Governance. Crisis Management. Talent Management. Taking nothing away from our canine advisors, I’d like to add a word on behalf of the cat. When it comes to business, we could do worse than to learn some lessons from our feline friends: 1. They don’t come when you call.