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5 Travel Hacks as a Deloitte Consultant

Management Consulted

Consulting is known for its business travel – so much, in fact, that it’s hard to describe your work in the industry without mentioning the constant flights and hotel nights. The post 5 Travel Hacks as a Deloitte Consultant appeared first on Management Consulted.

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A Career In Management Consulting

Tom Spencer

Consultants can be placed under a lot of pressure, required to work extremely long hours, spend endless nights in lonely hotel rooms, and face the continual threat of redundancy either due to an economic downturn or the firm’s ‘up or out’ policy.

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5 Reasons Why Consulting Jobs are Not As Glamorous As Advertised

Tom Spencer

You get the opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment surrounding yourself with smart people and learning about business problems in a variety of industries. Sure, you may be flying business class and staying at some of the finest hotels. It is not difficult to see why the job is so attractive to young overachievers.

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Achieving Startup Success via Product-Market Fit

Tom Spencer

That is, understanding key players in the industry who provide similar offerings to the same group of customers. Thus, Southwest must keep an eye on both the airline industry as well as automobile transportation. For example, the hotel industry was disrupted by Airbnb , which achieved product-market fit soon after launch.

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How to Balance Work and Life in Management Consulting

CaseInterview.com

Yes, I think it is, but you can't always manage it when you want to manage it. The second factor is the industry you choose to work in or end up working in. Sure, it was a very nice hotel, and it's really, really cool for the first four weeks. Is it possible to balance work and life as a consultant? Here is the reality.

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Case Study: Should a Hotel Giant Eliminate Some Brands and Refocus?

Harvard Business

As the longtime CEO of Otto Hotels & Resorts, now the second-largest lodging company in the world, he’d packed for hundreds of work trips before, but suits were his go-to. Otto had just finished a $9 billion acquisition of Beekman Hotels, which meant it now had nearly 4,800 hotels and just over a million rooms in 100 countries.

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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

This group of Industrial-Organizational (I-O) Psychology practitioners took turns sharing how they found their way toward our aligned passions of how people think and behave in the workplace. I started working at the age of 16 in 1992 as an industrial cleaner on nights and weekends with my friend Mark.

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