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Recruiting versus reality

Tom Spencer

Consulting firms are very good at selling themselves to potential recruits. But, like any sales pitch, there’s a degree of exaggeration behind the polished smiles. In larger offices that have consistent streams of work in many industries, new consultants may be pigeon-holed to particular industries (e.g.

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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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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

In the New York office, the industries McKinsey caters to are financial services, health care services, advanced electronics, aerospace and defense, and TMT (technology, media and telecommunications). Bainies in NYC work to support their clients on nearly every industry and across all ranges. The Boston Consulting Group. EY Consulting.

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Getting an Intricate Operation Back in Sync

Harvard Business

Before I became general manager of The Beverly Hills Hotel, I held the same position at another luxury hotel up the coast. The sales and marketing director said he was receiving complaints about sloppy service. Later, he privately told me he was thinking of leaving the hotel. And something was wrong.

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How to Navigate a Digital Transformation

Harvard Business

Different industries and different business models have always maintained different percentages of these asset types. Digital native upstarts are gutting traditional industries one at a time, leveraging scalable technology and participative networks.

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Case Study: An Office Romance Gone Wrong

Harvard Business

Hotel bar @ 7? They were at a conference, with industry contacts all around, using their corporate expense accounts. She reported to the head of sales, who reported to the COO, and she and Brad rarely interacted at work. Claudia was the newest recruit to the sales team—young, eager, pretty. Brad: Just me.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

We recruited a panel of expert judges (see the list below), who evaluated the companies through the lens of their own expertise and gauged which transformations were most durable and had the highest impact in their industries. Has this transformation had impact on customers and its industry in the past decade?