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An Ex-Consultant’s Jump into the Start Up World

Management Consulted

He co-founded MobileSuites, an app that puts travel concierge services and hotel information at your fingertips, and which you can (and should) find and sign-up for here. What else did you consider in the recruitment process, and why ultimately did you pick Altman Vilandrie? I wasn’t really sure. Absolutely.

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3 Steps to Cultivate an Innovation Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

Space travel alone is challenging, but reusing a rocket by landing it on a drone ship takes the complexity to another level. A financial services company engaged in investment banking and capital markets estimated the customer benefit of the Space X Falcon 9 reusable rocket. million per launch. This culture highlights coming in first.

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Job Hub: Airbnb Jobs and Culture

Management Consulted

Funny enough, the idea for Airbnb came about because the founders had trouble making rent, and in a desperate attempt to solve the problem they decided to throw up a website and market the extra space in their kitchen and living room to conference attendees visiting San Francisco who could find no room elsewhere.

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The Myth of a Psychologically Safe Workplace

Organizational Talent Consulting

Getting to where you are going I learned an important life lesson on a business trip to Puerto Rico, traveling with a good friend. And after picking up our rental car at the airport, we realized we didn’t have the address to our hotel. I could count on him for directions. The GPS could tell us where we were in the world.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

Compensation and benefits are on par to the market, but not adjusted for NYC living (so for take-home pay you might be better off in Atlanta or Dallas as a young McKinseyite, unless the magnetic draw to the Big Apple is just too much). EY Consulting. The office at NYC has grown quite a bit the past ~7 years.

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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. Service increasingly was hit or miss, and Forbes Travel Guide issued a preliminary rating that would have docked the restaurant a star. Later, he privately told me he was thinking of leaving the hotel.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms in Washington, DC

Management Consulted

The Washington, DC office’s recruitment team hires highly intelligent people who start as great communicators but are trainable. The space makes use of a set-up known as “hoteling,” in which staffers aren’t assigned a designated work space. They reserve one only on days when they plan to come to the office. Cool, or not?