Tom Spencer

MAY 19, 2023

Many people need to commute during the late afternoon: travelling home from the office, picking up kids from school, and attending meetings or dinners. If you are a travelling consultant, going to the hotel gym late at night might also be the only time you get a chance to work out if you are busy during the week.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 22, 2015

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. Altman Vilandrie is a smaller firm, and so I was also able to meet a lot of the people that work there and got a great vibe from the directors and the other analysts.

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IMC USA

MARCH 15, 2017

The conference dates are October 20-22 in Atlanta, Georgia, at the JW Marriott Atlanta Buckhead Hotel. IMC USA’s Conference team has been working hard to plan the best programs and networking so that you can learn new approaches and methodologies, meet other consultants, and grow your practice. Learn more at our conference web pages.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

APRIL 21, 2013

How NOT to Start a Meeting. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Sunday, April 21, 2013. Many thanks to alert consultant Maria for contributing the following blog post. Consultantese. (8). Consultants who are easily offended. (12). consulting. (9). Demotivation. (5). Firm Craziness. (11). Good Times on the Plane. (11). In the News. (5).

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 1, 2019

I would love to go, to learn and to meet people. A conference that required international travel asked me to speak as a track talk about 45 days in advance. They paid coach airfare and my hotel room for the entire conference because it was a track talk. No hotel reimbursement before or after the two days of the conference.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2016

As we move from one hotel chain to another and order the same Starbucks drink in London that we do in Shanghai or Tokyo, it can feel like just another business trip as opposed to a personally meaningful cross-cultural adventure. First, traveling abroad can build your confidence. Too often, these whirlwind treks leave us numb.

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Consulting Success

JUNE 26, 2017

I was meeting one of my first business mentors. A man named Kyoji, who had grown up on this island but had spent 40+ years travelling around the world building several international brands and businesses. After checking into my hotel in the city center, I took the elevator down 13 floors to the street. The flight was short.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2017

But if the new parent’s return involves business travel, and that parent has chosen to nurse, it’s even more complicated. While it’s common for new parents to feel stressed about juggling life at work and home, for a pumping, traveling parent the stress can be heightened. Become a Travel-Logistics Master.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

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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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

As if the stresses and headaches of business travel weren’t enough, there’s one more thing to worry about while traveling in unfamiliar places: the security of your email. Say, for instance, an executive opens a spymail while meeting with a supplier in a politically, economically, or socially unstable country.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 1, 2022

Figure 1 : Innovations from NASA will help the US meet its sustainable aviation goals. If the aviation industry continues down the path of high CO 2 emissions, what will happen when new aerospace markets open: sub-orbital travel, supersonic flight, and space hotels? Companies which require regular travel for business (e.g.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 6, 2019

You’ll look back at your first meetings, notes, emails, and slides, and be horrified at how bad they are compared to now – and this is just after 6 months on the job. Bad #2: Travel. Roughly 80% of cases are travel cases. Expect to be top-tier. You’ll soon have mastered the art of arriving at the boarding gate at final call.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

JULY 22, 2013

Put plainly, "3-4-5" means that, for each week youre working: Youll spend 3 nights at hotels. Fill out expense reports and attend "team meetings" all day Friday. Plus, "we have a staff meeting first thing Monday, and where were you Thursday at 4:30 when we needed you?" What does "3/4/5" mean to a consultant? Newer Post.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

On our January 2014 Consulting Bootcamp tour, we travelled to several universities up and down the East Coast – Duke, Georgia Tech, UGA, Penn, Harvard, McGill, Dartmouth, Columbia, and Cornell. *. The next day we stopped by Dartmouth for several meetings. In the beginning of the trip, Jenny Rae was intern-less. No pictures!

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

MARCH 24, 2014

I stay at big chain hotels too often. But I’ve had a couple of co-workers choose a different route when they travel, and I’m curious what you all think of it. Here’s what they said: Women like bed and breakfast accommodation because it removes them from the predatory world of business hotels. I get this. What a benefit!

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Gina Abudi

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The First Team Meeting Read Part I for background information. After the agenda went out for the team meeting, we asked team members to begin to make travel arrangements to ensure arrival prior to the dinner (during the cocktail hour.) We realized some members would be flying in rather early so we ensured the hotel [.].

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Or, invite us to come present a 2-hour Bootcamp Lite (60 attendees minimum, lecture) or 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp (8-30 participants/day, interactive w/breakouts) – we would be honored to meet with you. We travel anywhere in the world. *. Just email us for more information, and we’ll get you on the calendar. We drove 1.5

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Or, invite us to come present a 2-hour Bootcamp Lite (60 attendees minimum, lecture) or 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp (8-30 participants/day, interactive w/breakouts) – we would be honored to meet with you. We travel anywhere in the world. *. Just email us for more information, and we’ll get you on the calendar. We drove 1.5

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Or, invite us to come present a 2-hour Bootcamp Lite (60 attendees minimum, lecture) or 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp (8-30 participants/day, interactive w/breakouts) – we would be honored to meet with you. We travel anywhere in the world. *. Just email us for more information, and we’ll get you on the calendar. We drove 1.5

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Melissa Agnes

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

As all of my travels around the world, the experience was enlightening and inspiring. It’s always a pleasure to meet smart, proactive people who are pushing envelopes and using technology to make their world a better and more open and connected place. I loved the title of the Hotel Al Qasr’s concierge reception.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

APRIL 29, 2013

Please enter your meeting ID and then press the pound sign. Look up meeting ID. Try to memorize stupidly-long meeting ID. Invalid meeting ID. Please re-enter your meeting ID and then press the pound sign. Re-check and re-momorize meeting ID. Please enter your meeting ID and then press the pound sign.

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Martinka Consulting

MARCH 12, 2020

I do know the virus has a longer than normal life of being alive, spreads super-fast through our easily traveled and networked world, and that’s what’s concerning people So, let’s cover what it’s doing to people like you and me, i.e. business owners and executives. My Rotary club, like many others, has canceled at least three meetings.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Every now and then, firms make mistakes that leave their customers unsatisfied: a restaurant misplaces an order, a hotel’s air conditioning breaks down, or a dry cleaner damages a garment. On TripAdvisor, management responses are common: Roughly one-third of reviews receive a response, and nearly half of all hotels respond to reviews.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 14, 2018

UBER and Air-BNB are the companies who have perfected this model and have radically democratized the taxi and hotel industries, tapping into un-utilized excess capacities and ultimately making the economic system more efficient. The platform facilities virtual meetings and any financial transactions between the parties.

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Women in Consulting

DECEMBER 25, 2017

At regular meetings, you notice one of your best project managers sitting in the corner with their arms crossed, refusing to take part in the conversation in any way. He had to train other workers, write reports, and attend meetings when wasn’t on the production line. Mr. Uchino passed away at 4 am at work due to karoshi.

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NeoAcademic

MARCH 11, 2020

I think it’s around one to two dozen people, but that’s a rough guess from sitting in the room during the EB meeting at SIOP last year. have banned non-essential travel by their employees, which will prevent people from attending even if they still wanted to. Many universities and businesses (including mine!)

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 20, 2023

You can use the following questions in a one-to-one meeting or as an anonymous pulse survey with a team. Getting to where you are going I learned an important life lesson on a business trip to Puerto Rico, traveling with a good friend. A great way to gain perspective into psychological safety is by getting curious.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Becoming location-independent and traveling the world is more possible than ever. What Everyone Should Know about Running Virtual Meetings. Try a travel pilot. Jenny Blake , author of Pivot , recommends piloting both your overall enjoyment of travel and the particular location you’re thinking about. . Paul Axtell.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

MARCH 4, 2013

We strode into the glass and steel Edifice of Importance and met up with a half dozen spotty grotty brits to begin our meeting. I still dont know what happened in that meeting. I was already. We reached the financial district and headed straight to our all-day. Our bags were whisked to The Thistle ahead of us. The luxury! I even kept.

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

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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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

MARCH 11, 2013

I once admitted to the clients main point of contact that, until that meeting, I had never even heard of the product I was developing requirements for! It can even become a sport! Once youre gray enough, you can plead ignorance to almost anything and still get the gig! Never mind that I knew it pretty well; I just wanted to see what hed do!

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

MARCH 18, 2013

They marched in, sat through meetings, and handed over THE EXACT SAME REPORT I had prepared. After puking out ten easy steps, I turned in my homework and expected to move on to the next. But a funny thing happened instead: A bunch of junior consultants magically appeared (temps!) and they "delivered" in my place! Easy money! Consultantese. (8).

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 3, 2021

At the time of writing this article, many firms are not meeting candidates face-to-face due to COVID-19. Latency happens when you have a good internet connection (no signal loss) but a very long distance to travel (say halfway around the world). So, for client meetings, they’re using these video platforms as well.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Im in a meeting with my client. you actually like traveling, dont you?". Once you are a consultant you have to love travelling. Consulting Moment of Zen. She says, "I need you to fly down to {insert name of random small city} tomorrow to get a handle on whats going on with the conversion.". My client says, ".you Post a Comment.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

APRIL 24, 2013

I admit, I was cutting it fine on the LGA/CHS flight, but seriously, 90 minutes should be enough padding to get me to the meeting on time. However, your behavior last week was nearly a breaking point in our relationship. You blew it, boys, and with no explanation. How about a little announcement when we sit on the runway FOR AN HOUR?

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Killer Consultant

MAY 1, 2015

I can even remember the first day at that consulting firm, the first night in a hotel room, the first flight on corporate money. Today, when I have to work long hours or when I am travelling, the cost is much higher. It’s 80% of the salary as well, of course, but luckily we are able to still make ends meet.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 18, 2016

On a recent business trip to London, I surprised the conference organizers by turning down the opportunity to stay at the posh hotel hosting the conference in favor of a rather modest Airbnb flat. The hotel was clearly much more luxurious. That makes Airbnb more valuable than most of the leading hotel chains in the world.

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