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How to Find the Grit Passion for Winning at Business and Life: Interview with Dave Saliaris

Consulting Matters

Like I was a commissioner for a youth Lacrosse program from seven years and brought 450 families into the community of the sport that we were dealing with, and grew it from 2 teams to 24 teams. Throw it to the sales group and say go sell this thing because it's such a cool product. I'm a coach in and out of the business.

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How to Find the Grit Passion for Winning at Business and Life: Interview with Dave Saliaris

Consulting Matters

Like I was a commissioner for a youth Lacrosse program from seven years and brought 450 families into the community of the sport that we were dealing with, and grew it from 2 teams to 24 teams. Throw it to the sales group and say go sell this thing because it's such a cool product. I'm a coach in and out of the business.

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Does Your Company Know What to Do with All Its Data?

Harvard Business

Each presents distinct opportunities for profit and competitive advantage, from product improvements to new revenue streams to possible industry game changers. New car sales reflect the health of automobile manufacturers and are of great interest to investors. Infomediate. Connect data providers and those who need the data.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Compared to its peers, FTI Consulting is a youngster in the consulting industry. Luczak pioneered solutions at the intersection of law, communications and technology that affected not only the cases he was involved in, but the industry itself. Dispute, litigation and investigations services for construction industry.

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10 Years of Data on Baseball Teams Shows When Pay Transparency Backfires

Harvard Business

To analyze this, we used data from an industry where individuals’ pay and performance are quite transparent across firms and also, at least for some, are quite unequal: Major League Baseball. While sports are different from other industries in many respects, baseball makes a good test case for this kind of study for several reasons.

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The lowdown on Retail Week Live 14th-18th March 2016

freshminds

If anyone is anyone in retail, the annual coming together of industry bosses at Retail Week Live is a big date in your calendar. Well known as the 'Oscars' of retail, these awards congratulate the excellence of leading retail companies and their talented staff.

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How to Teach Employees Skills They Don’t Know They Lack

Harvard Business

But according to data from industries including academia, health care, technology, manufacturing, retail, sports, and business services, people are actually “unconsciously incompetent” in a typical 20% to 40% of areas critical to their performance. A great example comes from the aviation industry.

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