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Leadership Tip #11: Substitute the Word Trust for Empower

Johanna Rothman

Why do managers persist in demanding teams use a “standard” board, or use “standard” metrics, such as velocity? Several years ago, I worked with a client who said, “If you want to get reimbursed for your travel, you must only take taxis.” This is a part of the series of intermittent leadership tips.

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The Top 8 Undergrad Consulting Majors

Management Consulted

You’ll need a sexy minor, some unique leadership experience or a great summer internship to stand out. A fun fact – Jenny Rae was an economics major at UVA, but famously decided to shave her head and travel the world after graduation (yeah, her parents were really proud). The knock on engineering? P&G, Coca Cola etc.).

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A Commercial Pilot’s 2-Year Plan to Break into Consulting

Management Consulted

Were you involved in leadership at all when you were there? Not at the school, just at the church level, just doing different leadership level stuff for our college ministry. And so stuff that’s related to church, or an institution of faith, you have to position in terms of mentorship, or community leadership. Awesome, okay.

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Job Hub: Uber Jobs and Culture

Management Consulted

Today we highlight tremendous business analyst and post-consulting leadership jobs at Uber. Don’t expect Uber to pick up your travel tab; we’ve heard from many interviewees that they had to pay their own way to the interview.

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Change Management Is Becoming Increasingly Data-Driven. Companies Aren’t Ready

Harvard Business

We are working with a large travel and tourism firm to introduce a system for real-time employee feedback. We imagine each organization having a bespoke dashboard, developed in partnership with the firm’s leadership team, reflecting their priorities, competitive position, and future plans. Build a Dashboard.

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Why GE, Boeing, Lowe’s, and Walmart Are Directly Buying Health Care for Employees

Harvard Business

HDP is a third-party administrator with expertise in the development and management of travel surgery programs, providing strategic and operational management of this program. ECEN began first with total joint replacement, then added spinal surgery, and recently has begun providing bariatric (weight loss) surgery at selected centers.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.