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Technical Women Are Software Managers

Johanna Rothman

One of my reviewers for the Modern Management Made Easy books asked a fascinating question: I've never seen this many women in management or in senior leadership positions. Women Quickly Dropped out of Studying Computer Science. I started to travel internationally as a consultant in the late 1990s. And, the managers?

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Navigating a Downturn: Strategies for Business Resilience

Tom Spencer

Adopt Conservative Financial Management Maintaining the financial health of a business is paramount if one hopes to thrive during periods of economic challenge. He studied Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. Zuhair Imaduddin is an Innovation Development Analyst at JPMorgan Chase.

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Before Day 1: Taking Advantage of the In-Between

Tom Spencer

Since everyone has a unique financial situation, amount of free time, and ability to travel, some of these suggestions will be more applicable to you than others. If you are returning to school, take a wildly different class than your course of study. Speaking of travelling, this is obviously an attractive, but expensive, option.

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Just How Bad Is Business Travel for Your Health? Here’s the Data.

Harvard Business

I went with the pizza, but my lack of choices was annoying — so much so that, when I got home, I started looking into the data on health and travel for work. According to the Global Business Travel Association and American Express , Americans took more than 500 million domestic business trips in 2016.

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The Future of Management (Part 2/3)

Tom Spencer

In the last installment , we explored how management has gone through big evolutionary changes since its inception. Having studied psychology alongside business, I tend to think about problems through two lenses. What this means is that there is no exact guideline for Teal management, it will look different in every organisation.

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The Future of Management (Part 2/3)

Tom Spencer

In the last installment , we explored how management has gone through big evolutionary changes since its inception. Having studied psychology alongside business, I tend to think about problems through two lenses. What this means is that there is no exact guideline for Teal management, it will look different in every organisation.

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Consultant Profiles Series: Billy Gerhard

Tom Spencer

Billy Gerhard is a consultant in the Philadelphia office of the Boston Consulting Group, a Big 3 management consulting firm. That was really the value in my mind, changing away from just solving niche problems in my field of study. He aspires to become a management consultant in the aerospace and defense fields.