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How to Manage a More Experienced Direct Report

CaseInterview.com

It means you recruited well. The ham radio operations team reporting to me will be far more capable at radio operations than I am. The ham radio operations team reporting to me will be far more capable at radio operations than I am. Assign issues to direct reports. Your direct report has functional expertise.

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AlixPartners Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

AlixPartners is an international business advisory firm based in Southfield, MI known for its work in corporate turnarounds, bankruptcy assignments and restructuring. Generally regarded as turnaround market leaders, AlixPartners is doing a killer job at taking up more room in the consulting space by strategically hiring a plethora of gurus.

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Student Consulting ? Does it deliver?

Tom Spencer

This may include discrete projects completed at arms length, such as due diligence on a transaction, or turnaround projects where consultants are embedded within an organisation. At my previous management consulting firm, student consulting clubs are informally known as the “kiss of death” by recruiters.

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Outsider CEOs Are on the Rise at the World’s Biggest Companies

Harvard Business

Outsiders, in effect, have become more of an intentional leadership choice than a stereotypical hire in a turnaround or crisis situation. That helps explain why 38% of incoming CEOs in the telecommunications industry during the previous four years were recruited from outside the company. one of the authors of the study.

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How to Overcome Executive Isolation

Harvard Business

All senior leaders are surrounded by physical or virtual trappings of office — the formal decor, the board dinners, the financial reports, the assistants that manage travel and scheduling, the intensive calendar that leaves little time for reflection. Second, get out of the bubble. But there are other, less dramatic techniques, too.

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Leaders Need Different Skills to Thrive in Tech

Harvard Business

Two of your most senior managers never do a lick of work—and are only on the payroll to keep competitors from recruiting them. They must deliver on tight timelines, quick turnarounds and short project cycles. People who are their peers today become managers, peers or direct reports in another company tomorrow.

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The Mistakes PE Firms Make When They Pick CEOs for Portfolio Companies

Harvard Business

Since 2009 we have interviewed and surveyed 181 executives who run PE-owned companies, as well as eight to 15 people who work with each of these 181 executives (supervisors, board members, director reports, and others). But CEOs at the best-run PE-owned firms we’ve worked with emphasize both recruiting and talent development.

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