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Top Power Skills Every Organizational Consultant Needs

Consulting Matters

Here's what many consultants and coaches try to do that won't work: They try to get their foot in the door in any way, thinking once they are there, they can all of a sudden be seen as a strategic advisor like making a lunch and learn, saying yes to whatever comes along and taking subcontractor gigs.

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How to get a return offer from your internship

Tom Spencer

Strong communication will make your manager’s life easier. Make your manager’s job easier by managing yourself. The people who get promoted (or a return offer following an internship) are those who do part of their manager’s job for them. Funnily enough, a big part of your manager’s job is to manage you.

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Less Marketing, More Consulting — How To Win Projects Within Your Network with Stuart Friedman: Podcast #19

Consulting Success

This Silicon Valley-based previous electrical engineer with a passion for theater studied at Carnegie Mellon, then started his career in product marketing and sales before becoming a VP General Manager. Stuart has consulted many high-profile companies, but he prefers to maintain a mix of large and small clients in his business.

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The Top 15 Management Skills Revisited

Nash Consulting

You’re an excellent engineer/IT professional/accountant/[choose your own adventure]…we’re going to reward you by promoting you to a management role. Welcome to management. The second is that there really aren’t any specialized skills related to being a good manager. Let’s take them one at a time: 1. Congratulations!

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Consultant ? What's Your Natural Approach to Problem Solving.

Consulting and Organizational Management

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Library Blogs Home. This Blogs Home. To Subscribe to a Blog. Some people might argue, too, that the world is much too chaotic for the rational approach to be useful. Translate This. Guest Writer Submissions. Define the problem.

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Treat the Interviewer Like a Client

CaseInterview.com

Your materials have been helpful in many different ways, from the psychologic preparation to the technical approach to solving the case. Let's start from my technical preparation in business cases, for the record I'm 24 years old and I hold a MSc in chemical and bio engineering, with no business background whatsoever.

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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business

You’ll shift from the reactive mode of supporting requests as they happen to the proactive mode of fixing issues before they ever become a problem. I grew with the team, and played a big role in many of our successes … and failures. I grew with the team, and played a big role in many of our successes … and failures.

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