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Can Being Overconfident Make You a Better Leader?

Harvard Business

Daniel Kahneman, the 2002 Nobel prize laureate and psychologist, has said that if he had a magic wand, he’d eliminate it. To make it to the top of an organization requires not only talent, but also extreme self-belief and confidence. Most of us think of overconfidence as a bad thing.

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Serving on Boards Helps Executives Get Promoted

Harvard Business

Further, our findings suggest that if firms are looking for external talent, looking at which executives have received board appointments in their home firm or at other firms is a strong signal that these leaders have potential. Finally, our findings have implications for firms seeking new board members.

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Thoughts on PwC’s Booz Purchase

Tom Spencer

And so, as of 2002, PwC was just a big old accounting firm. We expect that the most talented Booz consultants will leave Booz even before the ink on the merger agreement is dry. Gold Fever. The consulting industry continues to grow and, in search of higher margins, PwC has thrown itself back into the consulting game head first.

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Don’t Acquire a Company Before You’ve Asked These Questions

Harvard Business

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. Notably tech firms acquired an average 250 tech companies annually between 2002 and 2011 and 350 in the years since. Julian Watt/Getty Images.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Below is a timeline of key milestones up until 2002. 2002: FTI made a major move into the corporate restructuring business with their post-Enron acquisition of the business recovery services practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers. What are your skills, strengths and talents? More rapid growth and famous casework followed.

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Advisory Board Company Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

By 2002, the firm had grown to a base of 2,100 memberships and had 500 employees. Felsenthal), a Chief Talent Officer (Mary D. Talent Development. H*Works was the first of many steps the company took towards building its prestigious (in the healthcare consulting world) consulting and managing services. Kirshbaum).

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1 Leadership Assessment Tool You Need to Try

Organizational Talent Consulting

A company-wide or team view of 360-degree feedback provides talent management insights into organizational performance and culture. Organizational Talent Consulting. Feedback collected measures the leader's performance on specific behaviors and provides insights into rater group perceptions. Doolittle, J. Luthans, F., & Thach, E.C.