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The Lockdown Unlocks Real Work

Markovitz Consulting

Peter Drucker once quipped that, “Much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work.” Recent research from the Boston Consulting Group confirms that employees can do better work when they’re liberated from much of the bureaucratic cruft that passes for daily management. Four-hour meetings?

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The Field of Emergency Management: Why It Is Not A Profession

Melissa Agnes

The issue of emergency management as a profession has been discussed and debated for several years. In addition to performing the duties of an emergency manager, there are political and policy-making issues requiring the emergency manager’s attention. Emergency managers are engaged in a time of significant change. .

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Consultant Ninja: When "hedging" is just speculation: Management.

Consultant Ninja

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. It also appears that UAL did very little hedging in 2007 or 2006. Management Consulting. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Consultant Ninja. Wednesday, March 4, 2009.

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Manage time using Business Process Re-engineering (BPR)

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: Manage time using Business Process Re-engineering (BPR). BPR your life takes the principles of business process re-engineering and applies them to the way you manage your time (and therefore your life). This article was published in Leadership Excellence in 2006.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Former ECB Chief.

MishTalk

We are entering a new phase of crisis management, "Stark told the Handelsblatt (Friday edition). Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. December 2006 (29). November 2006 (20). October 2006 (17). September 2006 (20). August 2006 (37).

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Business Book Review: Lords of Strategy

Management Consulted

If you are pondering how management consulting got this far, this book is for you. By 2006, 146K MBA degrees were granted. If you want to submit a review on a book you’ve been reading, follow the same format, target 600+ words and send it over by email! —————— Why read it?

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Expect Another "Bad Bank.

MishTalk

Until June 1, Sareb had managed to sell 700 properties (550 in the first 3 months). billion euros (management costs over the interests of balance financed 92% with debt), one does not have to be a whiz to guess that unless some fantasy book scene happens, Sareb losses in 2013 will be hundreds of millions of euros. December 2006 (29).

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