Tom Spencer

APRIL 13, 2019

“Case study interviews put you in the driver’s seat: you’re given a real business problem to work through and solve. A common trademark in the consulting recruitment process is the case study interview. A given case study will have several credible solutions ( Accenture, 2018 ). What should I expect? Advice for the day.

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Harvard Business

JULY 3, 2018

Libeskind was interviewed for the July-August 2018 issue of Harvard Business Review. He also talks about his unusual creative process and shares tips for collaborating and managing emotions and expectations of multiple stakeholders. Download this podcast.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 25, 2022

What really turned my head about Jodee, both then and in this interview, is her natural positivity gift and how she leverages it to serve her clients better, create a business, and life that she loves and does it all with a spirit of grace and balance.

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On the Brink Podcast

MARCH 23, 2021

I interviewed Jamie for this podcast back in 2018 and it was such a terrific conversation that I'm reposting it for Women's History Month. Ever wonder how some business leaders can take a company forward, build its bottom line, and engage its employees and customers in such a way that everyone does better? Meet Jamie Candee.

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Management Consulted

JULY 10, 2016

The following 7 categories of people have 8 days left to apply at McKinsey for a full-time position (provided they finish their programs in 2017/2018): PhDs. Once you’ve passed the resume screen, you’ll be invited in to a local office for a first round interview. Almost always, the case interview will come first.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 4, 2019

Bill Nielsen graduated from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business last June, and began working at Bain & Company in Chicago in September 2018. The cases really are key – make sure you like doing them, because they aren’t just important during the interview phase.

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On the Brink Podcast

OCTOBER 31, 2022

As this gorgeous fall rolls on, I continue to share with you some of my favorite On The Brink interviews from the last five years. Today I share with you my October 2019 interview with Samantha Radocchia (Sam Rad). Sam also did a podcast with me back in 2018 on blockchain, which was shared widely. What's the connecting theme?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Actually, a new study interviewed 18,000 employees across 96 international companies and found that 70% of employees are working remotely once a week and 53% are spending half the week away from the office. The 2018 Future Workforce Report by Upwork claims 63% of U.S. employers are offering some form of flex option. Loneliness.

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Halo Psych

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Two frameworks that many managers have told me they find helpful are the BEAR framework and the Feed Forward Interview. The feedforward interview. What goals do I need to achieve? Feedback how am I doing? Feed forward where do I go next? Self-awareness REFERENCES Ashford, S.J., Journal of Organizational Behavior, 39 (1), 82-95.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2018

As part of our research for the book, we interviewed over 40 successful leaders of large corporations, startups, and non-profits to get their views about what it takes to become a leader. Take the case of Dominic Barton, who served as the Global Managing Director of McKinsey & Company from 2009-2018.

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Harvard Business

JULY 2, 2018

As I worked through the interviews, I found that executives whose careers had been derailed shared many commonalities. For instance, Gil Amelio was Apple’s CEO for less than a year in 1997, and General Motors’ chief human resources officer decamped in 2018 after just eight months in the job. The leap into leadership.

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Harmonious Workplaces

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In 2022, at the age of 46, I interviewed for a marketing executive position with a tool manufacturer. After five or so interviews, the hiring manager stated that they wanted a “digital native.” The interview ended. I interviewed with several members of the team, including the parent of one of the executives. MarketWatch.

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Handbook Case Interview Education Training 98

Tom Spencer

JULY 25, 2020

If you’ve ever found yourself praying before an interview for the universe to help you “just get this one offer”, you’re experiencing the symptoms of these fundamentally tough market conditions. They show up to interviews as a shell of their former enthusiastic and confident selves. So, make these few months count.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 5, 2018

According to the World Economic Forum’s 2018 “Future of Jobs” report, many current organizational roles are likely to be disappear as early as 2022, only to be replaced by new organizational roles. Francesco Carta fotografo/Getty Images. You may already be seeing these changes in your organization.

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Consulting Matters

JULY 7, 2022

This interview is THAT powerful. In January 2018, Jim was promoted to the role of Chief Operating Officer/Senior Vice President, Walt Disney World® Resort. Ready for new ways of thinking about leadership and actionable inspiration to find and work with C-Suite executives (or executives on their way to the C-Suite) like Jim?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

As of June 2018, corporate occupiers make up roughly one-quarter of WeWork’s members and revenues. We’ve separately toured and interviewed principals in more than a dozen corporate coworking spaces in the U.S., It’s also creating stand-alone locations for individual clients such as IBM, UBS , and Facebook.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 8, 2021

I have recently been asked questions on how pioneering inventions will interact with government regulation in multiple consultancy interviews. This led to extensive litigation throughout the adoption period between 2016 and 2018. GDPR and the problematic Article 17. It also turned out to be one of the EU’s most controversial measures.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2018

. “Interestingly, when I sold my company, I suspect that the PE firm who bought us thought less of my business acumen…simply because I was paying myself about half what my male counterpart was making,” Deutschmann said in an interview.

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On the Brink Podcast

OCTOBER 17, 2022

I interviewed Marcella for this podcast back in 2018 and what she said about how you can be a force for change in your organization even if you're not a CEO or boss or manager was so groundbreaking that I want to share our conversation with you again, in my salute to amazing women throughout the fall.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

I have now interviewed hundreds of actual entrepreneurs — including founders of Amazon, Apple, Biogen, Boston Scientific, iRobot, Netflix, PayPal, and YouTube — as well as new venture and innovation leaders in large companies like Disney, Target, Toyota, and Coca-Cola. Fly-your-own-plane-to-your-own-private-island-level wealth.

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Halo Psych

MARCH 10, 2025

9) Reflective practice might help us manage emotions For example, in a study involving more than 400 military cadets in Italy , researchers found that self-efficacy in managing negative emotions at work was an important resource for workers in managing job-related stress (Alessandri et al, 2018). Self-awareness REFERENCES Alessandri, G.,

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 17, 2018

At the CES 2018 held in Las Vegas, Steve Koenig , Senior Director of Market Research at Consumer Technology Association, presented on tech trends to watch. Outlining the big picture, he described 2018 as the beginning of the “ data era of consumer tech”, with the heralds of that coming age being 5G, AI, and AR. Where are we now?

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Data Case Interview Financial Exercises 87

Strategy+Business

JANUARY 11, 2018

In the first interview in our new "Inside the Mind of the CEO" series -- which kicks off PwC's 2018 CEO Survey -- Oracle's chief executive explains the broad culture shift brought on by AI and cloud technologies.

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Survey Interviews Culture 53

Jerry Fletcher

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

In the 2004 study23% of the people interviewed said they would trust someone just like them. Notice the dates. Only one is as recent as 2020. That is the first problem. The second is wading through the linguistic torture of scholarly articles where communication is sacrificed on an altar of accuracy resulting in impenetrable obfuscation.

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On the Brink Podcast

APRIL 30, 2020

We first interviewed him in September, 2018 which you can listen to here.) Remember, each statistic represents a real person. I invited Cal Halvorsen to join us again to talk about his perspectives on the next stage of life for older adults. (We In today's podcast, we talk about the abrupt changes this pandemic has created for seniors.

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2018

The 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer reveals that China, the UAE, and Sweden are experiencing dramatic gains in their faith in institutions while the United States has seen a drop of 37 points. In countries like India, South Africa, Italy, and the United States, institutional trust is declining. But this is not a global trend.

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Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Job seekers report on peer-support calls and during networking meetings that they have had their interviews postponed or canceled. Candidates who may have undergone two, three, or even six rounds of interviews may find that they must now wait to see if organizations actually fill the positions, much less whether they will have a job.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Last August, back at the Agile 2018 conference, I had a chance to record a podcast with Howard Sublett. Howard is a terrific interviewer and a good friend and colleague. We spoke about Making Roadmaps More Agile. We had a blast. Several times, I surprised him with some of my thinking and experience.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 24, 2019

In my last blog post I interviewed a fellow CEMSie, who heads partnership advisory at ScanTrust by day and co-runs BerChain by night, about the potential focus areas for blockchain in supply chain and one of the world’s most impressive blockchain ecosystems: Berlin. In 2018 it was bootstrapped and run by volunteers, there was no sponsorship.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 6, 2020

Due to the boom of the internet, nearly one third of apparel and footwear was sold online in 2018 (vs 1% in 2010). To understand the target customers on this level, methods such as focus groups, surveys, interviews, and case studies can be successful. Psychographic segmentation.

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Cheryl Cran

JANUARY 30, 2018

Fortune 500 article indicates there are 5 million jobs that companies are looking to fill in 2018. The days of a recruiter requiring numerous interviews to hire someone are gone for now. The post Top Ten Ways to Attract Top Talent in 2018 appeared first on Cheryl Cran.

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Halo Psych

APRIL 7, 2025

Download the BEAR feedback sketchnote Download the Feedforward sketchnote Kate Russell, an HR expert, in an interview with People Management magazine in 2018 offers a sobering reminder of why we need to put the effort in, It’s about standards and how you communicate them.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 10, 2018

Your goal for 2018 is to grow the time you spend on A list activities and to shrink the C list activities as much as possible. Think you’ll go crazy if you have to spend another day interviewing college graduates? Find someone to take over at least some of the interviews for you. Find a guest columnist to do it.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

About the Research This article is based on research conducted over 10 years in support of our recently published book, The CEO Next Door (Currency, 2018). This data was gathered through structured interviews with every executive.

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Cheryl Cran

JANUARY 30, 2018

Fortune 500 article indicates there are 5 million jobs that companies are looking to fill in 2018. The days of a recruiter requiring numerous interviews to hire someone are gone for now. The post Top Ten Ways to Attract Top Talent in 2018 appeared first on NextMapping. A lot of companies are looking at unorthodox and […].

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2018

By contrast, the laws of most advanced industrial countries require the board to be composed of a majority of independent directors, who are interviewed and recommended by its nominating committee. The Nissan board also has no nominating committee; its chairman chooses the independent directors, subject to the board’s approval.

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QEmploy

JUNE 10, 2019

Joe Rogan, an influential podcast host, stated in 2018 that “ there is not enough time in the day ” when referring to everyday life. It features the latest news in the sector and in depth interviews from experts. It features interviews with network engineers, industry experts, guests from academia and the tech community and many more.

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