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Consultant Ninja: Another Casualty of the Financial Crises.

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. I think a more interesting graph would show each fund against a respective benchmark (e.g., Management Consulting. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Consultant Ninja.

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Managing Risks and Controlling Projects: How Data-Driven Project Management Come in Useful for Multi-Project Environments

Epicflow

This article is inspired by the webinar featuring Epicflow co-founder Jan Willem Tromp and professor Mario Vanhoucke based on his latest book “The Illusion of Control: Project Data, Computer Algorithms and Human Intuition for Project Management and Control”. So, what do you need for an efficient risk analysis? First of all, you need data.

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Singapore Set for Icelandic-Style Property Bubble Meltdown; Hype or Reality?

MishTalk

percent even as the country’s red hot construction sector has been attracting overseas workers, and a growing number of wealthy citizens are hiring domestic helpers from neighboring countries like the Philippines and Indonesia. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.'

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WalMart Margins Set to Plunge? Will Rest of Retail Follow? What About Jobs?

MishTalk

Retail sales reports on Wednesday have me thinking about the strength of the economy, commercial construction, jobs, and profit margins. Fewer Stores, Less Hiring Fewer stores means less construction and less hiring. Wal-Mart''s same-store sales — an industry benchmark of health — haven''t risen in six quarters.

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Nonfarm Payrolls +113,000, Median Bloomberg Estimate 180,000; Huge March 2013 Employment Revision

MishTalk

The benchmark revision incorporates a large non-economic change that resulted from a reclassification of 466,000 jobs from private households (out of scope by CES definition) to services for the elderly and disabled (in scope for CES). Employment grew in construction, manufacturing, wholesale trade, and mining. percent, the U.S.

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Decision-Making Traps for Teams to Avoid

LSA Global

Top Biases and Tips to Mitigate Them Based upon new manager training data, here is the list of the most common decision-making traps for teams and tips to avoid them. Tips to Mitigate Overconfidence Bias Foster a culture of humility, benchmarking, continuous learning. It can also lead to complacency.

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11 Habits of Truly Terrific Employees

Rick Conlow

If you are a manager, seek out these traits in people as you recruit and hire new people. I have met hundreds of terrific employees and managers through consulting projects over the last twenty years. Manage the tasks no one else likes to do and do them well. Unfortunately, they are way to rare. 5 Habits of Terrific Employees.