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Brews, News and Booz & Company: Interview and Culture Insights

Management Consulted

Booz & Company Interview and Culture. Where prestige, pay, exit opportunities and culture are concerned, Booz & Company ranks number 4 behind MBB. However, Booz & Company consultants are respected because of the firm’s legacy of hiring for a combination of intellectual capacity and emotional intelligence.

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To Develop Cultural Dexterity, Seek It Out

Harvard Business

Global organizations need leaders with cultural dexterity — the ability and know-how to make a sale in Seoul just as effectively as they host a meeting in Riyadh. Through interpreters, the cadets discuss various issues related to a village, careful to understand and acknowledge the other parties’ cultural norms.

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Culture in Companies, Families, and Romantic Relationships

CaseInterview.com

At Stanford, the one class I disliked the most was called “Cultures, Ideas and Values.” I’ve been thinking a lot about culture lately and how much it pervades so many aspects of human life. Let me define what I mean by culture first (as my definition is more narrow than those of my former professors).

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What You Can Do to Improve Ethics at Your Company

Harvard Business

More often the dilemmas were the result of competing interests, misaligned incentives, clashing cultures. Cross-cultural differences. Most leaders in the study reflected on how rapidly their businesses had globalized over the last 10 years and how ethical issues can be profoundly difficult when operating across different cultures.

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Servant Leadership: The Antidote to Toxic Workplaces

Rick Conlow

Employees want and need leaders who are humane, empathetic and skilled in emotional intelligence. Now, it helps if a company elevates its culture. Clients achieve record-breaking performances in sales growth, customer experience improvement, employee engagement and leadership effectiveness. 82% of managers fail.

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The Lie That Perfectionists Tell Themselves

Harvard Business

emotional intelligence skills and the capacity to reason and solve problems ) and work engagement levels begin to decline, dragging down the quality of the work produced with it. The real goal of all work is impact — whether it be impact on sales, profits, or one’s community. Some workplace cultures understand this.

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3 Common M&A Pitfalls, and How to Avoid Them

Harvard Business

Experience has taught me that the art of good M&A requires a combination of careful research, emotional intelligence, and attention to detail that might otherwise get overlooked; due diligence requires more than a scan through boxes of contracts and reviewing the balance sheet. In 2005, eBay spent $2.6