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'By: Anne Janzer The Women In Consulting team has just finished crunching the numbers from the latest WIC Compensation Best Practices Annual Survey. And, ahead of the final report, here’s the advanced scoop on this year’s research: revenues are up, but profitability is down. If you’re not familiar with it, every year Women In Consulting does its annual Best Practices in Compensation survey for consultants.
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'We often use the term “organizational muscle” as a way to bring the concept of “capabilities” to life. It is a useful analogy. If execution of strategy is the goal, then the organization is a means to that end. The measure of success of any design is what it allows the organization to “do” better than the competition. Both muscles in the body and capabilities in the organization: Turn energy into motion using positive tension.
'We’re on a Tour Throwback trip…welcome to Part 4. If you missed our recaps of Georgia Tech , Duke , or Georgetown , read those first. If you are just joining us, we are holding our next 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp in San Francisco on September 21. Or, invite us to come present a 2-hour Bootcamp Lite (60 attendees minimum, lecture) or 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp (8-30 participants/day, interactive w/breakouts) – we would be honored to meet with you.
'If you can imagine it, then it can become a reality. ADAM Spencer (no relation) gives a wonderful speech about the beauty of mathematics, the search for the largest prime number, and the age in which we now live – the age of machine aided human discovery. As Adam poetically states, “numbers are the musical notes with which the symphony of the universe is written.” And machines are now being used to help us discover that universe.
'My notes from conversational interview: Situation: Graduating senior interested in management consulting, but from regular state school majoring in history and economics, and doesn''t know where to start. None of the major consulting firms recruit at her school, and she didn''t know where to start. Objective: How do I get into a management consulting job?
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'Home. About. Book Shop. Archive. Definitions. Helpful Links. Quotes. Subscribe. Mercedes Leads the Race to Build Autonomous Cars. by Tom Spencer on September 10, 2013 · 0 comments. in Leadership. Look mum, no hands! Mercedes-Benz S500 Intelligent Drive has driven itself 125km through Germany without driver intervention. MERCEDES-BENZ has demonstrated its capabilities with self-driving technology and provided a glimpse of the future by successfully driving its prototype S-Class from Mannh
Mastering data visualization in PowerPoint will help accelerate your career because it positions you as someone who can present data that drives business decisions forward. think-cell's PowerPoint Best Practices eBook was created specifically for professionals aiming to master the art and science of data-driven storytelling. What’s inside: Practical Insights: Uncover valuable tips for crafting engaging and persuasive presentations.
'My works won''t be worn away by the sands of time, with faint echoes of greatness that the sleuth can uncover, ponder, and imagine. They''ll be buried under a billion bits of information worker detrius - the daily shedding of dead data inside the corporate organism. Having fun along the way can never be taken away and is binarily different from a daily loathing; meanwhile, while the analog gap between making an impact and just pushing the paper fades to zero as time progresses.
'By: Kate Purmal Editor’s note: Kate inspired us all to cultivate a long term vision at the July WIC monthly meeting. In this blog, she offers specific guidance for doing this kind of long-term planning. Long-term planning. We all know it’s important. But for most of us, it’s the to-do that always slips to the bottom — or right off — the list!
'It appears there may be some energy sources in Syria that I was unaware of previously. They are in the Golan Heights area of Syria, now occupied by Israel. Dick Cheney is in the picture. Please consider Cheney-Linked Company to Drill in Occupied Golan Heights. The Israeli government awarded a local subsidiary of U.S.-based Genie Energy the rights to explore for oil and natural gas in about 150 square miles of the southern section of the Golan Heights.
'Same waves, different day. The risk of skin cancer. The falling. Sand in your socks. The people hassling you for your spot on the wave. The pressure to do more sets. The other guys at the beach who don''t appreciate your style. The drudgery of doing it again tomorrow, when the weather sucks. And then every day, from now on, never ceasing. Where would you go on vacation?
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'Welcome back to Tour Throwback Week. We hustled up and down the U.S. East Coast, visiting Georgia Tech , Duke , Georgetown , and Columbia , Yale, and Harvard. Check out our adventures and misadventures before reading today’s post. If you want a small group setting to accelerate your case interview performance (like, 0-60 in a day) join us next weekend in San Francisco – September 21 for our last 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp in the U.S. this year (includes a full resume/cover let
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'By: Renee Daggett There are times when the IRS intimidates taxpayers and they are so fearful, they will pay a notice without verifying the accuracy. The IRS may not have all the facts, so do not pay anything without checking the details. However on the flip side, I have seen taxpayers ignore letters and make the situation much worse. Dealing with the IRS can be stressful.
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'On the first Friday of every month, I go through the jobs report and note the grossly distorted statistics. For example, please see BLS in Wonderland written Friday, September 6. Every month I conclude with a couple paragraphs like these: Grossly Distorted Statistics. Were it not for people dropping out of the labor force, the unemployment rate would be over 9%.
'It''s more of a skirmish, actually. Plenty of recruiters and those in HR like to talk about engaging in a war for talent, but to be truthful, most of it is about finding good enough people at an acceptable rate of pay. Filling slots. More relevant and urgent, though, is that it''s not really a search for talent. It''s a search for attitude. There are a few jobs where straight up skills are all we ask for.
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