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PARADE Method

CaseInterview.com

The PARADE Method (tm) is an approach to answering resume-oriented job interview questions. It is an approach I developed that is tailored for answering these questions in job interviews for management consulting, as well as interviews for senior executive positions in industry. Interviewers want to know what you did.

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The Decline of Yahoo in Its Own Words

Harvard Business

Plenty of theories have been put forth to explain Yahoo’s failures, as the company seeks a buyer following a failed turnaround attempt. Did Yahoo’s leadership really miss the importance of smartphones? One of the most prominent is that Yahoo was late to mobile. Perhaps by 2012 it was already too late.

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Leaders Need Different Skills to Thrive in Tech

Harvard Business

A series of jarring experiences have taught you that: Your management authority is meaningless in a culture that worships engineers. We then interviewed more than a dozen U.S. As the interviews progressed, we developed seven categories that captured similar challenges. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

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The Mistakes PE Firms Make When They Pick CEOs for Portfolio Companies

Harvard Business

Since 2009 we have interviewed and surveyed 181 executives who run PE-owned companies, as well as eight to 15 people who work with each of these 181 executives (supervisors, board members, director reports, and others). But that set off the field engineers’ alarm bells. In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co.

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To Grow as a Leader, Seek More Complex Assignments

Harvard Business

I’ve interviewed thousands of candidates for managerial roles and tracked the performance of those I successfully hired. The sad part is that all of them had started off strong: they were engineers with an average tenure of more than 20 years in R&D and product strategy and marketing. What we found was an incredible paradox.