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Milk? Seriously? The Perfect Response When Things Go Sour

David A Fields

Last week, an expertly trained professional gently removed the thin film of grime and buffed some new-age, uber protective coating onto my sedan. How you handle the situation as a consultant makes all the difference. For instance, one of life’s little pleasures is a freshly detailed car.

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How to Prepare for a Crisis You Couldn’t Possibly Predict

Harvard Business

Some teams, such as film crews and SWAT teams, face surprises all the time. When the power goes out at a filming location, film crews figure out how to resume shooting as soon as possible. In the film industry, this knowledge comes from how people progress through their careers. How do they do it?

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Management Consulted Goes to London (and Beyond)

Management Consulted

Arriving at LSE, we were met with bad news: the film club was in our room. As if traveling across the ocean on the plane wasn’t enough, we felt it necessary to use as many forms of transportation as necessary…so we took a train up to Durham University. Half the plane was empty so we could stretch out!

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Your Strategy Has to Be Flexible — But So Does Your Execution

Harvard Business

Businesses can be equally complex: a diversity initiative, for example, might include some compulsory training, but if this triggers sentiments of resistance and skepticism, it can be self-defeating. In 1972, the policy was therefore adjusted so that only man-made fires were fought. As we now know, the company lost to rivals.

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Looking to Drastically Reduce College Costs? Study Abroad!

MishTalk

My oldest son is studying film-making in one of Europe''s newest and most modern film schools, located right here in Tallinn, for 3,400 EUR total per year. Before he enrolled last fall, we did some research about his different options in different countries. So why should one study in the USA at all?

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Lots of Men Are Gender-Equality Allies in Private. Why Not in Public?

Harvard Business

In the last week, film producer Harvey Weinstein’s decades of sexual harassment — which many have described as an open secret in Hollywood — have exploded onto the pages of the New York Times. Bystander intervention trainings have helped people understand and get over their hesitation to get involved.

Film 134
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Set the Conditions for Anyone on Your Team to Be Creative

Harvard Business

That goes far beyond the intermittent training that most organizations do. You can see this at work at Pixar, which was originally a technology company that began shooting short films to demonstrate the capabilities of its original product, animation software. That’s the hard part.”

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