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The Art of Storytelling in Corporate Training

Clarity Consultants

For instance, a global hotel chain successfully improved onboarding by incorporating service-based scenarios into their custom eLearning solutions, which helped new hires quickly adapt to the companys culture and develop professional skills.

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David and Goliath: How Boutique Firms Triumph

Tom Spencer

Competitive Pricing Boutique firms often lack the traditional overhead and operational costs plaguing larger firms, which allows them to offer clients more competitive pricing. Larger firms also tend to have high operational costs, which means clients end up paying more than the advertised sticker price for each project.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

Long before becoming CEO, in 2016, he was searching for new growth in the hypercompetitive travel reservations market, coming across a pair of small European startups with a business model opposite to Priceline’s in two key ways: Instead of taking an up-front 25% commission on a hotel reservation, the startups charged only 15% after check-out.

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Please Hold and Listen to Horrid Music While We Pretend to Find Ms. Jones

Alan Weiss

The more complex we make things in the name of high technology, the more difficult they are to use: hotel phone systems, big screen TVs, car dashboards, cable boxes, airplane entertainment systems. How simple or difficult are your methodology and systems? How simple or difficult are your methodology and systems?

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

Some of the major practice areas that the NYC region focuses on are corporate development, corporate finance, digital economy, globalization, growth, information technology, marketing & sales operations, people and organization, post merger integration, risk management, strategy, sustainability, and transformation.

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More Universities Need to Teach Sales

Harvard Business

Compared to professions like engineering or business disciplines like Finance or Operations, the concept of a dedicated salesperson is relatively recent. Each group has its own operating procedures. But Sales is changing, Academia is out of touch, and this is bad for business and the academy.

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7 Charts Show How Political Affiliation Shapes U.S. Boards

Harvard Business

Boards of companies operating in the consumer discretionary industry have a disproportionately high representation of Democrats, while boards operating in the industrials and energy and utilities industries skew more Republican. METHODOLOGY. We did not find any notable differences by age group or education.