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The More Senior Your Job Title, the More You Need to Keep a Journal

Harvard Business

The best thinking comes from structured reflection — and the best way to do that is keeping a personal journal. I started keeping a journal when I took over a manufacturing research, software, and consulting firm. I was very young, we were in crisis facing a challenging market, and I wasn’t sure whom I could rely on.

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The Real Reason the German Labor Market Is Booming

Harvard Business

Considering how Germany anchors a European continent plagued by high unemployment and slow growth, its labor market is on fire. Analysts criticized the country’s labor market institutions as particularly inflexible. The number of unemployed has been halved over the past decade. With just 2.6 trillion in 2016.

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How to Write a White Paper That Wins Consulting Projects, with Gordon Graham: Podcast #4

Consulting Success

His career path took him from software company technical writing and journalism to a marketing executive in a software company before becoming an independent copywriter who specializes in white papers and case studies. Gordon has spent the last 20 years dominating his field as the expert of white papers.

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What Do Creative Marketers Look Like?

The Fearless Marketer

Judy is one of the most creative (and effective marketers) of her professional services that I have ever met. Not only that, she’s really enthusiastic about her marketing. Judy went on to grow her business very successfully over the next three decades and continues to market it in creative ways. Cheers, Robert.

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An Overview of Digital Marketing Consulting

Tom Spencer

Digital marketing consultants provide marketing advice and optimize the online presence of organizations so that they can be easily found by their target audience. Businesses, non-profits, and governments are all interested in increasing their online visibility, and digital marketing consultants have the ability to make this happen.

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Case Interviews: How to Stand Out in the Crowd

Tom Spencer

The scenarios can range from market entry strategies to profitability analysis, mergers and acquisitions, and more. If you are not from a business background, it is important to learn basic concepts such as market sizing, supply and demand, competitive analysis, and basic financial principles such as profit margins and break-even analysis.

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It’s Time to Make Business School Research More Relevant

Harvard Business

In an Academy of Management Journal editorial, we described two problems that contribute to this challenge. Researchers have found that managers tend to be unaware of research-supported management insights reported in academic journals, and that such insights are typically excluded in practitioner-oriented journals.

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