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Your Favorite HBR Articles of 2023

Harvard Business

And how specifically did it change the way you operate? They called out articles ranging from a 2001 classic article about managing your energy as a worker to a recent magazine piece on storytelling for leaders. We heard from readers in a variety of different industries, writing in from various corners of the world.

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Eight Secret Weapons of the Modern Consultant

Steve Shu Consulting

Although I’ve developed a number of blog posts addressing the practice of management consulting, I have spent little time tying things together into a framework of secret weapons of the modern consultant. A modern consultant is a professional that can work in dynamic industries, operate within multiple types of consulting organizations (e.g.,

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The Role of a Manager Has to Change in 5 Key Ways

Harvard Business

. “First, let’s fire all the managers” said Gary Hamel almost seven years ago in Harvard Business Review. For almost 100 years, management has been associated with the five basic functions outlined by management theorist Henri Fayol: planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling.

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NSA Breaks Into Secure Communication Links of Google and Yahoo; Italian Magazine Claims NSA Monitors Pope

MishTalk

The NSA’s principal tool to exploit the data links is a project called MUSCULAR , operated jointly with the agency’s British counterpart, GCHQ. Italian Magazine Claims NSA Monitors Pope. This story is not yet confirmed but Reuters reports Italian magazine says U.S. spies listened to pope, Vatican says unaware.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

Since that time, it has become the fastest growing management consulting firm today. After building a successful model in financial services, Oliver Wyman expanded to offer pure strategy consulting services to non-financial services groups and now has 2 internal divisions that operate relatively independently. Mercer buys Oliver Wyman.

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Brews, News and Booz & Company: Interview and Culture Insights

Management Consulted

Booz, who could very well possibly be considered the father of management consulting as a career. It is one of the original “white-shoe” firms, accredited with being the origination of the management consulting profession. Most recently, Booz & Company acquired Management Engineers , based in Dusseldorf, Germany. Automotive.

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Finite Attention Spans and Employee Agility Driving Corporate Training Trends

Clarity Consultants

L&D leaders have been instrumental in helping employers and employees pivot to pandemic protocols and navigate both remote and hybrid operations and corporate culture. When viewed in the context of an unstable or uncertain job market, continuous learning is essential to creating and maintaining an agile workforce and operations.

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