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Consultant Ninja: Signs of Crunch Time: Management Consulting Blog

Consultant Ninja

Countdown metric unit shrinking. ["96 Client timeline shortening. Lets shoot for a Wednesday draft"] Partner involvement growing. ["I I havent seen a deck in a while. Can you please send the most recent version over?"] 96 hours until were done."] Cursing off the chart. ["f**k." damn, why doesnt that add up?"] Car rental abuse appearing.

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Project Management: What an L&D Professional Needs to Know

Clarity Consultants

Along with identifying measurable targets and outlining core goals, L&D professionals must limit scope creep to ensure the project remains on time and on budget. Time Management. Breaking down large projects into smaller milestones helps support reliable time estimations at the outset of a project. Communication.

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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. According to Bain’s Macro Trends Group, the global supply of capital stands at nearly 10 times global GDP. Vincent Tsui for HBR.

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Team Interdependence for Higher Performance

LSA Global

While each team has different needs, top teaming skills include communication , conflict resolution, change management, decision making , goal setting, planning, delegation, meeting facilitation , problem solving, and time management. Does the composition of your team make sense to get you where you want to go?

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Mental Energy Units

CaseInterview.com

When you’re an individual contributor, you focus mainly on time management. As you progress in your professional career (and as your personal life gets more complex, such as raising multiple children or caring for aging parents), it makes sense to optimize your life around a different kind of metric. There are 24 hours in a day.

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A Refresher on A/B Testing

Harvard Business

In this case, let’s say your metric is the number of visitors who click on the button. To run the test, you show two sets of users (assigned at random when they visit the site) the different versions (where the only thing different is the size of the button) and determine which influenced your success metric the most.

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What Great Managers Do Daily

Harvard Business

Inspired by Gallup’s findings about the influential role managers play on employee engagement, we wanted to understand what made managers of highly engaged employees different than the rest on a day-to-day basis. Managers lead by example when it comes to working hours. The results were illuminating.