(Source: Flickr) It will help your consulting application if you have prior business experience, however if you come from a non-business background all hope is not lost. You can strengthen your consulting application by showing how your experience demonstrates team work, leadership, and an ability to achieve positive outcomes. Use ‘action-outcome’ language in your résumé. That […]
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Play The Game
(Source: Flickr) I recently had a conversation with a friend who is studying a PhD here in Oxford. She is originally from China, and her intelligence is only exceeded by her work ethic and desire to make her PhD supervisor happy. She confessed to me with a look a mild despair on her face, “I am making slow progress. […]
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Design is about Function
(Source: Techradar) Design is about function. Every product has a job to do, as Professor Clay Christensen enjoys telling his marketing students at Harvard Business School. If a product is designed properly, then the job will get done well. Apple’s new debut wearable technology, the Apple Watch, has a sleek yet distinctively square shaped design. This seems […]