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...Ranking of Kimberly Conrad, Hugh Hefner's ex-wife, in Playboy's centerfolds of the century...
...college. "Consultants learn as much in their first two years of work as they would in the first four years of any other job," Tom explains. Wang likens it to "a mathematical problem, when you define the boundaries first and then think creatively within those boundaries." So, when Conrad's approach to the data analysis problem is scattered, insists that he describe exactly what he needs her to produce. But when Conrad tries to plan "work for the plane ride home," Wang asks, "What else can I do to make your job easier? Because I know that you're under...
...cubicles to meet with her contact in the client's finance department. At his desk, she doesn't sit down--but stands by the end of his desk and takes control of the meeting. Wang exhibits the same sensitivity to people's state of mind that she showed with Conrad--she asks the man about his daughter and about the progress of his new home. The unspoken message is that she understands how full his plate is. She leaves him with a so-called structured task, as planned. It is important, she tells me, not to "outshine the client...
...After lunch in the company cafeteria, Wang returns to the team room to get started on some of the work she has agreed to do in support of Mike and Conrad. This mainly consists of managing pieces of presentations, crunching numbers in Excel and producing visual depictions of data that are simple enough to be presented to the client. During the next two hours, Wang's job begins to look a lot like those of her friends in investment banking which she describes as a low-level information gathering exercise that consists of "sitting in front of a spreadsheet...
...winds down, the team members begin discussing their flights home--Wang will return to Boston, Tom to Chicago, Mike and Conrad to Washington, D.C. They are relieved to end the week but a little frantic about what they have yet to accomplish. Tom and Scott return from their meeting with the executives, flush with that I-just-gave-a-damn-good-presentation glow...