Word: mike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After her conference call, Wang meets with Mike to discuss, among other things, how to boost the interest and engagement of the client's employees. Wang and Mike decide that, in order to keep a particular staff member connected with the project, it is necessary to give him something...
...project director--he is an extremely hard worker, a prime example of the overachieving, self-confident and macho personality that seems to serve you well in consulting. He has a reputation for working very long hours and pushing his people hard. In the middle of Wang's meeting with Mike, Tom whips out a draft document that he thinks will help their planning--surprised, Mike asks when such a plan was created. Tom replies that he wrote the plan "between 1 and 2:30 yesterday. You'd be afraid if you knew what went on inside my head everyday...
...After her meeting with Mike, Wang has breakfast. It is 10:04 a.m.; perhaps she hasn't completely shaken off her undergraduate schedule...
...Family is a complicated question for a consultant. When a parent/spouse is out of town for an average of four days and three nights per week, they must make some pretty significant compromises. Tom, who has a daughter, and Mike, who is married, both assure me that happy families and management consulting are not mutually exclusive. Mike says that it has always been challenging for him and his wife but that her recent return to school has made it less difficult. "She has class at night on each of the days that I'm out of town, so she doesn...
...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...