Archive | April, 2012

Pre-launch start-up looking to connect with business professionals

Categories: Business, entrepreneurship, other sites

Recently, I was contacted by the founder of a pre-launch start-up called Flevy, which will be a marketplace for selling formats for business documents. Basically, these formats will be templates that folks can use as a starting point to create their own deliverables without having the reinvent the wheel. In my view, this is a fantastic idea and, as someone who has had to create my fair share of docs from scratch, this will be a major time-saver for professionals.

At this point, Flevy is trying to populate its marketplace with content and they reached out to me to … Read the rest

Beat The GMAT 2012 Scholarship – Deadline: April 23, 2012

Categories: application process, application resources, Bschool admissions, Business School, Education, mba, other blogs, other sites

As my long-time readers know, I’m all about passing along opportunities for free help with products and services related to the MBA application process. In this entry, I’ve got a really good one for you guys.

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Consulting Analyst requesting advice on applying to Stanford GSB

Categories: Bschool admissions, Business, Business School, Education, mba, Stanford GSB

The email below is from an Analyst in Accenture’s Management Consulting group, who I met through a program where I serve as a coach to consultants in the first couple of years in their careers. During a recent in-person seminar for participants in this program, she approached me with questions about Stanford GSB, her first-choice school. We chatted for a bit at that session and she followed up with the email below.

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MM wrote:

Hi Marquis,

Thanks for the great conversation in St. Charles. How have you been?

I’ve been doing well. MLT is kicking-off. I just had a

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The 20 best personal development books for 20-somethings

Categories: book review, career, career-life balance, Education, real life stuff

Hey, everyone. I’m posting a quick entry to share an article that was recently sent to me by Tim Handorf from the team at BestOnlineColleges.com. Tim thought that it would be tailor-made for the folks who frequent my blog because of many of you are in the middle of your formative career-development year. After reading it, I totally agree with him.

The interesting thing about the books in this list is that it isn’t all about career development. Instead, they take the idea of “personal development” and make it all encompassing. The books that they’ve chosen cover topics like … Read the rest