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| Andrew Nygard |
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| Occupation |
| Management Consultant / Managing Partner, NTA Partners LLC |
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| First Car |
| 1971 Chevy Impala |
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| Favorite Restaurant |
| Silver Spoon Thai |
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| What are three things most people don't know about you? |
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| In reality, People who know me know just about everything there is to know - I'm a WYSIWG sort of guy. |
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| What's the best memory from your youth? |
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| Stealing peacock feathers from Cornell's ornithology labs with my cousins |
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| If you could have a conversation with a person of your choice, past, present or future, who would that person be and why? |
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| Chogyam Trungpa (Buddhist teacher, 1939 - 1987) - to try and understand what crazy wisdom and the way of the shambhala warrior really are about. |
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| What's the hardest thing you've ever done in your life? |
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| Develop a personal meditation practice (still trying ...) |
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| What's your favorite hobby? |
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| Woodworking - after a week's worth of consulting, there's nothing like actually seeing something done with your own hands. |
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| What are you currently reading? |
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| A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul |
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| What is your favorite book? |
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| A really hard question, so many to pick from, but now I'd say Neuromancer by William Gibson for his visionary depiction of future society and the impact of technology on it.
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| Is there a particular place or thing you want to see? |
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| BKS Iyengar's Yoga Studio in Pune, India - say for a couple of month's worth of study ...
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| If you could give $10,000 to a charity, what would that charity be and why? |
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| Thich Nhat Hahn's Plum Village - he has a powerful and personally impactful form of the dharma that needs to grow in the world. |
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| If you weren't on the professional services career track, what would you be doing? |
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| Teaching Russian Literature to young adults in a third tier college somewhere in Iowa... |
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| What is the path that led you to Professional Services/Consulting? |
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| Happened into it after graduate school - was the highest paying career path available. At the time I was only in it for the money. I've stayed because it fulfills a basic need - to serve others. |
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| What advice would you give to a recent graduate who just took a job in professional services? |
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| Under promise, over deliver and make sure the client is happy (happy client happy partner.) Lighten up, focus on relationships and not day to day deliverables and be sure to pick the hotel with a decent gym - use it! |
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