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Jackie Prendergast Articles

Jackie Prendergast is a dynamic and focused HR and business professional with over 15 years experience in both public and private sector environments. She is a firm believer in the concept of delivering excellence through, and with people and strongly supports an ethos of continuous learning and development in the achievement of goals. Jackie established her own HR & Management Consulting practice - Consulting Excellence - in 2007. Working primarily with SMEs and private clients Jackie provides a range of HR advice, support and services. She has written a number of articles on C.V. preparation and Interview Skills as well as a short Interview Guide (E-book).
She is also a business mentor with Dublin City Enterprise Board’s Mentor Panel. In addition Jackie runs an online network for SMEs (and consultants / service providers operating in that space) on LinkedIn - SME Links Ireland.

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Latest Articles

Management

Middle Child at Work?

Jackie Prendergast July 15, 2010

Inspiration overload?

Jackie Prendergast March 17, 2010

Forget recession proofing, it is time for recovery proofing! 8 strategies to help get you and your people ready

Jackie Prendergast February 17, 2010

Recruitment – 10 Key Steps To Getting The Right Person, First Time!

Jackie Prendergast January 26, 2010
Business

Business planning – is it just a paper exercise?

Jackie Prendergast January 9, 2010
Management

“There is nothing as queer as folk” – Small business and team dynamics

Jackie Prendergast December 3, 2009
Management

An interviewer’s perspective: where does it all go wrong?

Jackie Prendergast December 1, 2009

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Patagonia closed its headquarters and all 29 of its U.S. stores on Election Day 2016 and paid every one of its roughly 2,000 employees for the day off — then closed the company for every general election that followed, co-founded a coalition that now spans more than 2,000 employers, and in 2024 moved the closure to early-voting day

Tweak Your Biz Editorial Team June 24, 2026
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Costco enforces a $1.50 hot dog and soda combo price set in 1985 — when then-CEO Craig Jelinek once suggested raising it, co-founder Jim Sinegal reportedly told him he would personally kill him if the price changed, and the chain absorbs the loss as a customer loyalty cost across more than 900 warehouses worldwide

Tweak Your Biz Editorial Team June 24, 2026
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When Nintendo released the Game Boy in April 1989 with a monochrome screen against the color Sega Game Gear and Atari Lynx, designer Gunpei Yokoi argued the lower-resolution display would give players 30 hours of battery life on four AAs versus six hours for competitors — the Game Boy went on to outsell both rivals combined by roughly eight to one

Tweak Your Biz Editorial Team June 24, 2026

In 1982, Johnson & Johnson pulled 31 million bottles of Tylenol from shelves at a cost of $100 million after seven Chicago-area deaths from cyanide-laced capsules — the company’s decision to recall before regulators required it became the template every business school still teaches for crisis response

Tweak Your Biz Editorial Team June 24, 2026
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