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Consultant, Contractor, Freelancer - Labels Matter!

Successful Independent Consulting

If you were a hotel chain, would you be a Motel 6, Courtyard by Marriott, or a Ritz-Carlton? Consultants are senior-level people, well-versed in the art and science of the domain in which we consult, be that change leadership or system architecture. If you refer to yourself as a freelancer or consultant, what does that imply?

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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

L&D, goal-setting theory of motivation, and leadership training took shape during those five years with the band. In 1997, Jim promoted me from CSR (customer service representative) to assistant manager of Blockbuster within a few months just prior to my graduation from college. That’s a lot of bending!

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KPMG Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Business Process Management. Change Management. Richard Solomons – Chief Executive of InterContinental Hotels Group. More accolades include: Association of Management Consulting Firms – Excellence in Consulting: Corporate Responsibility/Humanitarian (2014). Supply Chain and Operations. Other Operations.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

Long before becoming CEO, in 2016, he was searching for new growth in the hypercompetitive travel reservations market, coming across a pair of small European startups with a business model opposite to Priceline’s in two key ways: Instead of taking an up-front 25% commission on a hotel reservation, the startups charged only 15% after check-out.