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David and Goliath: How Boutique Firms Triumph

Tom Spencer

It also allows for the most current, up-to-date advice, as the culture is more collaborative. For example, they typically require consultants to travel to client sites for meetings and presentations, creating expenses related to airfare, hotels, and ground transportation.

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Staying Safe Is the Motto of the Day, Week, Month

Martinka Consulting

I do know the virus has a longer than normal life of being alive, spreads super-fast through our easily traveled and networked world, and that’s what’s concerning people So, let’s cover what it’s doing to people like you and me, i.e. business owners and executives. But what about small businesses, that I really feel for?

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Five trends of future working

SkillQuo

Start-ups, small businesses, and local organizations are not exempt. More enterprise level businesses will provide more opportunities for charity and community building to employees, versus just writing a big check to a cause. Diversity of thought, and diversity of race and cultures.

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Is Your Business Ready to be Sold?

Martinka Consulting

Know the best buyer for your business.” In my book I cover seven types: individuals (or partners), search funders, family or management team, other small business owners, larger (strategic), companies, private equity, and family offices. Know the number at which you’re willing to walk away (from the business).

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For Some Platforms, Network Effects Are No Match for Local Know-How

Harvard Business

For example, Uber and Grab link riders and drivers, Airbnb links hosts and travelers, and Amazon links shoppers and sellers. The spectacular growth of these businesses has been commonly explained by “network effects,” a common refrain among economists and academics. We understood that a lot of people really use cash.

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You Can Be a Great Leader and Also Have a Life

Harvard Business

She formed a group of about two dozen men and women in senior management at law firms, public and financial service entities, small businesses, and Fortune 500 companies like Booz Allen Hamilton, Eli Lilly, Marriott, IBM, and Ford who wanted to challenge the notion that work-life balance is impossible for leaders. That was in 2008.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

“I am competitive in nature and always give the best in whatever I do and my passions include photography, travelling and embracing new cultures and languages. Consultants get to travel quite a lot and meet different kinds of people and this makes them diverse and enables them to have insights, which others can only strive for.