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The Lockdown Unlocks Real Work

Markovitz Consulting

Recent research from the Boston Consulting Group confirms that employees can do better work when they’re liberated from much of the bureaucratic cruft that passes for daily management. Peter Drucker once quipped that, “Much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work.”

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Top 10 Consulting Firms in the Middle East

Management Consulted

We’re continuing our Top 10 Consulting Firms series this week by focusing our expert eye on the Middle East. Ask any consultant about the Middle East, and Booz (now Strategy&) will be the first name on their lips! Currently, Strategy& does major public (read: government) consulting work outside the U.S.

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Business Book Review: Boston Consulting Group On Strategy

Management Consulted

Welcome to yet another opportunity to gain valuable insights from a book review, written by Preeti Vemu, MC intern, MC events organizer extraordinary, and an ex-Deloitte consultant. Every section of Boston Consulting Group on Strategy is a comprehensive article offering insights that can be applied to any business circumstance.

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(Re)Designing the HR Organization (Kates, Human Resource Planning, 2006)

Kates Kesler

Human Resource Planning, 2006. The goal has been to create an organization that can deliver the necessary, daily (but low value-added) transactional work of HR consistently and efficiently while at the same time undertaking complex consulting and project-based work that is intended to further strategic business initiatives.

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Thinking Like a Consultant – Communicating Core Values

Management Consulted

Welcome to the next installment of our “Thinking Like a Consultant” series, where we are exploring thoughts, behaviors and mindsets of successful consultants. Why, as a consulting candidate, should you care – and when does the first impression really happen? In the interview? In the lobby?

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A Commercial Pilot’s 2-Year Plan to Break into Consulting

Management Consulted

Beau approached us a few months ago to ask about breaking into consulting. He had the epiphany that consulting was his calling in life, and went searching for details – finding MC in the process. We’ve got your resume to go through, and as I gather you have a whole bunch of questions about consulting. Is that right?

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Manage time using Business Process Re-engineering (BPR)

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: Manage time using Business Process Re-engineering (BPR). This article was published in Leadership Excellence in 2006. The post Manage time using Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) appeared first on Consultants' Consultant. Five principles of re-engineering your […].