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Consulting as a Contractor: The Rise of Self-Employment

Tom Spencer

In 2017, Warton published an article that highlighted the rise of contractual workers in both the private and public sectors. They also need to manage their own training, resource development, and financing. Contractors need to be highly disciplined, organised, and have excellent time management skills.

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Drones Help New Industries Take Flight

Tom Spencer

This was beneficial as coal has a material value for RWE’s business, and using a drone allowed PwC to audit the resource much more efficiently without compromising the quality of the audit. Fortune (2017). The drone measured the volume of RWE’s coal reserves, which allowed PwC’s auditors to calculate its value. Image: Vogel.

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Why Preventing Disruption in 2017 Is Harder Than It Was When Christensen Coined the Term

Harvard Business

Asset-light businesses are not financed with debt. They’re financed with equity—in other words, a stake in the company. That’s a resource that is much less expensive for new businesses with no track record than for established businesses with all the credibility in the world.

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Self-Employed? Prep for Tax Season to Save Big

Successful Independent Consulting

Other useful resources are from the IRS, “ Deducting Business Expenses ” and “ Publication 535 (2016), Business Expenses.” I also recommend, “ The Best Retirement Plans for the Self-Employed ” by Kerry Hannon , a nationally recognized expert on career transitions, personal finance, and retirement. author of the book Deduct It!

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11 Best Consulting Blogs: Read These Blogs To Grow Your Consultancy

Tsavo Neal

Consulting Success has over 900 articles and resources to help consultants grow their business and increase their fees. ” Must read articles from Professional Services Marketing Today: 2017 High Growth Study – Research Summary. Join over 23,000 consultants who read the consulting newsletter here: consultingsuccess.com.

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Rethinking How Medicaid Patients Receive Care

Harvard Business

Critics outside of CareMore issued an ugly forecast: Our resource-intensive approach to care would never survive on Medicaid’s meager reimbursement levels. As a result of our collaborative behavioral-health model, over 75% of patients who saw CareMore’s behavioral health team in Iowa in 2017 also saw our primary care team.

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Aerial Photos Tell a Story About Which Cities Are Embracing Clean Energy

Harvard Business

The draw on our shared resources is incredibly hard to picture, but we must try. We’ll need a new kind of economy, a circular one that radically reduces our draw on natural resources and, in particular, is powered by clean energy. Sept 28, 2017, from high above Newark Liberty International Airport. Photo by Andrew Winston.

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