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Don’t do everything yourself

Jacq Hackett Consulting

It’s quick – the turnaround time on jobs is impressive. There’s a wealth of choice – Upwork has everything from web designers, admin assistants, writers of every kind, marketing experts, social media experts, through to accountants and legal advisors. . You could post your logo design project today and have it delivered by tomorrow.

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How does your consulting business stack up? Take our 16th Annual WIC Best Practices Survey (open March 14-April 7) and find out.

Women in Consulting

Over the years, it’s offered useful insights into the evolution of Bay Area consulting businesses, such as billing and marketing tool trends, consulting expertise and specialties, structure and operations. Total profit for 2017. This is the 16th year for WIC’s best practices survey. Results are aggregated and summarized.

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Don’t do everything yourself

Jacq Hackett Consulting

It’s quick – the turnaround time on jobs is impressive. There’s a wealth of choice – Upwork has everything from web designers, admin assistants, writers of every kind, marketing experts, social media experts, through to accountants and legal advisors. . You could post your logo design project today and have it delivered by tomorrow.

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GE’s Fall Has Been Accelerated by Two Problems. Most Other Big Companies Face Them, Too.

Harvard Business

Trian announced that with its help, GE could look forward to a stock price in the $40–$50 range by 2017, and threatened a proxy battle unless GE put Trian cofounder Ed Garten on the board. In June 2017 longtime CEO Jeff Immelt resigned under unrelenting Trian and shareholder pressure, and John Flannery took over as CEO.

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Buying a Business in a Competitive Marketplace, how to Separate Yourself from the Pack?

Martinka Consulting

John Martinka, as one of Seattle’s most successful, knowledgeable, & experienced buyer’s brokers, and I, as the President of IBA, the Pacific Northwest’s oldest business brokerage firm, have collaboratively completed a significant number of transactions involving the purchase & sale of privately held companies, including one already in 2017.

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How Volvo Reinvented Itself Through Hiring

Harvard Business

Volvo’s turnaround over the last decade offers a great example. Its cars didn’t match up well with those of top luxury brands like Mercedes, BMW, and Audi, yet the company lacked the capacity to compete with mass-market leaders like Toyota and GM. For years, Volvo was a brand stuck between a rock and a hard place.

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What to Do When You’re Returning to a Company You Used to Work For

Harvard Business

The increasing acceptance of boomerang employees is partly due to the “tight job market,” according to Michael Watkins, chair of Genesis Advisers , professor at IMD , and author of The First 90 Days. After she left, Bridget worked in several other marketing firms. What the Experts Say. ” Pace yourself. And she did.

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