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Quote Your Consulting Billing Rate with Confidence

Successful Independent Consulting

There are other ways to bill for your talent and expertise but those will be covered in another article. Benchmark so you know your rate is reasonable. Of course, I would have loved to get paid at the higher end of the scale, but clients like to think they are getting a good deal. There are lots of ways to do this.

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Archstone Consulting Culture and Interview Tips

Management Consulted

Founded in 2003 by two former Deloitte partners, Archstone Consulting specializes in helping companies eliminate operational inefficiencies, cut costs and invest resulting savings back in to the growth of the firm. The practice areas at Archstone Consulting reflect the operational nature of consulting projects at the firm: Business Strategy.

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Don’t Get Testy with Salespeople

Henman Performance Executive

Certainly, the battery of tests I use would determine if a given sales professional has some of the requisite personality traits for success: high achievement drive, a willingness to overcome obstacles, a competitive attitude, an ability to bounce back from disappointment, and the talent for “reading” people and situations.

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Private Equity’s New Phase

Harvard Business

a condo development, apartment building, or golf course). In phase three, PE firms are not simply holding companies waiting to dispose of the property, nor are they operating companies seeking to integrate their acquisitions into an existing business. Doing so will require PE firms themselves to add new capabilities and new talent.

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Welcome All Future Management Consultants – Favorite Posts, Link Roundup, and Reader Questions

Management Consulted

From Steve Shu’s blog – a crash course reading list for new consultants. In corporate strategy, you’ll have a thinner talent pool. There are exceptions, of course – but travel should be no more than 25% of your day-to-day unlike management consulting travel. Original source here. A few reader questions.

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Identifying Leaders Who Could Bypass the Typical Promotion Path

Harvard Business

Today, companies must correct course fast, fend off insurgent competitors, and have an intense customer focus. This trend has key implications for talent management. He had a close connection to evolving customers, shrewd instincts about how the market was developing, and a keen sense of the disruption that was needed in the region.

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When It Pays to Collaborate with Competitors at Work

Harvard Business

Of course, this approach has its flaws: it can cause people to self-promote, burn out, focus on individual performance at the expense of unit performance, and even deliberately undermine their peers. Dan helped improve this design, sharing a concept that his operations center used to secure other types of equipment for easy movement.