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Business Book Review: Lords of Strategy

Management Consulted

We’re starting a series of guest posts offered by staff, readers and interns that are reviews of books we think are helpful for those interested in consulting (specifically) and business (in general). If you want to submit a review on a book you’ve been reading, follow the same format, target 600+ words and send it over by email!

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Fireside Chat – Consulting Recruiting at Target and Non-Target Universities

Tom Spencer

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with another blog contributor to the SpencerTom community, Jason Oh, to share our experiences about the consulting recruiting process. How is recruiting done at your school? Jeff : There are many advantages of campus recruiting at a target school.

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How to build an effective recruitment process

Asamby Consulting

Asamby uses a process derived from the book “Who - The A method of Hiring”, that we adapted for small business. When we work on clients’ recruitment processes, we strive to create a team of "A players'' for our clients to scale and optimize their business.

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Business Book Review: The McKinsey Way

Management Consulted

Today, we continue our series of book reviews with a look at The McKinsey Way , a book written by a former Associate at McKinsey, Ethan M. Although the book is fun and well structured, the book skims the surface on a wide variety of topics and doesn’t go into great detail. 3 interesting book insights.

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As a Solopreneur, Don’t be #OpenToWork on LinkedIn. Do this instead!

Successful Independent Consulting

The feature was created to help job-seekers be found by corporate recruiters for full-time positions, not for contract work, interim positions, or fractional roles. For other tips about pricing, I recommend the book “ Name Your Price ” and PICA’s workshop listed below.) For pricing, select Contact for pricing.

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Maximize Employee Retention by Mentoring “Spirited Patriots”

Rick Conlow

As a result, managers and companies are desperate to recruit and retain employees. That means redefine the lifecycle of an employee in your organization from recruiting to retiring. By the way, any manager can, regardless of company strategy, do this in his or her department or team. After all, nobody is doing the job for free.

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Is Peter Mandelson really a strategy consultant?

Tom Spencer

But the House is rather an unworldly place and its members and staff may not know what a recognized, professional strategy consultant is expected to do. Formulating strategies. Implementing strategies. A genuine strategy consultant will provide advice to clients on at least the first four steps of this process.

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