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How to Succeed as a Management Consultant

The Consultants Peer Group

Yesterday I was a presenter on a national Zoom ‘webinar’ on the ‘High Cost of Ethics Lapses’ in the management consulting profession. They are ugly and unfortunately define the costs associated with inappropriate behavior in consulting, which not only damages their reputations but smears all consultants.

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Consultant Profile Series: Dane Sequeira

Tom Spencer

Dane Sequeira was an advanced professional degree consultant at the Boston Consulting Group. in Mechanical Engineering, studying under Dr. Brian Mann. What got you interested in the path to consulting? It is up to the consultant to ask the most appropriate questions to find out what the client needs to know.

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Personal Ethics -- in Consulting Offers and in Business

CaseInterview.com

My Reply: There is no right answer for everyone and depends on your personal sense of ethics. While the consulting community is small, it's not that small -- so word will probably not spread to other firms. But , there will be one person out there in the world who considers you at worst dishonest, at best lacking ethics.

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Recruiters You Should Meet to Staff for Success

Harmonious Workplaces

These professionals stand out as some of the best I’ve met in the biz When I worked as an executive or a consultant advising C-suite leaders and business owners, many of them complained about their inability to attract and recruit talent. So, why take on these or other risks if a recruiter can help mitigate these issues?

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What You Can Do to Improve Ethics at Your Company

Harvard Business

It’s hard for good, ethical people to imagine how these meltdowns could possibly happen. But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? Wells Fargo. Volkswagen. and the U.K.,

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Is Your Company as Ethical as It Seems?

Harvard Business

When you submit a tender to the foreign government, they advise you that there is little likelihood of winning the contract unless you hire a consultant of their choosing. The onus for ethical behavior falls first to the employee. Most companies talk a good ethics game and even make their goals public. Who gets promoted?

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Is AI Technology on the Verge of Displacing Humans?

Effective Managers

Rather than serve up a list of available information sources, as do search engines, it uses deep machine learning to predict, based on your question, the most likely responses to that question. Similarly, lawyers and management consultants must use their expertise and judgement to identify and solve complex problems. Human Capability.

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