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Consulting as a Contractor: The Rise of Self-Employment

Tom Spencer

Business organisations and management consultants have long had a contractual rather than an employer/employee relationship. Consultants are one example of these contractual workers in the sense that consulting firms are legally bound by a contractual agreement to their respective client. The bottom line.

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Consultant Ninja: Signs of Crunch Time: Management Consulting Blog

Consultant Ninja

Consultant Ninja. Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Signs of Crunch Time. priorities: work, call wife, sleep, eat, in decreasing order] Project Manager irritability rising. Consulting. (88).

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Before Day 1: Taking Advantage of the In-Between

Tom Spencer

You successfully interviewed for a position at your dream consulting firm, and you have received and accepted an offer. Whatever the case may be, you might find yourself with some time before you begin consulting. This article is not discouraging taking some necessary time off to rest, relax, and recuperate. You did it!

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Freelance programming

QEmploy

In some countries, minimal wage rates are decided by government and it is illegal to pay salary below that wage rate. Read More: Pros and Cons of a Consulting Career. Why Consulting?] . As a tech freelancer you need to shine in various skills with expertise as mentioned above in the article in regards to earn very good amount.

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Make Sure Your Employees Have Enough Interesting Work to Do

Harvard Business

Is it a problem of time management? Take for example the case of my recent client, an engineering consulting company I’ll call Astride. And there was a lot of improvement possible in terms of managing the workload across and between the offices. Its focus is rather on large corporate and government work.

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Leadership Lessons from the Cat - Henman Performance

Henman Performance Executive

Cats excel at time management. Advice for Consultants. Corporate Governance. Crisis Management. Talent Management. Taking nothing away from our canine advisors, I’d like to add a word on behalf of the cat. When it comes to business, we could do worse than to learn some lessons from our feline friends: 1.