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Figuring Out Your Billing Rate as an Independent Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

Most consultants tend to use an hourly rate anyway, because it’s the easiest to figure out, there’s less risk of undercharging, and it’s what most clients are used to. Or did you learn on the job as an internal resource with a company, and if so, did you have access to formal training?

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Consulting for Retailers Seeking Improvement

Business Consulting Agency

This is where Retail Consulting Services step in as invaluable partners, offering business and industry expertise to drive transformative growth. Explore how retail companies can collaborate with retail experts through consulting services to achieve significant improvements and sustainable success.

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Five Ways to Raise your Game in Consulting

The Consultants Peer Group

Over a short two-day span several consulting related articles caught my attention. First, Confessions of a Whistleblower by Garrison Lovely highlighted several cultural problems at the consulting firm, McKinsey. Lovely has since left McKinsey. First, the obvious, they are about my profession, management consulting.

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How To Sustain Change: Keeping The Momentum Going After The Training Ends

Nash Consulting

Mastering Post-Training Sustainability: Strategies to Maintain Organizational Change By Nash Consulting Successfully planning and implementing robust training in an organization isn’t a small feat. The conclusion of the training can feel like a major victory lap. How does this training connect to the overall change?

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Royal Air Force officer nails London McKinsey interview

Management Consulted

Andy had failed a case interview with one firm but had a confirmed chance with McKinsey London, and he didn’t want to walk away without the offer. Just got off the phone with McKinsey and have been offered an Associate position!!!!!! It made my day when I got his email on the day of his final round: Hey Jenny, I hope all is well.

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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. The jokes persisted.

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Why Do Management Consulting Firms Hire MBAs?

Steve Shu Consulting

Prior to my current role, I spent many years in the traditional management consulting space. As I see it, the traditional segment of the management consulting industry values MBAs primarily because it facilitates a plug-and-play kind of model where people are interchangeable and can start working on a broad swathe of business problems.