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David and Goliath: How Boutique Firms Triumph

Tom Spencer

It also allows for the most current, up-to-date advice, as the culture is more collaborative. Competitive Pricing Boutique firms often lack the traditional overhead and operational costs plaguing larger firms, which allows them to offer clients more competitive pricing.

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3 Steps to Cultivate an Innovation Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

Culture is the one thing that impacts everything. An innovation culture supports beliefs and feelings about the importance of innovation, as well as habits that encourage research and development. Here are three proven steps that will move your company closer toward an innovation culture.

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Why an Innovation Culture Matters

Organizational Talent Consulting

The financial and operational rewards for innovation are significant. Innovation doesn't just happen in the workplace without a supportive culture. Company culture is the one thing that influences everything in the workplace. improved operational productivity. Culture change should be approached with purpose and caution.

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An Ex-Consultant’s Jump into the Start Up World

Management Consulted

He co-founded MobileSuites, an app that puts travel concierge services and hotel information at your fingertips, and which you can (and should) find and sign-up for here. I ended up traveling on a few projects with my friend Basel, an analyst who started the same day that I did. I wasn’t really sure. Absolutely.

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The Hidden Benefits of Short-Term Business Travel

Harvard Business

As we move from one hotel chain to another and order the same Starbucks drink in London that we do in Shanghai or Tokyo, it can feel like just another business trip as opposed to a personally meaningful cross-cultural adventure. First, traveling abroad can build your confidence. Managing Across Cultures. Pamela Hinds.

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Unspoken truths of top-tier consulting: things every consultant knows, but no one says 

Tom Spencer

When you first start consulting, it can seem like a sort of corporate utopia: interesting work, a new client every few months, access to leaders of industry, great colleagues, endless career development and training, generous dinner budgets, extensive travel, nice hotels, international travel.

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Leading Across Cultures Requires Flexibility and Curiosity

Harvard Business

How many nights have you spent in a hotel in a city many miles from home? Even without speaking the local language, you can learn a huge amount about a country’s culture from tuning into local television shows, especially comedy programs. And being able to tune into a culture and work with different world views stood out.

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