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For Independent Consultants, Business Development = Relationship Development

Successful Independent Consulting

The biggest stressor for self-employed management consultants is business development: how to cultivate meaningful regular work. Instead of thinking of how companies or consulting firms typically handle business development, use an approach more like how we work as individuals and soloprenuers. It’s vexing for a variety of reasons.

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Research = Opportunity! 8 Lessons From the Some of the World’s Biggest Sports Brands…

Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

In the last 18 months working with some of the world’s biggest sports brands, I’ve done research that has taught me the importance of market research to build strong brands and grow sales. Sports teams have some of the best brand codes around. My favorite mug…do you know the team? I bet you might?! You codify everything.

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Your Career Sweet Spot

CaseInterview.com

In sports like tennis, golf, and baseball, there’s the concept of a “sweet spot.” ” These sports involve swinging a racquet, club, or bat at a ball. If you’ve ever played any of these sports, you know what I’m talking about. You may get odd vibrations that travel down the device into your arms.

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Your Career Sweet Spot

CaseInterview.com

In sports like tennis, golf, and baseball, there’s the concept of a “sweet spot.” ” These sports involve swinging a racquet, club, or bat at a ball. If you’ve ever played any of these sports you know what I’m talking about. You may get odd vibrations that travel down the device into your arms.

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Importance of Developing Soft Skills in Consulting

Tom Spencer

What skills do I need to develop? Luckily, the answers that I received from countless individuals at various levels of seniority at the firm were the same: focus on developing your soft skillset. His free moments are spent traveling and enjoying sporting events with his wife and daughter. Image: Pexels.

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The Paths of Consultancy

Tom Spencer

Daryl Morey took the path less travelled, the path that began with academia and consultancy. This is because consultancy is an open-ended field, and develops very transferable skills like communication, leadership, and strategic thinking. But he knew that he wanted to be involved in the sport. And that’s just the a’s.

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AlixPartners Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Here’s a list of notable AlixPartners alumni (okay, none of them are brand-name or famous but all are impressive) include: Reid MacInnes Cuming – Founder – Platform Development LLC. Even for such a high travel firm, which we’ll discuss below, they all seem to be so gosh darn chummy with each other. Financial Services.