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Consulting in South Africa – what to expect

Tom Spencer

Consultants in the rainbow nation have continued to operate efficiently and effectively during the Covid pandemic. They are temporary responses to the pandemic, rather than trends that will become part of normal operations after the COVID pandemic comes to an end. BCG, McKinsey, Bain, A.T.

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Minimum Efficient Scale

CaseInterview.com

Today, I want to introduce you to (or perhaps remind you of) the concept of the minimum efficient scale. It is the notion that, as a company gets bigger, it is able to achieve cost savings through its “scale” or the size of its operations. The concept of “minimum efficient scale” is less well known and is a less-used term.

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Help Your Team Achieve Work-Life Balance — Even When You Can’t

Harvard Business

While there will still be high-stakes, time-sensitive issues like beating a competitor to market with a new product, acknowledge that endurance is the goal, and speed is not the best or only metric of long-term success. You can verbally communicate this with your team, role model it, and create organizational operating principles around it.