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Consulting as a Contractor: The Rise of Self-Employment

Tom Spencer

He discovered that working independently allowed him to identify gaps within the strategy consulting industry that he easily would have missed if he had been working as a employee. Contractors need to be highly disciplined, organised, and have excellent time management skills.

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Due Diligence by Management Consulting Firms

Tom Spencer

These are outsourced by PE firms or corporate acquirers to a specialist adviser: lawyers for legal issues, accountants for auditing, and investment bankers for carrying out due diligence from a financing perspective. Table 1 – Framework for validating an M&A deal from a strategic and operational perspective. Image: Pexels.

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

Harvard Business

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. You can verbally communicate this with your team, role model it, and create organizational operating principles around it.