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How to Make Clients Comfortable that You (the Star) are Not on Their Project

David A Fields

If you’re known as the founder of your consulting practice (or one of the founders), you may feel your ability to scale your firm is limited because prospective clients want to work with a/the founder and there’s only so much of you to go around. You’re a victim of “It’s gotta be you” syndrome. Fields Consulting Group.

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Useful Software to Master Before Technical Consulting

Tom Spencer

If you are a STEM major looking to go into technical consulting, whether at a large generalist firm or a small boutique one, you will likely need to draw upon your knowledge of digital tools and skills. However, some of the specific technical software you might use in graduate school may not be the same ones used in consulting.

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Synergy Unleashed: The Power of Great Teamwork

Rick Conlow

We collaborated with other consulting firms to work with a global client that had intense competition and needed significant performance improvement. Can you relate to that? A great leader knows that employee synergy unleashes the power of great teamwork. Conversely, mediocre or bad bosses enable poor attitudes and destroy teamwork.

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Independent Consultants: Excellence Begins Here

Successful Independent Consulting

Have you ever dreamed about starting something and the idea just won’t go away? You give yourself all sorts of reasons not to pursue it. “I Now, you start thinking about all the reasons you should do it. As you talk yourself into it, the idea spawns scores of related ideas, and you can’t not do it.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

Last week we held an MC exclusive subscriber giveaway contest – entrants told us in 200 words or less how they became interested in consulting. The prize for best answer was a FREE Consulting Case Bank and The Consulting Bible 3rd edition – a HUGE giveaway – so we weren’t surprised when we heard from so many of you.

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From the Bench and Bedside to the Boardrooms (How to transition from academia into consulting, Part 2 of 2)

Tom Spencer

As a former advanced degree candidate who applied to consulting while finishing medical school, I would like to share my experience with those of you who are in the middle of making a similar jump out of academia. You can also ask questions and look for case practice partners by posting in the community forum of this website.

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How to Retain and Engage Your B Players

Harvard Business

But not only do the criteria for being an A player vary significantly by company, it’s unrealistic to think you can work only with A players. As I’ve seen in companies of all sizes and industries, stars often struggle to adapt to the culture, and may not collaborate well with colleagues. You and Your Team Series.

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