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Attention Aspiring Business Consultants – Consider QuickStart, Two Days of Learning to Help You Jump Start your Consulting Practice

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So, you want to be a consultant?! Or, take your consulting practice to a higher level? You might want to learn the basics, and make some new relationships; even mentoring relationships — with some accomplished professionals who know something about succeeding in this consulting business.

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“What if I cannot afford a consultant?

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Not a weekday goes by that someone doesn’t tell me, “I can’t afford a consultant” or “Our Company can’t afford a consultant.” ” That may well be true. However, fortunately, there is no shortage of information, insights, and advice available and won’t cost much, if anything.

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Consultant Workshop: The Sales Rollercoaster – a needed workshop led by Tom Niesen of Acuity Systems

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This is a post for all the people who “work alone” – you know, independent contractors, independent consultants, people like…me. Well,… Read More Consultant Workshop: The Sales Rollercoaster – a needed workshop led by Tom Niesen of Acuity Systems. We always have two struggles. One, to get our work done. What do we do?

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Dan Schneider (SIB Development and Consulting) in “The Corner Office”

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of SIB Development and Consulting. Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Dan Schneider, founder and C.E.O.

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Voice of Experience: Christie Smith (Deloitte Consulting LLP)

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Here is an excerpt from a profile of Christie Smith PhD (Principal and Northern Pacific Sector Leader for Life Sciences, Deloitte Consulting LLP) written by Melissa J. Anderson for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business.

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Aspiring Consultants, Check out “QuickStart” – Two days to Help you Jump Start (or, Re-Start) Your Consulting Practice

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What do you wish you knew how to do that you don’t know how to do? I don’t know about your list, but mine is long. There are so many things that I wish I knew how to do; or, at least, how to do better. I’ve decided to “hire it done” for some of […]. Randy''s blog entries'

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The State of Strategy Consulting, 2011

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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Walter Kiechel for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out other articles and resources, and/or sign up for a free subscription to Harvard Business Review’s Daily Alerts, please click here. * * * Like Satan in the book of Job, [.].