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Consultants: Resistance Is Futile

N2Growth Blog

You also remember the Consultants. As a consumer of consulting services for more years than I care to admit, I have developed a well defined view of a typical engagement. To illustrate the viewpoint of a consumer of consulting services, I want to present a satirical view of a typical engagement. Part 1: The Evil Empire.

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Management and leadership in local government report

Chartered Management Institute

Leadership in Local Government CMI has partnered with the Social Market Foundation to explore the role that quality leadership and management can play in improving local government effectiveness. The strategy needs to include a funding increase for councils to improve recruitment and retention of staff across all levels.

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How to Write a Dissertation Proposal

Strategy Driven

A dissertation proposal is a stepping stone towards drafting the final dissertation essay. The primary goal of a proposal paper is to exhibit how your dissertation research will supplement value to the existing knowledge in your fields of study to your academic supervisors. Nonetheless, the contents and structure do not vary.

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Why Companies Hire an External Consultant to Help Them

Strategy Driven

Many companies hire consultants but how widespread is the practice? The consulting market across the world is valued at 262 billion dollars. Are you trying to figure out why companies hire an external consultant? Read on to learn how consulting professionals can help your business. Time to draft in an external consultant.

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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

Nadella proposed that Microsoft move beyond its most profitable product, Windows, in favor of chasing a cloud dream, even though Amazon had a four-year head start. He quickly pivoted Microsoft from being a company that sold boxed software to a global computing engine that rents out its processing power and online storage to businesses.

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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Tangential Opportunity

N2Growth Blog

This series’s final part will balance needs with compromises, float tangential opportunities to expand horizons, and extricate from myopia on that elusive ‘unicorn’ management candidate. You will find it difficult to move between functional management roles. A search partner with industry knowledge is critical.

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Trust Is Key For Performance Management When Working Remotely

The Horizons Tracker

New research from Lynda Gratton’s consultancy firm HSM highlights how important it is for this new world of work to be viewed as just and equitable. It sees the legal, social, and business literature assessed to try and propose a new model that fairly compensates us for any work we do outside of traditional hours.