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0710 | Writing the Org Chart in Pencil with Liann Eden

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Liann Eden is the co-founder of Eden McCallum, a consultant firm with no consultants. Using an innovative organizational design, Eden is able to bring the brightest consultants to client projects by forming bespoke teams. In this interview, we talk about how the model developed and why writing the org chart in pencil is the way of the future.

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What Happens When All Employees Work When They Feel Like It

Harvard Business Review

The management consulting firm Eden McCallum, from London, does strategy work much like McKinsey, the Boston Consulting Group, and Bain – but with one important exception: none of its roughly 500 consultants are on the payroll. Eden and McCallum’s idea was: Come work for us! Is Eden McCallum the ideal employer for everyone?

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Morning Advantage: Take My CFO, Please

Harvard Business Review

At first blush, it sounds like something straight out of the mind of Scott Adams, but John McCallum's guide to management one-liners in the Ivey Business Journal has its sincere merits.

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What So Many Strategists Get Wrong About Digital Disruption

Harvard Business Review

A company that understood this well is Eden McCallum. Eden McCallum shows that not all disruption need to be digital. In consulting work, the ability to read each other’s emotions, intentions, and personalities is paramount, not only in terms of how consultants work with clients, but also for who gets matched with whom.

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All For One: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

All For One: 10 Strategies for Building Trusted Client Partnerships Andrew Sobel John Wiley & Sons (2009) “Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno” Those who have read the novel, Three Musketeers, already know that its author, Alexander Dumas pere, took advantage of every appropriate opportunity to have his principal characters (d’Artagnan (..)

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Revenge of the HourlyNerds

Harvard Business Review

Eden McCallum , for example, is a U.K. Both firms have been very successful and are competing more and more with the incumbent consulting firms; Eden McCallum boasts a client list that includes the likes of Tesco, GSK and Lloyd’s. While HourlyNerd is making a lot of headlines today, it’s not necessarily a new idea.