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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! All of them work on a freelance basis.

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What So Many Strategists Get Wrong About Digital Disruption

Harvard Business Review

As a firm, McKinsey finds consulting projects and then matches them with people they have recruited and trained. A company that understood this well is Eden McCallum. Eden McCallum shows that not all disruption need to be digital. It has been a stable and quite homogeneous industry for many decades.

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Revenge of the HourlyNerds

Harvard Business Review

Eden McCallum , for example, is a U.K. based consulting firm started by a pair of McKinsey alumni. 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.