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Why Companies Hire an External Consultant to Help Them

Strategy Driven

When you are making a proposal for a change or project it can sometimes be difficult to get a hearing from the decisionmakers in the company. It can also be helpful if other parties, such as a bank, want validation for a financial business plan. Sometimes, internal voices don’t have the credibility of external ones.

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Longrunonomics vs. Shortrunonomics

Harvard Business Review

To a certain extent they were right to do so: central banks can't forever trade off higher inflation for lower unemployment; you can't goose an economy forever with government deficits; high tax rates will seriously distort behavior and crimp growth over time.