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Why Companies Hire an External Consultant to Help Them

Strategy Driven

The consulting market across the world is valued at 262 billion dollars. Specialized skills are expensive to develop in-house and you might only need them occasionally. This means they develop a network of connections. Vested interests and personal power plays may at best limit thinking. Expert Advice. Independent Party.

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Twitter Weekly Highlights for 2011-03-18

Tanveer Naseer

Here’s a compliation of some of the articles/tweets I shared on Twitter this week: Leaders, Are You Developing Your Employee’s Super Powers? Brand # marketing in social media – Coffee House # Book Review: “Wikibrands&# [link] #. link] # leadership #. RT @ mikehenrysr : Consider yourself a “Thought Leader&# ?

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Is Economics Ready for a New Model?

Harvard Business Review

In the sense that financial markets and the economy in general are far more fragile than most mainstream economists contemplated before 2008, there was a bit of unlearning done in the 1990s and early 2000s. The 1987 stock market crash was a scare. Summers, meanwhile, is the second most powerful economic official in the U.S.