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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. Change Management. They can identify the need for change, manage the change program or support the change. 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.

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Twitter Weekly Highlights for 2011-03-18

Tanveer Naseer

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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. None of them brought economic devastation in the U.S. I know I believed it.

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Take the Bias Out of Strategy Decisions

Harvard Business Review

When top management had emotional difficulty deciding to abandon memory chips, microprocessors were automatically receiving more production capacity anyway, because middle managers sturdily followed the rule that they had been given before. Tap into the wisdom of your crowd. The answer was clear: Get out of DRAMs.

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Make Your Innovative Idea Seem Less Terrifying

Harvard Business Review

Much as I want to believe that a glaringly good idea will stand on its merits, I have come to realize that just like any product or service, ideas require good marketing if they’re going to reach their intended customers. She also believed that Sanofi’s competitive edge was at risk because of this narrow approach to talent management.