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Why Companies Hire an External Consultant to Help Them

Strategy Driven

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. External consultants are very helpful agents of change.

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Writing a Rejection Letter (with Samples)

Harvard Business Review

For example: [Their name], Thanks for your patience while I reviewed this proposal. We’ve published a lot on cybersecurity lately, and unfortunately the proposed piece overlaps a bit too much with other articles we’ve published. Thanks again for taking the time to put this proposal together for us. Offer hope.

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Make Your Innovative Idea Seem Less Terrifying

Harvard Business Review

Rarely have I had that kind of immediate trust and social currency when proposing something new. She loved her job, and with a background in public affairs in communications had been successful in both international business and management roles. How I wish that all my ideas received this kind of reception!

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Is Economics Ready for a New Model?

Harvard Business Review

You can find lots of scholars at top economics departments who study why bubbles and crashes happen, and how psychology and genetics shape individual decisionmaking. And economists are dubious of his proposals for massive agent-based computer models of the economy. The other big idea in the 1988 article was chaos theory.