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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. Because an external consultant has not worked in the organization for some time, they are limited by the natural resistance to change that many people have. External consultants are very helpful agents of change.

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Stop People from Wasting Your Time

Harvard Business Review

Meetings are also dangerous when their list of invitees has been wantonly constructed, filled with irrelevant people and lacking decisionmakers with the authority to get things moving. Make sure you understand who the real decisionmakers are, and don’t waste your time (or other people’s) until they can be present and participate.

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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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Writing a Rejection Letter (with Samples)

Harvard Business Review

While I enjoyed our conversation, I think we need someone with more hands-on project management experience for this role. At this point, our organization really needs someone with more project management experience. ” Resist that temptation. I hope you find the right job for you in the near future. Your name].

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