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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. That can be difficult to do, de-motivating for your existing people and bad for your reputation as an employer. This means they develop a network of connections.

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Leadership Is About to Get More Uncomfortable

Harvard Business Review

Employees used to know just your name, your face, your business reputation. And along with this increased transparency, you’re held accountable for areas you know less about: new technologies, new markets, new cultures and geographies representing new stakeholders. Leadership Managing people Personal effectiveness'

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Without Steve Jobs, Can Apple Stay Powerful?

Harvard Business Review

Apple has been tremendously successful and now ranks as one of the most valuable companies in technology — and for that matter, in the stock market overall. The next lesson to be learned is that power can come through the projection of an image of strength that may not yet be the reality. Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D.

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