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What Happens When All Employees Work When They Feel Like It

Harvard Business Review

The management consulting firm Eden McCallum, from London, does strategy work much like McKinsey, the Boston Consulting Group, and Bain – but with one important exception: none of its roughly 500 consultants are on the payroll. Eden and McCallum’s idea was: Come work for us! Is Eden McCallum the ideal employer for everyone?

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Morning Advantage: Take My CFO, Please

Harvard Business Review

At first blush, it sounds like something straight out of the mind of Scott Adams, but John McCallum's guide to management one-liners in the Ivey Business Journal has its sincere merits. Preston has his doubts: cloudy online economics and the power of print in marketing make a digital-only future still seem somewhat suspect in the near term.

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What So Many Strategists Get Wrong About Digital Disruption

Harvard Business Review

Given these network effects – as many proclaim – markets get “winner takes all properties”: the largest network will win, crowding out the remaining competitors (like MySpace and Google+). It is a misconception to think that network effects inevitably and always lead to a winner-take-all market.

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Revenge of the HourlyNerds

Harvard Business Review

Eden McCallum , for example, is a U.K. Both firms have been very successful and are competing more and more with the incumbent consulting firms; Eden McCallum boasts a client list that includes the likes of Tesco, GSK and Lloyd’s. While HourlyNerd is making a lot of headlines today, it’s not necessarily a new idea.