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Seven Steps to Start a Consulting Business

Chart Your Course

According to MBO Partners, a support service for independent consultants, boomers are a fast growing sector of the independent workforce. In its 2012 Independent Workforce Index, MBO Partners estimates that boomers account for around a third of all independent consultants. Will they retire, work part-time or start new endeavors?

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Guest Blogger George L. Morrisey: Are You Ready for Strategic Planning?

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A pioneer in the process known as Management By Objectives (MBO), he wrote the first how-to book on MBO for managers in 1970. This overview serves as the primary communication vehicle to those inside and outside the organiza­tion who have an interest in knowing what the future looks like for your organization.

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Your Company Needs Independent Workers

Harvard Business Review

trillion, or 2%, to global GDP and increase employment by 72 million full-time-equivalent positions by 2025. The MBO Partners 2015 State of Independence workforce study found that 6.4 Our own research reinforces these findings.