First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Bob's blog entries "customer evangelists" Alexander Dumas pere All for One Andrew Sobel Aramis Athos “Unus pro omnibus [comma] omnes pro uno" Bain & Company "trusted client partnerships" Ben McConnell Citigroup's Global Corporate Bank Cognizant Eden McCallum Environmental Resources Management (ERM) IBM Jackie Huba John Wiley & Sons Porthos Three Musketeers Towers Perrin Trusted Partner WPP

McCallum 75

McCallum Review Books Banking 75

LDRLB

MARCH 9, 2016

Liann Eden is the co-founder of Eden McCallum, a consultant firm with no consultants. Using an innovative organizational design, Eden is able to bring the brightest consultants to client projects by forming bespoke teams. In this interview, we talk about how the model developed and why writing the org chart in pencil is the way of the future. Listen in iTunes ] [ Listen on Stitcher ]. In This episode, You’ll Learn: Why the traditional org chart is broken.

McCallum 101

McCallum Consultative Network Organization Review 101

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

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. Around the time of the dot-com boom in 2000, founders Liann Eden and Dena McCallum saw that many of their ex-McKinsey colleagues would love to continue doing some consulting work, just not full time. Eden and McCallum’s idea was: Come work for us!

McCallum 11

McCallum McKinsey Competitive Advantage Consultative 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

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. McCallum mines the cannon of executive aphorisms from the likes of Stephen Covey and Warren Buffett — but also Socrates, physicist Lord Kelvin, and Donald Rumsfeld — for those pithy phrases that really do capture the essence of common situations.

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McCallum CFO Covey Morale 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

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. Yet, when Eden McCallum was founded in 2000, it targeted start-ups and small business client just like HourlyNerd.

McCallum 8

McCallum Real Estate McKinsey Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

A company that understood this well is Eden McCallum. Eden McCallum shows that not all disruption need to be digital. “Digital is coming and it’s coming fast”; “No industry sector is immune to disruption”; “One thing is certain about digital transformation: It will be a big change for your entire organization”; “Digital will disrupt your industry.”

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McCallum Consultative Review Christensen 12