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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! All of them work on a freelance basis.

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What So Many Strategists Get Wrong About Digital Disruption

Harvard Business Review

” Judging by the headlines and opening lines of recent articles and business books, digital is about to disrupt your industry and you with it – unless you act now (and buy the book). Therefore, when making strategy, the focus should be on identifying complements, rather than assuming complete substitution.