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0710 | Writing the Org Chart in Pencil with Liann Eden

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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. Listen in iTunes ] [ Listen on Stitcher ].

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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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What So Many Strategists Get Wrong About Digital Disruption

Harvard Business Review

As a firm, McKinsey finds consulting projects and then matches them with people they have recruited and trained. Others began databases of freelance consultants where they searched for suitable people for the projects they secured. A company that understood this well is Eden McCallum.

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Revenge of the HourlyNerds

Harvard Business Review

business schools and select international schools to bid on consulting projects that have been posted by prospective clients, mostly small business owners. HourlyNerd, by encouraging students to bid against each other, likely drives down the hourly cost of projects even more. Eden McCallum , for example, is a U.K.