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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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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. The Far Reach of Supportive Senior Managers (Strategy+Business). HE LIKES ME, HE REALLY LIKES ME.

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What So Many Strategists Get Wrong About Digital Disruption

Harvard Business Review

Therefore, when making strategy, the focus should be on identifying complements, rather than assuming complete substitution. A company that understood this well is Eden McCallum. Eden McCallum shows that not all disruption need to be digital. Geography (still) matters.

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All For One: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

All For One: 10 Strategies for Building Trusted Client Partnerships Andrew Sobel John Wiley & Sons (2009) “Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno” Those who have read the novel, Three Musketeers, already know that its author, Alexander Dumas pere, took advantage of every appropriate opportunity to have his principal characters (d’Artagnan (..)

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