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John Legend Made Slides? What Famous Alums Learned In Consulting

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These firms produce many impressive alumni because they tend to recruit and attract some of the most driven young people around the world, the work is oriented towards helping senior leaders of top companies, and the fact that there is an expectation that most people who work at these firms will not spend their entire careers at them.

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The Ultimate Guide To Becoming A Freelance Consultant: 25 Things I’ve Learned

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Test your Commitment : In my career, I’ve often tested out next steps in my career by telling people what that next step might be and then judging both my reaction and theirs. For example, early in my career, I would tell people “I am trying to break into consulting.” Once you have this, you can set up a corporate bank account.

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A Brief History of Strategy Consulting: 100 years from Frederick Taylor to the “Next New Normal”

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While Taylor came from a family of some means, college was not the first stop in his career. While consulting often gets criticized for partnering with questionable governments and pushing a myopic shareholder value view of the world, it is hard to ignore the fact that consulting also spread many good ideas across the world.