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Eight common challenges of boutique consulting firms

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When I started this, I thought that my audience would be people in big companies stuck inside strategy, finance, or analytics groups that didn’t have access to training. If training is something you can deprioritize, your firm will struggle with developing internal capabilities. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving?

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The Pyramid Principle: Book Summary & Review (Part 2: Logic In Thinking)

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If you’d like to go to the previous section you can find the following links to each: Logic In Writing Logic In Thinking Logic in Problem-Solving Logic In Presentation. For example, let’s say you are assessing a business. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving?

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

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After having a couple more jobs which I continued to learn, develop confidence in my skills and gain more clarity over the type of work I wanted to do, I decided it was time to make the leap. During this transition, many people develop a completely different mindset and perspective on work, income, money and how they live life.

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

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So in the last 1800s, Frederick Taylor and several others in the US started exploring new ways to think about running a business. Part of the toolkit McKinsey developed was a 30-page document called the “General Survey Outline” (GSO) and it stood out for how it was different than Taylor’s “how-to” approach.