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The Ultimate Guide To “Scoping”: How Consultants Define Problems and Shape 

StrategyU

We didn’t end up working together because we defined a problem that was his to solve, not mine. For example, in my consulting work with professional services firms, I found that many clients were asking not only for training, but wanted talks around high-performance consulting. What do you think?” Be detailed.

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

StrategyU

The history of strategy consulting starts with Frederick Taylor and the Scientific Management movement but took many twists and turns as it evolved into its current state, an industry looking inward and pondering where it fits in the new technology-powered business world. one that would focus on business strategy.

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Announcing: Brazen Careerist Top 50 Places to Work | Penelope.

Penelope Trunk

AKA the professional services leverage model. There are only a handful of major corporations whose sense of social purpose is intertwined with their business strategy. There are at least a couple companies on that list that are billable hour mills, really 6 I can count.

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How to know if you'll be good at sales | Penelope Trunk's Brazen.

Penelope Trunk

Posted by Dan Owen on November 19, 2009 at 1:44 pm | permalink | Reply Agree – most "eat what you kill" types in the professional services business end up getting incentivized to sell the wrong thing to people that have not much of a clue of what they are buying. A lot of pre-attack strategy goes into it.