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How I Became a Millionaire as an Independent Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

For me it’s time with family and friends and traveling. I’ve poured all that learning into the knowledge base and webinars at the Professional Independent Consultants of America , a new membership organization and ecosystem I co-founded to help independent consultants be successful. Live within your means.

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5 Benefits of Internal Strategy vs Consulting

Tom Spencer

I joined consulting to learn new things constantly, but over time I also realized I wanted to gain depth rather than persistently add breadth to my knowledge base. When I transitioned to a corporate role and stopped traveling weekly, I made an effort to diversify my social network.

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When to Decentralize Decision Making, and When Not To

Harvard Business

By doing so they avoid the delays associated with information and approvals traveling up and down the management hierarchy. Nicolai Foss and Peter Klein argue in the article “ Why Managers Still Matter ” that “In today’s knowledge-based economy, managerial authority is supposedly in decline.

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How to scale shared success through collaboration and trust

Kates Kesler

We don’t travel, eat, walk, drink together…and won’t anytime soon. We are saving time by not having to commute or travel, yet many people spend more time on video calls than ever before. Everyone is leaning in, but few people are letting go and saying, ‘I trust you.’”. “I I now sit on multiple teams with competing priorities.

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Business Spotlight: Stanford GBS grad launches Returnships

Management Consulted

For example, I worked in manufacturing for 5 years, and when I went to Stanford, I wanted out of manufacturing, and that’s a whole other story, but I was able to take that 5% of my time that was spent on TQM, total quality management, as a knowledge base that I had to transfer into something different. But yeah, absolutely.

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Gallup Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

SRI’s expertise plays an important role in what is now Gallup Consulting because the merger actually expanded Gallup’s knowledge base and expertise, increasing its value to worldwide corporations and other organizations. . During the 1990s, Gallup experienced its largest growth.

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Reasons for Today's Stress Pandemic (and Why High-Achieving Women Suffer the Most)

Consulting Matters

Since men did the traveling, men went to market and so the market institutions, rules, laws and habits were created by men for men. The physical strength of men was no longer needed to accomplish knowledge based work and so the bonafide job qualifications were leveled. Heavy travel. Fast-pace (with tight deadlines).