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Consulting Industry

Consulting Firms in India

ARE you an aspiring consultant looking to work India? Or perhaps you are just interested to know more about the leading consulting firms in South Asia? What ever the case may be, we have just produced, for your benefit, a guidebook which provides an overview of the most prominent consulting firms in India. The guidebook is free. No member sign […]

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Strategy

Two lessons we might learn from Christmas

For many of us, especially expectant young children, Christmas is a day of high expectations.  It can often fall short of the mark. Santa may have brought you an Xbox when you had desperately wanted a Playstation. Or perhaps you got a new Samsung tablet, when you were busting for the new iPad instead. It can be painful when reality falls dismally […]

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Economics

Wealth

Where do you place value? (Source: Flickr) ONE of our heroes, New York based consultant Alan Weiss, has a unique perspective on wealth. He regularly shares the view that “wealth is discretionary time”. The reason his approach to wealth is so striking is that most people, at least those of us living in Western market based economies, tend […]

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Innovation Skills, Tips, and Tactics

Making progress in the absence of knowledge

ALL too often, and especially when starting out on a new project, the things we don’t know outnumber the things we do. We may know very little and, in the absence of knowledge, we can become stuck. Paralysis, our inability or unwillingness to make forwards progress, is the surest road to stagnation, difficulty and ultimate demise. What can be done […]

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Economics

William Black on Global Financial Stability

WILLIAM Black, former bank regulator and Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri, witnessed first hand how banks took control of the banking system to commit fraud on a colossal scale. In his TED Talk from last year (watch it below) Black talks about “liar’s loans” and other tactics that the banks used to bring […]