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Consultants Founders: From Slide Decks to Sweat Equity

Vision without execution is hallucination. — Thomas Edison Among the many exciting exit opportunities for consultants, entrepreneurship is a small but growing option. While hard to track as a general trend, starting one’s own business is an option always at the back of a consultant’s mind. Entrepreneurship has a unique allure, replacing corporate hierarchy and […]

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Consulting stereotypes – what can we learn?

Consultants can help an organisation by supporting organisational change, accelerating information gathering and ensuring rigorous analysis FOLLOWING on from the previous post which considered whether consultants are just highly paid scapegoats, let’s consider a common consulting stereotype which sheds some light on where consultants add value. Consultants are people who borrow your watch, tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch. Attributed to Robert Townsend, this well known […]