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Consulting

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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Strategy

Big Ideas, Bad Results: Avoiding Strategic Uselessness

Imagine spending months crafting a detailed, data-driven strategy, only to watch it gather dust on a shelf. This scenario plays out far too often in the corporate world. In a rapidly shifting business landscape, with advances like AI, quantum computing, advanced robotics, blockchain, and gene editing, spending valuable time and resources developing a strategically useless […]

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Innovation

The Innovator Inside: How to Overcome Institutional Inertia

As technology changes the business environment at an increasing rate, established companies have become increasingly innovative. Despite their best efforts, however, large companies are often unable to keep up with technological change due to bureaucracy, legacy systems, pre-existing business models, institutional inertia, and financial constraints. The purpose of this article is to suggest five habits […]