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The Consulting Pitch Deck Mistakes You Must Avoid
A consulting Pitch deck or consulting PowerPoint presentation is your pitch to a potential client. Unfortunately, presentation mistakes can cost you the business you are pitching for. Here are four tips to help you avoid mistakes and improve your hit ...
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Succeed as consultant > Essential consulting frameworks
The Four Types of Innovation You Should Master as a Consultant
Innovation is the reason why we moved from caves to high-rise buildings, innovation is the reason why we no longer get very sick because of minor ailments, and innovation is the reason why you’re reading this article on a screen ...
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Succeed as consultant > Essential consulting frameworks
The McKinsey 7S Model Explained With a Practical Example
In the 1980s, three McKinsey consultants, Tom Peters, Robert Waterman, and Julien Philips created a tool that would prove to be one of the best tools to examine organizational design—the McKinsey 7S Model. They created a list of seven internal ...
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Succeed as consultant > Becoming an independent consultant
Joining an Existing Boutique Consulting Firm Vs. Starting Your Own
The global consulting market is one of the most well-established of all professional services. It is expected to grow to nearly $900 billion by the end of 2021. So there seems to be enough work out there. The question for ...
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Succeed as consultant > Consulting Tools & Best practices
Top 5 Things to Avoid while Writing the Freelance Consultant Proposal
Creating a pitch or a proposal for a project is never easy. Unlike punting a product, you are your product. Yet, as a consultant pitches and proposals will become an integral part of your life. It’s one thing to approach ...
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Succeed as consultant > Consulting Tools & Best practices
Consultants! Discover Client’s Sustainable Competitive Advantage
A sustainable competitive advantage refers to a company’s assets, characteristics, and capabilities that are difficult to replicate by other companies and are sustainable. If a firm wants to develop a sustainable competitive advantage, it should hire an experienced consultant who ...
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Succeed as consultant > Essential consulting frameworks
How to Prepare For an Offer-Landing Consulting Virtual Interview
Preparing for consulting interviews can be a challenging task—whether it’s a virtual interview or an in-person one. However, with remote interviews, the landscape changes completely. There won’t be a need for a firm handshake to create a good first impression. ...
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4 Practical Tips for a Better Consulting Work-Life Balance
Long working hours and frequent travels! Does that sound familiar? Working as a consultant is both challenging and rewarding. The rewards are obvious: a great salary, working with the brightest people in the world, and the sense of satisfaction that ...
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