To make things interesting, I am proposing the following game: interview a consultant, win a prize! Send me a copy of the interview by Friday 26 March 2010, Sydney time.
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Mismatch between what science knows and what business does
Daniel Pink puts forward the idea that there is currently a mismatch between what science knows and what business does.
Pink presents the Candle Problem, an experiment invented in 1945 by Karl Duncker. The experiment works as …
A week ago today, an aspiring management consultant started blogging about the consulting application process – he has already written 27 posts!
Wait a second, I hear your say, there are dozens of consulting blogs, why does this blog rate a mention?
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There is talk about town and in the media of an economic upturn in the final quarter of 2009 – “banks are lending, consumers are buying, and companies are hiring.” While it is not possible to predict the movement of the economy with …
I was forced to delete and re-install Wordpress today in a bid to get rid of a virus known as the Gumblar virus. Thank you to the Blue Tortoise for talking me through this painfully slow process!
I really hope that my effort was successful because, …
Executives often rely on the advice of expert management consultants. Was it always this way? Where did it all begin?
The very first management consulting firm was Arthur D. Little, founded all the way back in 1886 by a professor at MIT whose name was (funnily …