The Labor Day weekend typically marks the end of summer vacations and the beginning of the fall work schedule. Generally most schools are back in session and most companies are ramping back up with meetings and projects. This year, though, it seems that things are lagging an extra week. Here it is Friday and there [...]

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In a follow up to the August 31 blog post covering negative feelings towards management consultants at Boeing, here, we came across this “The Atlantic” article titled About My Job: The Management Consultant. The author addresses the major complaint against management consultants by delving down to the heart of the matter.
The complaint against management consultants [...]

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Boeing is currently under the gun with continued delays and reschedules on their much anticipated new jetliner. With the heat on the leadership team they have turned to an outside management consulting firm to offer serious recommendations for change. In this op-ed piece from The Seattle Times author Jon Talton discusses his opinion on the [...]

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One of the biggest, and most unpleasant, surprises to face the newly self-employed is the higher level of taxation that often comes with that self-employed status. When you are working for someone else, your employer shoulders a great deal of the tax burden that accrues from keeping you on the payroll. But when you leave [...]

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The process consultants go through to start a consulting business vary by trade, personality, and goals but in the end we all follow the same general path to success. Confab 2010 is focused on helping consultants grow and improve their business. To this end we have just posted a brief primer for would be consultants [...]

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Here it is 2010 and there are still articles coming out discussing the upcoming wave of the “paperless office”. A Canadian story from this week cites a graduate student’s research project that found many consumers and businesses still prefer paper receipts, invoices, and archiving over digital copies (link). In March, CNN ran a story on [...]

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June 26 came and went and we are guessing that no one sent you flowers or took you out for that nice business luncheon. Why should they have you ask? Because June 26 was International Consultant Day. Designated a few years back by the top IMC managing board the day was intended to remind people [...]

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Did you hear the one about the entrepreneur who started a business built around her passion, built it for six years, and then sold it for $40 million? Well it was not a joke and it really did happen. Meet Theresa Szczurek, PhD a presenter at Confab 2010. She will provide attendees with a practical [...]

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The Wall Street Journal reports that the market for new MBA grads is hit and miss. (article) Of note is an increase in consulting job opportunities for recent grads. Confab 2010 is focusing on Building a Consulting Business which seems to dovetail with the anecdotal findings of this article.
Consultants offer companies a unique selling proposition [...]

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Jennifer Leake will guide attendees through an interactive discussion covering 7 steps she has adapted and perfected to grow a consulting business. Often times it is the simple things that trip up new consultants and the mundane items that slow down existing consultants. By evaluating the practices that work and the steps that do not [...]

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