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Tom Spencer consulting blog

http://www.tomspencer.com.au

An evolving perspective on management consulting, business strategy, and investing.

• Added on: May 22nd, 2008
• Country: Australia
• Language: English

• Author: spannerintheworks
• Listed in: Business Investing
• Tags: investing economics business strategy management consulting

Recent Posts

• Consultants – highly paid scapegoats?

  Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 07:05 in consulting, management consulting, headline, scapegoats, consulting research, principal-agent problem, peter spencer, sheep joke

  (Flickr: scapegoat) Management consultants are often loudly criticised. Why is this so? A large part of the reason is that consultants are paid a lot of money to provide recommendations which may or may not be implemented, and may or may not work. ...

• What skills do you need to be a consultant?

  Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 05:33 in skills, consulting, business skills, management consulting, headline, management skills, sales skills, analytical skills, consulting skills, victor cheng, client skills

  (Flickr: colours) Former McKinsey consultant Victor Cheng provides us with an interesting insight. The skills that get you hired as a consultant are not the same skills that get you promoted, and the skills that get you promoted are not the same ski...

• Dunbar’s Strategy Group – places are limited

  Posted on Tuesday October 27th, 2009 at 06:54 in investing, seth godin, business strategy, headline, 150, facebook group, investment strategy, dunbar, dunbar's number

  I just read Seth Godin’s post on Dunbar’s Number. Dunbar’s Number is thought to be around 150, and represents the number of people that we humans can place in a group before stable social relationships begin to break down.  The thi...

• Daniel Pink on the surprising science of motivation

  Posted on Saturday October 24th, 2009 at 22:55 in video, motivation, purpose, mastery, business strategy, autonomy, daniel pink, candle problem

  (Flickr: Mythili Prakash) 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 experim...

• Off to a flying start!

  Posted on Monday October 19th, 2009 at 08:25 in blog, consulting, management consulting, consulting research, consider consulting, consulting application process

  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 men...

• Off to a flying start!

  Posted on Monday October 19th, 2009 at 08:25 in blog, consulting, management consulting, headline, consulting research, consider consulting, consulting application process

  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 men...

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This blog is currently rated a 5.00 out of a possible 5 based on 1 comment.

Kevin Saitta

Lots of useful information.

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