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by 23B1 4y ago
To quote Don Draper: "THAT'S WHAT THE MONEY'S FOR!"
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by 23B1 4y ago
Where did you get that 5x number? The rate cards we use are tied to market rates. Consulting (and services businesses in general) aren't super-profitable. I think probably you're just pulling numbers out of thin air. Now if you th
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by 23B1 4y ago
I've never heard of a U.S. based consultancy taking 80%. In my experience we'd be happy with an 18-20% margin, but more often it was half that.
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by 23B1 4y ago
The good P&L owners make it right and eat the marginal loss because they know long term relationships are more important than a single contract. That is generally how I ran my line – but I have had a very small number of extremely toxic
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by 23B1 4y ago
Well lets say you're a guy who runs the 10-year-old analytics platform for your company; your team's job is to deliver a bunch of charts and data to the executive team on the performance of the company on a weekly basis. That&#x27
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by 23B1 4y ago
So what you're saying is you have a lot of work to do = job security ;)
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by 23B1 4y ago
My savviest clients are already on this - why hire a consultant for strategy when you can just suss out what the competition is doing and improve incrementally on that? My only (personal) hope is that it’ll free guys like me up to soar thro
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by 23B1 4y ago
Nailed it. My only beef is that when you’re going line-by-line on the deliverables, arguing over the “definition of done” that you’re actually crushing whatever good will and budget remains for the innovation a company actually needs. And w
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by 23B1 4y ago
1. Yeah I stick primarily to hospitality and consumer companies (B2C and B2B2C) with a large amount of tech debt; because they're so mired in keeping their current systems alive, they don't have time to innovate, so thats where I
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by 23B1 4y ago
Yeah I mean I don't blame people for celebrating their successes and sexiest projects – I certainly don't include all my fails in my portfolio, heh. What's interesting about this article (and the general state of management c
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by 23B1 4y ago
Well for my clients they're often up against maxed-out resources or employees who are just mired in their day-to-day and need a sort of entrepreneur-in-residence. For me, I'm given one or several major strategic initiatives and th
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by 23B1 4y ago
Congrats man feel free to reach out if you ever want to collaborate. 05-trivet.turner@icloud.com I'm pure strategy, most of my clients are 'intraprenurial' CIOs, CSOs, CFOs.
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by 23B1 4y ago
I won't deny that I've been using it as a research assistant to investigate a lot market forces and conditions, but as always I have to support it with quality data and citations if it's gonna play in the board room and with
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by 23B1 4y ago
They're both global professional advisories with a ton of similar services and competing for similar clients. They ought to be thought of as basically body shops for management consulting.
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by 23B1 4y ago
I worked at Accenture as an MD for several years, primarily on innovation and transformation programs. I have plenty to say about them, but I think the key driving factor for all of the grift and awful performance has a lot to do with how t
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by 23B1 4y ago
If you have to pay to learn something, it's a grift. There's carve outs for technical fields, for people who are willing to pay a premium for speed, or personalized learning, or putative 'networking' of course.
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by 23B1 4y ago
Your friend is an addict and should seek gambling addiction groups.
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by 23B1 4y ago
I assume it could be a series of errors in which both airport and airline/pilots are to blame. One of the most maddening parts of travel SNAFUs is how they use this blame-shifting to avoid responsibility. I've encountered this num
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The SORO Pyramid: The building of a revolutionary movement (1966)(researchgate.net)
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by 23B1 4y ago
From the Special Operations Research Office (SORO). Read the source text of "Human Factors Considerations of Undergrounds in Insurgencies" here: https://books.google.com/books?printsec=frontcover&vid=LCCN6...
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by 23B1 4y ago
Not a great list. Most "war" is low intensity conflict anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-intensity_conflict
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by 23B1 4y ago
My point is simply that talk is cheap – and this problem exists because that's all anyone does about it.
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by 23B1 4y ago
It'd be great if this discussion didn't death-spiral like the last one. You can argue about the causes and the effects all you want, but unless you're doing something about it – either moving away, getting involved in policy,
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by 23B1 4y ago
Yes all of my TVs are Sceptre ( https://www.sceptre.com ) and they're dumb and cheap.
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by 23B1 4y ago
If you struggle with distraction or discipline, you must get http://freedom.to on your devices. It is simple, easy, effective, and the single best ROI of any app I have ever paid for. Not affiliated with these guys, but this sh*
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by 23B1 4y ago
"Fail Again. Fail Better." - Beckett
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by 23B1 4y ago
Yep, I use this in writing. Leave that juicy scene until tomorrow, so I jump out of bed instead of slithering to the coffee machine while building a list of excuses in my head.
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by 23B1 4y ago
SORO = Special Operations Research Office I believe it was originally found in this publication: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Human-Factors-Consider... which you can read here: https://books.google.
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by 23B1 4y ago
Yeah, the interesting thing is that we're doing it to ourselves despite our (ostensibly) global supremacy. Having spent a lot of time looking at what unwinds a country – and I'm no sociologist or geopolitical expert – it generally
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by 23B1 4y ago
I always love it when this pops up. I'm unfamiliar with the origins of this particular version, but the Office of Strategic Services, working alongside the SOE and other Allied intelligence agencies distributed a wide array of manuals,

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