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0710 | Writing the Org Chart in Pencil with Liann Eden

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Liann Eden is the co-founder of Eden McCallum, a consultant firm with no consultants. Under New Management. Under New Management Preorder Bonuses. Using an innovative organizational design, Eden is able to bring the brightest consultants to client projects by forming bespoke teams. Listen in iTunes ] [ Listen on Stitcher ].

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What Happens When All Employees Work When They Feel Like It

Harvard Business Review

Do you work for a firm where managers think employees really have to work (what is called) “full time”? Around the time of the dot-com boom in 2000, founders Liann Eden and Dena McCallum saw that many of their ex-McKinsey colleagues would love to continue doing some consulting work, just not full time. Does it work?

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Morning Advantage: Take My CFO, Please

Harvard Business Review

At first blush, it sounds like something straight out of the mind of Scott Adams, but John McCallum's guide to management one-liners in the Ivey Business Journal has its sincere merits. The Far Reach of Supportive Senior Managers (Strategy+Business). HE LIKES ME, HE REALLY LIKES ME.

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What So Many Strategists Get Wrong About Digital Disruption

Harvard Business Review

Consider the management consulting industry. A company that understood this well is Eden McCallum. Eden McCallum shows that not all disruption need to be digital. It has been a stable and quite homogeneous industry for many decades. In fact, you cannot successfully do consulting without them.

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All For One: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

All For One: 10 Strategies for Building Trusted Client Partnerships Andrew Sobel John Wiley & Sons (2009) “Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno” Those who have read the novel, Three Musketeers, already know that its author, Alexander Dumas pere, took advantage of every appropriate opportunity to have his principal characters (d’Artagnan (..)

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