Chart Your Course

JULY 29, 2013

According to MBO Partners, a support service for independent consultants, boomers are a fast growing sector of the independent workforce. In its 2012 Independent Workforce Index, MBO Partners estimates that boomers account for around a third of all independent consultants. Marketing, Marketing. Set Up Shop.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Management by Objectives (MBO) became the height of corporate fashion in the late 1950s. Later, MBO evolved into strategic planning. Planners have traditionally been obsessed with gathering hard data on their industry, markets, competitors. The capacity and willingness of managers to plan developed throughout the century.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

A survey conducted for the past three years on behalf of MBO Partners , a provider of support services for independent workers, counts temp workers, on-call workers, and those on fixed-term contracts as “independent workers.” Given that the actual research commissioned by MBO says that there are now about 17.7

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

But we’re not quite there yet, according to a new survey conducted for MBO Partners, which provides back-office services to independent workers — which it dubs “solopreneurs.” They ranked sales and marketing sixth. Overall, there are now an estimated 17.9 million estimate, derived from an online poll of 2,017 people, is up from 17.7

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2016

Independent workers also benefit from exposure to more opportunities and less need to spend time networking and marketing their services. For example, Tech Americas USA, a business process outsourcing firm, uses Work Market’s freelancer management system to find, hire, and help manage contract workers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

One of the big challenges for the people leading global sales organizations is figuring out the right way to set pay for for salespeople who work in vastly different countries and markets. Each country has its own market dynamics, business culture, laws, and availability of data for measuring performance.

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