What Consultants Actually Do
Consultants help executives decide and change through strategy, culture and operations.
The right insight can sharpen judgment, reveal hidden patterns, and turn uncertainty into a clearer path forward. This collection brings together ideas that help you see more broadly, think more critically, and make decisions with greater confidence and perspective. Expect articles that surface what matters, connect the dots across complex situations, and help you move from information overload to meaningful action. Read this category when you want better clarity, better choices, and better outcomes.
Consultants help executives decide and change through strategy, culture and operations.
Depreciation has two meanings: economic value loss and accounting cost allocation. Here is what consultants must know.
Deloitte's 2016 report tracks ten trends reshaping how organizations engage, lead and deploy people.
Default choices shape decisions everywhere. Consultants can harness choice architecture.
ROE splits into asset returns and leverage, and leverage cuts both ways.
Curiosity is the renewable energy source that sustains careers through change.
Maister's three archetypes explain the pyramid economics of consulting and law.
Gift cards solve gifting's inefficiency and mint profit from forgetfulness.
Symbolic diplomacy meets real opportunity, and real obstacles, in a reopening Cuba.
Real networking gives before it asks and sustains relationships for years.
A page-by-page teardown of McKinsey craft, from structure to creativity.
The CEO role changes completely as headcount scales from dozens to thousands.