Some weeks ago, through a volunteer effort of mine, I met a longtime corporate responsibility consultant, Neil Smith, of SmithOBrien, one of the more seasoned corporate responsibility consulting outfits.
The report, conducted by independent international corporate identity consultant Interbrand, placed Giordano at No. 20 on the list.
Mike Jenkins, a partner with corporate strategy consultant Marakon Associates, thinks the company is showing signs of being a disciplined buyer that knows how to pick assets it can add value to.
"'Been around a long time' used to be the most important thing you could say about a product, " says Allen Adamson, a corporate-identity consultant at Landor Associates.
He is his own best corporate strategist, security consultant, designer, manufacturing expert, and marketer.
At the age of35, Linda Arroz made a major career change: from a working on the assembly line at a General Motors plant as a spot-welder to an image consultant in the corporate and fashion worlds.
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Amador, 51, a clinical psychologist, has also built a career as an author, executive coach and consultant with a slew of corporate and government clients.
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Moricca, a Harvard Law School grad and former McKinsey consultant, got his start in corporate entrepreneurship with Scholastic before forming BreakoutBand, an online music creation platform aimed at teens in 2011.
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New York public relations consultant Ken Makovsky says that in the corporate world, a staffer would be fired if he made a statement that so undermined the CEO.
With creative examples like a poet who became a management consultant, and an Army helicopter pilot who transitioned into corporate America, Dorie makes this point eloquently and shows us how we can all do it.
But: If yours is a "personal service corporation"--meaning the corporation's main output is your own work effort, for instance as consultant or pet groomer--then all your profits are taxed at a flat 35% corporate rate and you'll usually do better with a passthrough.
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