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The Origin of Consulting and Consultants

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Research serves to make building stones out of stumbling blocks.

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     Ibid.

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     McKenna, World’s Newest Profession.

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     Martin Kihn, House of Lies: How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time (New York, New York: Business Plus, 2005).

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Orr, L.M., Orr, D.J. (2013). Origins. In: When to Hire—or Not Hire—a Consultant. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4735-7_3

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