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Waiting on a logo before your first consulting client isn’t due diligence, it’s hiding. What the numbers say about who actually gets hired.
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Long corporate proposal decks lose independent deals. Here is why lean two-page diagnostic scopes win, and how to strip red tape from your pitch.