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Thanks for the book recommendation! It looks interesting. That said, there seems to be a bottomless opportunity in business writing in offering taxonomies of t

Thanks for the book recommendation! It looks interesting. That said, there seems to be a bottomless opportunity in business writing in offering taxonomies of things. I'm not saying the taxonomy is a bad one in this case, just that there are perils in boxing things into the mental categories someone else has set up for you to sell a book, as a very general principle. That said, it seems like a reasonable way to break down consulting firms...

jake_morrison 8y ago
The useful part is that each of these has a certain business model, and depends on ability to hire and/or retain people to do it. My own company is a combination of me doing expertise consulting and the rest being experience consulting, and we don't do execution, as it's a commodity. Running a McDonalds is different from running a fine French restaurant. The McDonalds likely makes more money, but requires a lot more scale. It's not very satisfying if you are a chef.