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Yeah, I rarely see consultants give much advice beyond what the leadership already said they wanted to do - albeit not often directly. What seems to commonly h
by matwood 4y ago
Yeah, I rarely see consultants give much advice beyond what the leadership already said they wanted to do - albeit not often directly.
What seems to commonly happen is a consultant comes in, listens to leadership, and then regurgitates what leadership already really wants to do. This lets leadership absolve some of the responsibility when it fails ("The consultant told us to do X").
And it makes sense because who knows the business better than leadership? The consultants can't really do much else other than take their cues from leadership. What routinely surprises me is just how much companies are willing to pay for this service.
- lmm 4y ago> And it makes sense because who knows the business better than leadership? The consultants can't really do much else other than take their cues from leadership. What routinely surprises me is just how much companies are willing to pay for this service. The company pays but the leaders benefit. You can charge a lot when it's other people's money.
- DSingularity 4y agoWow. I wonder what conditions and experiences lead executives to end up that perspective on hiring consultants. Naive me took them at face value: idea generators for companies whose executives suspect untapped potential.