you're absolutely correct. a colleague working on getting all the certifications he can get was telling me how his boss explained that is what the consultancy a

you're absolutely correct. a colleague working on getting all the certifications he can get was telling me how his boss explained that is what the consultancy actually sells. this seems to always happens, is this the commoditization of skills? All work is done with some kind of a redundancy: no particular individual's skills are permitted to really move the scale/balance. All work is done by teams; only the whole team matters such that the individuals are replaceable across all teams. Any team member can fuckup, drop the ball, get hit by a bus such that the work carries on unimpeded.