> Anyone external had more influence on company direction than the most experienced employees. That's one reason why people employ consultants. A consultant is

> Anyone external had more influence on company direction than the most experienced employees. That's one reason why people employ consultants. A consultant is someone an organisation employs to tell it what it already knows. Sometimes it doesn't know that it knows it, but more often it already knows what needs to be done, but an external entity gives a veneer of respectability to grasping a difficult nettle.