Many times, what a consultant does is to find out what the client wants to know (how can we make widgets cheaper?) The consultant goes to the lowest levels involved, and asks the same question (Hi, widget-maker, how can we make widgets cheaper?) The consultant then takes the answers, collates them, puts them [...]
Tagged Consulting, SNAFU principleBack a good long while ago, I was closely involved with The Intelligence Community, which contrary to popular belief isn’t really named by opposites. It is, however, a massive multiple-agency bureaucracy with roots in all the individual services, the Justice Department, and the Executive branch of FDR and Harry Truman. (And yes, the [...]
People do what is rewarded. What people are doing is what has been rewarded.