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The Ultimate Guide To “Scoping”: How Consultants Define Problems and Shape 

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This is why consulting can feel more like therapy than business problem-solving. This is the value of a consultant, the ability to continue to search for the problem behind the problem. Instead, I turned back to him and said, “Sounds like a talent problem, not a training problem. What do you think?”

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A Brief History of Strategy Consulting: 100 years from Frederick Taylor to the “Next New Normal”

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Here is McDonald again (emphasis mine): “The emphasis in the GSO was more on why managers did things, as opposed to how they did them. Despite all these bets, the big three still derive most of their income from traditional long-term consulting engagements with large businesses, which are still performing well.