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We didn’t end up working together because we defined a problem that was his to solve, not mine. For example, in my consulting work with professionalservices firms, I found that many clients were asking not only for training, but wanted talks around high-performance consulting. What do you think?” Be detailed.
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. Other professionalservices decided to get in the fun too with IBM, Deloitte and Arthur Anderson all having strategy consulting offerings by the mid 90s.
AKA the professionalservices leverage model. There are at least a couple companies on that list that are billable hour mills, really 6 I can count. The reason they have more Gen Y is that they can bill them high, pay them low.
Posted by Dan Owen on November 19, 2009 at 1:44 pm | permalink | Reply Agree – most "eat what you kill" types in the professionalservices business end up getting incentivized to sell the wrong thing to people that have not much of a clue of what they are buying. Stop perpetuating this nonsense.
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