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

StrategyU

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 professional services 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.

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

StrategyU

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 professional services decided to get in the fun too with IBM, Deloitte and Arthur Anderson all having strategy consulting offerings by the mid 90s.

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How to know if you'll be good at sales | Penelope Trunk's Brazen.

Penelope Trunk

Posted by Dan Owen on November 19, 2009 at 1:44 pm | permalink | Reply Agree – most "eat what you kill" types in the professional services 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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Announcing: Brazen Careerist Top 50 Places to Work | Penelope.

Penelope Trunk

AKA the professional services 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.

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