Who’s Worse?

April 4, 2014      Admin

The client or the consulting firm?

Seth Godin recently featured the meeting in the following video. Do you recognize it? Have you been there?! [I can’t wait to hear from consultants!!]

He comments: “We owe it to our work and to the people who pay us to stand up (often) and say, ‘no, sorry, I won’t do that’.”

Amen … and enjoy!

Tom

 

4 responses to “Who’s Worse?”

  1. Mike Bento says:

    That was excruciating to watch, and may have induced the consultants version of PTSD.

  2. Heather E. says:

    *facepalm*

  3. Oh my, yes I have been there. Classic example of who needs to protect whom. Consultants from themselves, consultants from clients, clients from consultants or clients from themselves…

  4. Lance Colie says:

    The consulting firm is worse, by far! They choose to ignore obvious facts and a project doomed to failure rather than help the clients see reality and adjust plans accordingly. It is one thing to push back against typical resistance to change and help both client and other outside experts to see new possibilities, grow and adapt to new realities. This is a good thing. It is something else to totally ignore reality in order to make client happy and, therefore, doom the client to failure.

    Fortunately, the consultants with which I have had experience over the years are not like this one!