{"id":1346,"date":"2009-01-20T00:14:34","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T04:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/?p=1346"},"modified":"2009-01-20T00:19:57","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T04:19:57","slug":"rethinking-consulting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/1346","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking consulting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been doing formal consultation since 1989, when I started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galindoconsultants.com\">Educational Consultants<\/a>.  The venture achieved all the goals I had for it, including covering the college tuition for the boys. While success is its own reward, there\u2019s a downside to it also. The traveling got old pretty soon, for one thing. I\u2019m in the process of reconsidering how long I want to continue. Lately I\u2019m turning down more offers and invitations than I\u2019m taking on. Some of that has to do with the new job, but some of it is that my interests may be changing. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the midst of the process of this discernment I\u2019m reviewing some of my early files on consulting. I came across the following in one file: <\/p>\n<p>Top Ten Things You&#8217;ll Never Hear from a Consultant<\/p>\n<p> 10. You&#8217;re right; we&#8217;re billing way too much for this.<br \/>\n 9. Bet you I can go a week without saying &#8220;synergy&#8221; \u201cparadigm,\u201d \u201coutside the box,\u201d or &#8220;value-added&#8221;.<br \/>\n 8. How about paying us based on the success of the project?<br \/>\n 7. This whole strategy is based on a Harvard business case I read.<br \/>\n 6. Actually, the only difference is that we charge more than they do.<br \/>\n 5. I don&#8217;t know enough to speak intelligently about that.<br \/>\n 4. Implementation?  I only care about writing long reports and proposals.<br \/>\n 3. I can&#8217;t take the credit.  Larry in your marketing department came up with the idea.<br \/>\n 2. The problem is, you have too much work for too few people.<br \/>\n 1. Everything looks okay to me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.galindoconsultants.com\"><img src='http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/galindobanner5.jpg' alt='galindoconsultants.com' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been doing formal consultation since 1989, when I started Educational Consultants. The venture achieved all the goals I had for it, including covering the college tuition for the boys. While success is its own reward, there\u2019s a downside to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/1346\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1352,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions\/1352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}