Have you noticed that nearly everyone you meet nowadays is a consultant? You no longer need great credentials and it seems the best way to become a consultant is to get fired. Is this proliferation of consultancy getting out of hand?
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
The Anxiety Game
From all the games that managers play the most subtle and awarding is the anxiety game. As every executive knows the real purpose of communication in an organization is to generate and transfer anxiety. When looking to climb the corporate ladder, which is most important, what you achieve or how you appear?
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Sooner or later the Executive has to give in
Holidays are not always the happy historic institution that folk law and the tourist industry would like us to believe. Remove the day-to-day pressure of the office and a new kind of pressure takes place…holiday stress.
Sooner or later the Executive has to give in.
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
The consultant explosion
Have you noticed that nearly everyone you meet nowadays is a consultant, or at least pretends to be? Top theologians at the Harvard Business School (that august seminary for the corporate priesthood) are predicting that in a few years time the entire business world will consist of consultants. With characteristic prescience they are preparing graduates for the fast track in consultancy with special courses in apologetics and oenology. A pundit of my acquaintance (a high-caste consultant from Bangalore) attributes what he calls the ‘consultant explosion’ to some arcane synergism wrought by the world recession and the warm weather.