http://walt.lishost.org/2007/07/borrowing-your-watch-an-apology-to-some-consultants/ The library voice of the radical middle. Fri, 24 May 2013 04:22:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://walt.lishost.org/2007/07/borrowing-your-watch-an-apology-to-some-consultants/comment-page-1/#comment-29029 K.G. Schneider Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:59:29 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=586#comment-29029 The consulting jobs I consider most successful (for both me and the organizations engaging my services) were those where the library clearly had an issue over which they were strongly divided and needed third-party input. In many cases, the consult boiled down to one crucial question.

]]> http://walt.lishost.org/2007/07/borrowing-your-watch-an-apology-to-some-consultants/comment-page-1/#comment-29009 walt Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:22:02 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=586#comment-29009 Not all that tangential, and another perfectly legitimate reason to pay a consultant. Thanks.

]]> http://walt.lishost.org/2007/07/borrowing-your-watch-an-apology-to-some-consultants/comment-page-1/#comment-29007 Seth Finkelstein Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:22:18 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=586#comment-29007 Somewhat tangentially, my understanding of the business consulting market is that *some* of it is based on the need for having an outsider state what is obvious to the insiders, so that the outsider is the bearer of bad news rather than any insiders. They aren’t being paid for the obvious, but rather for the politics behind the obvious.

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