To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!). . . . It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational processes that "overcome" such irregularities-don't bother telling that to a consultant. Hence, we should embrace the real, nonrational, nonlinear world with vigor and glee-and develop enterprise and career strategies accordingly.
Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
A consultant to be worth his salt must give honest judgments not necessarily those which he thinks the clients would like to hear.
Most people want Jesus as a consultant rather than a King, and He does not come that way.
My primary consultant is myself.
I was involved with Wells Fargo Bank as a consultant in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when I suggested to them that they develop a product that has become known as index funds.
I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story.
Donald Trump has used lawsuits as a weapon throughout his entire business career, and whether they`re frivolous or not has nothing to do with any of it. What he knows is if he can sue somebody for $10 million, that somebody, especially if it`s a consultant is not likely to have the money to defend it. So, then it goes away as long as he signs a non-disclosure act agreement and so on and so forth.
General consultant to mankind.
The real problem when working with a consultant, a therapist or a coach isn’t that we don’t know what to do. The real problem is that we don’t want to change our mind.
When I wrote my first book, Crisis Management: Planning for the Inevitable, it was endorsed by the American Management Association, and consequently was read by America's top corporate leaders, and overnight put me in high demand as a consultant and as a speaker. Also, that book forever changed the way businesses look at and deal with crises by giving a tangible feel to an otherwise intangible subject.
A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.
The legendary statistical consultant W. Edwards Deming,. . . has called the system by which merit is appraised and rewarded 'the most powerful inhibitor to quality and productivity in the Western world'. . . it is simply unfair to the extent that employees are held responsible for what are, in reality, systemic factors that are beyond their control.
I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer.
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.
A consultant is only as good as their last project.
Donald Trump's against amnesty and I'm against amnesty, not that anybody should care what a consultant thinks.
The role of a trainer or consultant is to empower the customer, not to make himself indispensable
A Consultant is a guy who knows 125 different ways to make love, but who doesn't know any women.
