Anyone else in consulting feel like you don’t have principals/partners that stand up for you? On a project where the project team (including our principal) and client sponsors collaborated on an awesome roadmap and the client leadership (aka PEG) wasn’t buying it. The principal on the project didn’t say a word when we reviewed it with the PEG to help back us up. Back to square 1. How do you all address this?

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PPMD are more important to you than clients. You should brainstorm with them for their thoughts rather than crowdsourcing for actual solutions 😜

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Welcome to consulting. Partner takes the credit, you take the fall. Glad I left that toxic environment.

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DM me D1. Actually looking for resource with a specific skill set.

And MD1 - Happy for you. Consulting is not one size fits all. But in my 5 years in consulting, I saw what the majority opinion was, including mine.

The principal on the project team helped to design the roadmap, and didn’t own the presentation of the roadmap with the client?

That’s malpractice.

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Principal is not smart / intellectual enough to go up against the PEG guys. Doesn’t know know enough to refute their points and doesn’t completely buy into what you are proposing either. So he stays quiet.

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I’ve worked with a partner like this. There’s no solution where you win.

If it’s a real chronic problem ... you can try bringing it up in front of the partner’s peers — “How did you think that went in front of the client? Can we brainstorm what myself or the team can do differently next time?” The other partners might counsel that partner privately, if the situation was real egregious.

Truth is, sometimes it’s easier for the leader to stay quiet. Doesn’t make it right.

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What firm are you in? Why are you creating a roadmap and presenting before ensuring client support or even building roadmap together? Seems like terrible stakeholder management

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