Guys what’s consulting good for? What value do you actually provide to your clients?

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Come on! What a negative mood. 10x speed to insights and execution, higher quality in analytics and structure, unbiased point-of-views, moving the changes forward, and I could continue. Yes it can be sometime frustrating, yes it can be sometime wasted, yes yes yes yes.. but you own part of it.. improve things if you dont’ like it as it is. Or exit if hopeless. Life deserves a purpose!!

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And of course the purpose of life is not consulting.. But you got my point here.. Get a drink and a good sleep tonight and look at a brighter future starting tomorrow!!

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Tbh 20% value, 80% fluff
4 months in. Maybe it gets better at the top

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Everyone needs a scapegoat sometimes

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Very true. Probably the best answer.

I don’t get it. I’m an analyst and I’m making deliverables that the client doesn’t even look at.

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Same at the consultant level. Create the documents, submit to SharePoint, send confirmation email...bring it up in conversation 2 months later and I might as well be speaking Klingon.

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Exiting soon!!! Cannot stand the hypocrisy and lack of ethics in consulting.

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For them to not think and point at your work. Checkbox done.

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Not much. It is really staff aug. Also, C suite needs others to tell them which decisions to make, especially cutting headcount.

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Sometimes we just get hired so they can have someone to blame on.

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$ and executive presence.

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Your daily existential crisis, duh

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What is it good for? Absolutely nothing

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It’s true. And I’m not even upset haha

Mo money mo problems

I make the decisions they are afraid to make.

Sometimes clients have an idea of what analysis they want to do and what the answer will probably look like, but don’t have the resources (talent and hours) to do it. So a bit of high caliber staff aug maybe

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