I don’t understand why our clients don’t just fire the underperforming resources that are requiring us to be there. Instead they just debate our fees. The real waste is paying salaries to those people

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When was the last time you fired someone? I guess consulting firms do it better than industry but I’d bet there are a ton of underperforming PWC folks who have a job!

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OP - I am suggesting look inside your firm and raise the same questions and don’t make it a habit to berate clients! I am all for letting go of underperforming resources and have had to do it several times.

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It’s not always extremely hard to remove someone in industry. There are other factors at play like overall morale and cost of retraining. Don’t be so damned judgmental. Those clients are the ones paying your salaries.

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I forgot there are never bad staffing decisions in consulting. 😂

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Living with decisions is something that you don’t really appreciate until you’ve worked in the industry side (or have been in operational leadership in a consulting firm).

It’s not easy to make those decisions and take actions. We get to live if a weird life that is mostly free of long term responsibility for our recommendations.

I fired several people while I was in industry and it really has a wider reaching effect than simply cutting the fat.

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OP .. have you always been a star performer? Are you saying that you never failed ?

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@director are you saying everyone is entitled to a job regardless of performance?

I wonder the same, but have heard it was extremely hard to remove someone in industry.

I’m just speaking from experience. Where a manager was hired and since he wasn’t removed the rest of the team of 4 left the company. There’s not really a cost of retraining a new manager but the team of 4 seemed to be a bigger loss.

Have faith OP. The economics of AI will replace most of the people over the next 10 years. The pressure will raise the bar for the rest.

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