Implementation consulting is just white collar coal mining. Change my mind

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Orrrrr, you write a thoughtful piece about your views on implementation consulting and we can provide constructive feedback and discuss the pros and cons like adults?

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Sir, in this town square I say what I want. You’re welcome to provide a detailed analysis via ppt, cite your sources, and review with me on zoom. I kid, stay breezy

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I doubt OP has ever worked a full shift performing manual labor.

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No meme, plz implement.

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The liver disease caused by heavy drinking with consulting is self inflicted, black lung is not.

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Coal miners get black lung....

It isn't from smoking.

This is not a meme. Please post to the appropriate bowl

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THIS IS BRILLIANT....why is everyone here so sensitive lol

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There are many flavors of implementation

Always depends on the flavor you are implementing.

Go work in a coal mine and report back.

I don't recall anyone on an implementation project ever worrying about a mine collapse.

Have had family members live through and become injured in a collapse.

But you know same thing.

“Without action, the world would be just an idea”. John Doriot, Founder of INSEAD.

Ironically, despite his B school being the biggest feeder for MBB in Europe, his most famous quotation essentially undermines jobs that only propose ideas and do not deliver action.

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