When a client hires you for your consulting expertise and then doesn't follow your advice....instead they hire another consultant who gives the same advice and suddenly 💡🙄

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My fave was when my org brought in B4 consultants( one set from each firm) to audit our top four programs. I was the program manager for the #2 program. I turned over all of my documents except for my raid log. After they had finished their assessment and provided their top 10 key findings, I presented my top 10 raid items and they matched almost identically. $150k well spent and a big thank you for the additional street cred 😂

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Clients like that irk me. They also usually don’t want to pay bills for perfectly good advice they specifically asked for

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Lol. I feel like that is more often the norm than the exception 🤦🏼‍♀️

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