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[featherynscale]

The company I work for has engaged an organizational development consultant to help work out its performance and management issues. Having spent most of the day yesterday meeting with said consultant and going over said consultant's materials, I have determined that I have missed my career calling. This woman is making upwards of $25,000 from us, and has left us with a training manual that is fairly content-sparse and shows that her understanding of her own testing instruments is not very good.

Heh. Maybe in my copious free time, I'll write a corporate development book... Then Nine Fires can publish it, and I can quit this gig and instead, wander around and tell people what to do. Hehe.

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[lightonthesill.livejournal.com]

Ya know...Miss Darci and I used to conspire that that was what we were going to do. It's a serious racket - and if you've got the skills (which you do) it would certainly be a doorway to a small consulting buisness.

It's no good...

[wildnsquirrelly.livejournal.com]

It'll never work. Your name isn't "Bob". :D

Re: It's no good...

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Says who?

Re: It's no good...

[wildnsquirrelly.livejournal.com]

I'm going to go out on a limb (no pun intended) and suggest your name tag for one. Not to mention various existing legal documents and instruments of identification.

Re: It's no good...

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Sure. But "Bob" could write the book, if necessary, with me as co-author. Then I'm out in the field as "Bob"'s partner.

It's not without precedent. N.W. Ayers & Son, probably the first major advertising agency in the United States, was begun by a single guy who felt he was too young to be taken seriously -- he ran the business as if it were his (deceased) father's for years, always telling clients that Ayers Senior was away on business or otherwise unavailable, but he, Ayers Junior, would be glad to take care of them.

Like Guiness, Brilliant!

[wildnsquirrelly.livejournal.com]

I give. Anyone *that* snea- er, resourceful would undoubtedly have my business.

[teross50.livejournal.com]

The thing I liked about watching the efficiencymanagement engineering consultants coming was even the good ones who left great outlines The companies wree never really willing to change beyond a mere comfort level and the consultant got paid megabucks The company just used the consultant to show See we are open to change and communication Ya it is a great bullshit market Hook up with saffronhare and have fionnabhr write the book and there ya go a new enterprise very very profitable Some companies might actually use your suggestions even LOL

A better mouse trap...

[wildnsquirrelly.livejournal.com]

Be sure to include some enticing pictures in that book of yours & the corporate world will beat a path to your door. Maybe they'll do it with a shrubberies! One would of course be set slightly higher so you get the two-level effect...>:)

That's just a straight-shooter with upper management written all over her.

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

*snicker*

I'm actually picturing you a la' one of Lucy Liu's disguise in the first Charlie's Angels, as an efficiency expert. High heels, fishnets, leather dress, and a whip. Who wouldn't fall in line? And now I've got "Barracuda" by Heart running through my head....;)