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The Case for Consultants

by Jeff Gainer

According to the tired old joke, a consultant is someone you pay to look at your watch so that he or she can tell you what time it is. As a consultant, I would agree with this analogy only so far as to say that if the client has grown so accustomed to looking at his or her watch that he or she has forgotten how to read it, then yes, it is accurate.

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The Case for Consultants 12 February 2003

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