Monday musings.
This one cracked me up, cartoon by Sunil Agarwal in The Times Of India newspaper dt 29 Sep. ‘25
While it was my B-School dream to work for one of the top Consulting firms, destiny had other plans for me even as I run my owm firm on its 11th year, quite successfully.
Till date, several employees of our Clients feel that we are really NOT required for their Organisation and that they could do well by themselves
How could they be told, I wonder that Consultants (and not just us) are brought in for a purpose and not because Business Owners or Boards of Directors are floating with extra cash!
In fact, we are the last to be paid, after their Bankers, external Creditors, employees, themselves, key Vendors, etc. in that order.
NO - this cartoon is NOT funny.
Whether it is McKinsey & Company or Miles2Go Consulting Services - we are hired for a reason. And with a conviction by Business Owners.
And Clients mostly hire us for interventional Consulting, to solve specific, short-term business challenges and not to hang around like employees and office furniture for a lifetime.
So, whether you work for Accenture or Bain & Company or Boston Consulting Group (BCG) , EY-Parthenon or KPMG India or run your own little boutique Consulting firm - we stand together on our purpose to bring a visible, measurable and positive change for our Clients within a defined timeframe.
Proud to be a living, working and running my firm as a Consultant with a sizeable team, notwithstanding this admonishment that is supposedly (not so) humourous!
