This has nothing to do with the Libra zodiac sign. To me, this is a sort of life’s objective metaphor. It’s always about getting the right balance: our weight, consumption of alcohol, less cigarettes, the turnover, the salary and so on.
For managers, it’s all about getting a proper work/life balance. Indeed, they are real hard workers. At least it’s what they say. And then, it’s about balancing their turnovers in terms of account, consultants and clients. If there are as many consultants as clients, then, it looks good. You will see them parading with all their white teeth out and their phoney smiles. Of course, they are too busy to talk to you. Less clients with lots of consultants paid on doing nothing say it all about the manager’s competence. Business development managers wouldn’t share my point of view, to them, a consultant on no mission is an unprofessional and bad consultant.
For consultants, it’s also about getting a proper work/life balance. But unlike the managers, they should work more. They should also balance their ambitions, which are always getting a big salary, even juniors complained about salaries after few months. It’s very annoying for the managers. The consultants also seek a balance between their missions and their career development. In time of economical crisis, literally speaking, a manager would send the consultants to provide any type of services to any clients.
Generally speaking, life is permanently unbalanced. Every time we get up in the morning, every time we are out there at work or in a pub, everything we always do serves only one purpose: trying out to balance our lives. It’s debatable, and I’m willing to explain it more to managers. Of course, in some cases, some people have given up on that ambition. Some people are defeated by life.
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Nothing to do with the Christian dogma, a consulting company is worshiping a different religion, which is based upon the balance between the consultants and clients with both managed by someone who call herself (himself) a business development manager.
Unlike the circle of the pimp, the prostitutes and the clients, where one sells a service provided by the other to the most offering clients, the consulting companies are slightly different. A manager would say it best: first, it values its senior employee. Second, it offers a real career development for the consultants.
The good, the bad and the ugly were interdependent, and so are the consultants, the managers and the clients. But it’s not comparable since in one case; one would triumph over the 2 others, and in the other case; the interdependence is based on a win-win relationship.
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By passion, by career plan, or by default they all come one day. They just show up. They come for the tremendous opportunity, believing that in no other place, one person can accomplish so much with talent, initiative and a good idea….
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After his Masters honours degree in Electronic engineering with Business and Management in York , Jens has been working as a consultant for various companies in The Netherlands and Germany for almost 5 years. And just one day, his business mind has triumphed over his current consulting job, which anyway never gave him neither satisfaction or great career perspective that would meet his big ambition. He just realized that by starting his own business, he would combine fun and freedom with hard works, but at least he does it for something he actually likes and believes. As a consultant for a consulting company, he didn’t stand any chance to become a millionaire. Now, as the General Director of his company, he owns the vision for his future, he has become the great architect of his life.
He doesn’t hold any grudge on those managers who assigned him on some missions, that we can say clearly were insult of his intelligence. Would you believe it that a consulting company has fired him just few minutes after he started his work due to some global economical crisis? He said no more consulting companies.
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The objective of this blog is to extend the ideas developed in my book, which is an inside view, a sort of subjective camera, on consulting companies and its different actors such as managers, clients and most of all the consultants.
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