Saturday, September 26, 2009
Bridging the gap...
Note: Gyan
A man asked a consultant what’s time … the consultant took the man’s watch told him it’s 5 AM by the man’s watch.
There is popular perception on consultants just playing around with jargons and making noise with empty thoughts …
In the above case, I think the consultant is not wrong … it’s the question by the man is wrong. Consultants are intelligent and mean … (I don’t see any reason why they should not) … if the question comes what’s the time by your (consultant’s) watch … he would have response would have been more reasonable …
Another aspect came across while I was attending a training o strategy … it was that most of the consultant would provide info on problems and possible solutions … but they are not likely to be part of execution / delivery of the solution … and that’s where the gap lies … wrong execution of any idea would result in failure … because execution failed, the assumption goes that the strategy/ solution is wrong… however, I have different thoughts on that … most often, the delivery / execution team (which does not includes the consultant who provided the solution) do not understand the perspective/ thoughts behind the solution … they miss out the problem all together and fix up the symptoms and not the problem.
So how to bridge the gap … it’s actually simple … let the consultant lead the delivery from the thought leadership perspective … which would result in consultant working harder as he has to save his bottom … (after all he has given the solution) …
A man asked a consultant what’s time … the consultant took the man’s watch told him it’s 5 AM by the man’s watch.
There is popular perception on consultants just playing around with jargons and making noise with empty thoughts …
In the above case, I think the consultant is not wrong … it’s the question by the man is wrong. Consultants are intelligent and mean … (I don’t see any reason why they should not) … if the question comes what’s the time by your (consultant’s) watch … he would have response would have been more reasonable …
Another aspect came across while I was attending a training o strategy … it was that most of the consultant would provide info on problems and possible solutions … but they are not likely to be part of execution / delivery of the solution … and that’s where the gap lies … wrong execution of any idea would result in failure … because execution failed, the assumption goes that the strategy/ solution is wrong… however, I have different thoughts on that … most often, the delivery / execution team (which does not includes the consultant who provided the solution) do not understand the perspective/ thoughts behind the solution … they miss out the problem all together and fix up the symptoms and not the problem.
So how to bridge the gap … it’s actually simple … let the consultant lead the delivery from the thought leadership perspective … which would result in consultant working harder as he has to save his bottom … (after all he has given the solution) …
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