Feb 2, 2011 Posted by John MacIntyre

Consultants are advisors, not decision makers.

Overview I was having lunch with my friend & colleague last week and we had a disagreement about whose decision it is to make a change when you see something wrong in the client’s software. Mechanic analogy My colleague used an analogy about a mechanic; it was a good one, so I’ll use it here. Let’s say you bring your car in for a $30 oil change, and your mechanic notices a problem with the... read more

Mar 15, 2009 Posted by John MacIntyre

Obviously unethical consulting … but why?

… and with this, my rational mind kicked in and argued that as an ‘Entrepreneur’, isn’t this exactly what I was supposed to be doing? Trying to make as much money as quickly as possible, while minimizing my costs? Isn’t that what business is all about? Isn’t this providing the customer more value faster? Maybe this is the way to go! Think about it; StarBucks is praised for quadrupling the price of a cup of coffee by adding foam … foam! … Air with a thin milk film separating the $5.00 air from the free air. How is it StarBucks is praised for selling foam, while what I described above is clearly wrong? To be honest, I had a very tough struggle with this …

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