So wait, doesn’t the existence of consultants imply a lack of business trust in employees?

The Context Of Things

A couple of quick stories before we get going here:

1. Used to work with a kid who hated the sheer idea of consultants (like someone in Office Space). Whenever something happened in his office, he’d snark to the senior leaders, “You should put a consultant on it.” I saw him say that to a CFO-type when the CFO was looking at some rain that had accumulated under a door to an outside patio. I LOL’ed.

2. I personally don’t 100 percent understand what consultants do. In 2005, I stayed with my cousin in Boston for 2-3 days. He was a consultant at the time. He apparently was always flying to Kansas City to, well, “consult.” At the time I was very young (24) and stupid (-er than I am now) and kept thinking to myself, “Wait, what? Why wouldn’t a company just deal with their own problems? Why…

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