Roxanne Abbas said:
>Independent consulting is a much better fit for me and it seems for many,
>many other people. In fact, most independent consultants that I talk to
>are emphatic that they would NEVER go back to corporate life. On first
>reading, James' statement "Those who can, do. Those who can't, consult.",
>sounded like an indictment of consultants as lesser beings, but I've come
>to believe that we're simply different. And if we were truly so inferior
>to those within the corporation, why do corporations pay us so much?
And such is your mental model. My own spent some years as a consultant
and came up with a need to be a part of a community of practice, or as I
tell myself, a need to have a factory wrapped around me. I love to build
teams which become communities and produce goods which the rest of you are
happy with. The complexity of the Triprol and the extended enterprise
planning system makes me happy.
Most of my friends, and many colleagues see me as a consultant or a
professor, some as a poet or sculptor. For me, there is nothing more
wonderful than seeing people standing at the man-machine interface,
smiling, saying, "hey John, I had an idea about this loader last night..."
I love factories, and as a consultant, I spent too much time in offices
and too little on the factory floor where wealth is created.
John
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