What's a hack in your industry that customers aren't supposed to find out?
consulting: we don't know either.
As a consultant for 15 years, we are good at bullshitting our way into you giving us the answer and then just spouting it back in different words.
Explains why I could never bring myself to go into consulting. . . I don't have a single bullshitting bone in me. Imposter syndrome stops me from even trying
Bullshitting isn’t the right word for good consultants. We take input from all levels of the org, take the direction from leadership, our broad knowledge of how that type of business is run, the specific knowledge of how all the previous clients actually ran it, and devise a strategy that works for that company within their limitations. Sometimes because of specific leadership requirements that means just parroting back what they said with a few tweaks here and there. Usually it’s more complex. Most of the time someone can look at the output and say “no shit”, but the thing is no one has taken the time to organize all the data, review the goals, and then propose that solution until that point.