High risk and low time pressure is generally the combination of conditions that makes anything strategic.

Being easy to hire and retain, hard to fire, and acting to lock down your own income regardless of project outcome, makes you vulnerable to accusations of parasitism.

When the internal reality is deluded, consultants might inject an entirely unwelcome reality check. When external reality is deluded, consultants might contaminate a fragile island of deeper truth by injecting bad external thinking. In either case, we consultants represent informational risks and threats to the organizations we try to help and it’s

No, that’s not a differentiated offering. That’s a commodity offering putting on a nice suit.

The Great Truth of the People school is that subjective, internal realities (note the plural) are everything and objective reality is a matter of evolving consensus and dissensus.

The tell of the Integrator in Need is endemic mental health issues across activities. There is too much anxiety. There are communication problems everywhere. Relationships are fraying all over the place. Morale is plummeting.

The Explorer is a client who wants to build capacity for systematic doubt at an outer-world locus. They do this by constantly considering possibilities, alternative perspectives, and refactorings of worldviews. They tend to hire a sparring partner type of consultant who can constantly stress test their thinking and actions, and undermine their

They are vulnerable to their reality distortion fields being punctured by skeptical, informed scrutiny.

Niels Bohr defined a Great Truth as one whose negation is also a Great Truth.