…f management consulting is that any model proposed as a solution doesn’t actually matter that much. You can offer any number of “4 steps”, “5 forces” or “6 pillars” model to organizational awesomeness, and provided you package it properly, it will be enthusiastically adopted, adored and fetishized. The trick to this lies in painting a rosy picture of certainty, order and control — a future state free of ambiguity. Borrowing from Pamela Matthews, smart consultancies do the following:
…ot a problem in itself. Indeed, it is a key part of the process of learning and gaining experience. If you are a project manager, chances are you may have “clutched” the PMBOK (or some other similar PM tome) when you were a newbie. The important thing is that such supporting objects should eventually be let go of once a person gains confidence and maturity. Most kids eventually let go of their teddies… but some do not.
uity-fueled anxieties. For grown…one is holding one or more conceptual ones to help them cope with their ambiguity-fueled anxieties. For grown-ups in the corporate playground, their teddies are things such as processes, tools, techniques, methodologies or even people (such as Big Q consultants or your fav management author :).