Resultsmanship: A Seal of Consultancy Excellence - 10 November 2008

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."  John Quincy Adams

Not so long ago, leadership of the kind described by Adams, used to be associated with the cadre of competent and inspirational executives who were considered qualified to join the management consultancy profession.

But today, academic qualifications, ambition and do whatever it takes to get to the top dispositions have become rather more dominant currency in management consultancy.  That is why from consultancy clients' perspective management consultancy is more of a profession in name - not necessarily in nature.  

This common perception can be hard to swallow for those competent professional consultants who have witnessed parts of their profession be hijacked by those sections who place maximising fees above integrity and clients' best interests.  

It can be hard to give up a lucrative business model when clients appear to be conveniently stuck in the traditional spending merry-go-round.   History has often shown that often heavy advertising spend and a reluctance to air grievances in public will sustain demand.  Yet, in a parallel industry,  we are now all living with the predictable and foretold consequences of the financial sectors' addiction to putting their profits above their purported professional principles.

Management consultancy firms, we believe, should take advantage of the current down-turn to reacquaint themselves the founding principles of the profession and to renew their corporate cultures to solely act in clients best interests.

The Resultancy Fellowship  offers professional services firms a corporate transformation service to attain Resultsmanship status, the highest seal of verifiable professional excellence. 

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