Commando Consulting November 2010: Ten Causes of Low Morale in Consulting Firms

Have you heard that in the years of yore people believed that certain colours could help to fight the evil spirits that had the nasty tendency of lurking over nurseries?

And since blue was the colour of "heavenly spirits", parents started dressing their boys in blue.

And what about girls?

First they were dressed in black, and then from the Middle Ages, they were dressed in pink.

And what happened to boys who got dressed in pink for some inexplicable reason?

That created a bit of a self-esteem problem which led to morale issues.

We can observe similar morale nosedives in many consulting firms, triggered by various events.

It seems the whole firm is dressed in pink.

And this is the topic we're going to dissect in this month's bottom-achingly exciting episode of Commando Consulting, entitled, Ten Causes of Low Morale in Consulting Firms.