Are You Growing Your Consulting Firm For Show or Dough?
Consulting firms are drastically different from industrial organisations, yet many firm leaders try to grow their firms as if they were industrial companies churning out widgets by the bushel.
As a result, far too many consulting firms accumulate high levels of "organisational fat", which may look impressive on the surface, but when we dig deeper, we'll see it only consumes the "real muscle" of the firm.
So, are you building your firm for size or profit?
To demonstrate how this difference relates to the growth of consulting firms, let’s talk about how weight training builds muscle in humans because there are a dangerously high number of consulting firms that grow the wrong way.
And this is what we discuss in this month's brain-fryingly exciting episode of Commando Consulting, entitled, Are You Growing Your Consulting Firm For Show or Dough?
Enjoy!
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