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Sunday, July 21, 2019

Why consultancy should never be free or cheap, or why sometimes it wont work

Ateneo Professor on Entrepreneurship

Rizal Philippines
July 21, 2019


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I have been engaged in several lectures, joining leading strategic conference workshops and engaged in consultancy.  These are some of my observations/consultation

1.  A cheap consultancy fee  or pro bono ones will not work. Since it costs the company zero or since it is
     cheap, the top management or the organization will not value it and hence will not pay attention

2.  You conduct a training session and the  participants go back to the same situation, nothing will change
     unless there is a change in culture or environment

3. Change is not a one shot one day deal.  It takes time and perseverance to achieve this.

4.  The ego of the founder or the  top management will come into play.  "Those were the days"  Bakit mas marunong pa iyang outsider sa atin.

Remember, as in the classroom, the protagonist, the  student, the owner  will only accept what he wants to accept.  Its what he accepts and buys that counts not what you teach.

Sometimes for the consultants who do not understand well the company situation, and/or its uniqueness, they will come out with copy paste soltuion ie -  this has worked before in other companies, it may work for you.  Each problem and difficulty is unique (even the family owner dynamics will be strategic issue) and takes a long time to resolve and implement.

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