{"id":8932,"date":"2022-05-04T11:50:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T10:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/the-new-realism-changing-the-way-we-talk-about-consulting-2"},"modified":"2025-09-02T19:13:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T18:13:29","slug":"the-new-realism-changing-the-way-we-talk-about-consulting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/blog-post\/the-new-realism-changing-the-way-we-talk-about-consulting-2","title":{"rendered":"The new realism: Changing the way we talk about consulting\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Clients want consultants to stop selling promises. Really? <\/p>\n<p> \u201cI get so frustrated with consulting firms,\u201d commented the CIO of a Wisconsin-based manufacturing company we interviewed a couple of years ago. \u201cThey always operate at 30,000 feet, but many of the problems we face\u2014and I deal with daily\u2014are down in the weeds. I need consultants to be in the weeds more.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p> He\u2019s being unfair, because the problem doesn\u2019t start with consultants. Decades of business school thinking has kept strategy and execution apart. The first is about the big, clear, simple ideas that will propel an organisation forward, but takes no or little account of what it takes to make that happen. As a result, many strategies are nice sounding but meaningless with unachievable slogans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[207,203],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8932"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15798,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8932\/revisions\/15798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}