Dear fellow Academy member,
Martin Kornberger, Stewart Clegg and I are in the process of writing a
paper on consultants. We would like to know if you would be willing to
participate in some preliminary 'research' which will not take more than
5 minutes of your time.
All that is required of you is to reply to me personally at
tyrone.pitsis@uts.edu.au and address the following:
As part of our research into organization cognition and consulting we
are looking at interesting, pertinent and/or humorous definitions,
stories, jokes or fables about consultants. For example, some people
have defined a consultant as someone who asks to borrow your watch to
tell you the time, charges you an exorbitant fee, and leaves without
returning the watch to you. Things like that!
Please tell us about a definition/story/anecdote/joke you have heard and
like about management consultants.
I will post the best ones on my website and send you a copy of the paper
once we are done - if you like.
I thank you in advance and look forward to hearing (cybernetically
speaking, of course) from you.
Tyrone S. Pitsis
School of Management
University of Technology, Sydney