I was corresponding with a few colleagues over the holiday weekend.
Most of the other folks with whom I work are like my style – which is probably why we work so well together.
Himal Mathew runs Fathom Strategies and he (or perhaps better, one of his clients) describes himself as an ‘un-consultant’. His client writes:
We think of you as the un-consultant. You work the way we work. You add value on our terms and feel like part of our team. Consider yourself part of our (corporate) family.
That’s the way we like to work. We’re key advisors and we know that we work at will for our clients. We want to feel like part of the family, take ownership of problems and help our clients succeed.
Himal’s client writes:
Wanted to loop back and let you know that we very much appreciated the candor of your reactions to our work. It was very helpful to get that objective voice in the room with us and one with such solid business and marketing skills. . . we will likely be calling on you again in the not too distant future. . . really felt the input was worthwhile from our standpoint.
Job satisfaction in our kind of un-consulting comes from statements such as these: ‘we will be calling on you again in the not too distant future.’
We know you have a choice. Fathom Strategies one of the associated firms that we enjoy working with.