Payback Comes In Unexpected Forms
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 9:24 am
About a year later, the Dean and I were interviewing candidates for the Director’s position in the program where I was consulting. I particularly liked one candidate, as did she, and he was hired. He was very impressive and I thought he would be great for the program. He was, and is.
Here’s where things get complicated for consultants. When a new head of a program is hired, the consultants usually are the first to go, because that new management person will want to bring in his/her own professional associates. I was convinced my tenure was about to end shortly. The new Director was very connected to the school, so I figured he had lots of people he would want to bring in to replace me.
We did hit it off, though, and began to significantly add to and build the program. We hong kong phone number library spent a great deal of time conceptualizing the growth of what evolved into a ground-breaking department in its field (and still is).
But I still wasn’t comfortable, even though my hours had increased.
Then, he changed our arrangement to put me on retainer – every consultant’s ultimate goal.
I began to realize that maybe I was going to stay.
One day I asked him why he had been so nice to the guy (me) who had been left over from the previous regime. He looked at me, puzzled, and asked, “Don’t you remember that you spent quite a long time with me on the phone a few years ago? You were really helpful.”
Here’s where things get complicated for consultants. When a new head of a program is hired, the consultants usually are the first to go, because that new management person will want to bring in his/her own professional associates. I was convinced my tenure was about to end shortly. The new Director was very connected to the school, so I figured he had lots of people he would want to bring in to replace me.
We did hit it off, though, and began to significantly add to and build the program. We hong kong phone number library spent a great deal of time conceptualizing the growth of what evolved into a ground-breaking department in its field (and still is).
But I still wasn’t comfortable, even though my hours had increased.
Then, he changed our arrangement to put me on retainer – every consultant’s ultimate goal.
I began to realize that maybe I was going to stay.
One day I asked him why he had been so nice to the guy (me) who had been left over from the previous regime. He looked at me, puzzled, and asked, “Don’t you remember that you spent quite a long time with me on the phone a few years ago? You were really helpful.”