[paulsutter]

Bill. Sometimes hourly, sometimes by project.

They wake up every morning hell bent on maintaining existing customer accounts, growing existing accounts, and sometimes adding a new account. They maintain a professional demeanor, with just the right kind of smalltalk. Finally, they produce a report that justifies whatever was the decision that the CEO already made before he engaged the consultants

Thats pretty much the whole job

[sockaddr]

Yeah I’ve struggled to understand what people mean by consultant and once heard that it was basically a person or group you can hire to take the blame for an unpopular decision and/or to weaponize it against others in the company since it was “someone else” that made the call.