Hmmmm. This seems like an improvement over the all-too-common practice of
blaming the client, but is it the best possible approach? It could also
motivate the consultant to start beating him/herself up about something
that is beyond his/her unilateral control. It seems to me that whatever
is happening is *co-created* by the consultant and the organization and
that the responsibility is shared. Neither can take unilateral action to
solve the problem. "Moving the problem to [the consultant]" seems to
reinforce the illusion that the consultant is there to do something
heroic, set things straight, give enlightenment, use effective methods on
people, etc. This attitude may well be at the root of why the project is
going awry -- the heroic "expert" unilaterally decided what the
organization needed and the organization happily colluded by giving away
its responsibility for thinking. In that case, the consultant's simply
guessing again won't help.
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