HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR CONSULTANT

Abstract

Consultants' reports have been compared to the illuminated manuscripts of medieval times, both having been made and produced at great cost and both existing for the most part unread and under lock and key. Collectors' pieces of the next millennium, expensively bound, composed on electric typewriters, reproduced on heavy paper, lavishly illustrated with pull‐out charts, these are masterpieces of presentation and a source of legitimate pride to owners as well as to authors. And well they may be if the object of consultancy is the production of reports—but is it? Indeed, are written reports an essential part of the activity?

Citation

FISHER, N. (1967), "HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR CONSULTANT", Management Decision, Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 60-63. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb000778