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If after a ten minute conversation I can’t get someone to stop using trademarked phrases, made up words with too many hyphens, or concede some of their clients get less value out of their efforts than they claim, I can only conclude they’re nuts.
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"sample contracts for freelance work to modify, especially the engagement agreement to have a client sign. A few articles on borderline-bogus IT consulting pitches and firms, starting from Scott Berkun's The Problem(s) With Consultants (he is himself one, but more of a writer/speaker these days), Cringley's Truth About IT Consultants, and The Half-Truth About Consultants. Don't be one of these kinds of consultants. My observation on consulting is that a lot of jobs and clients are"
" often moves around a vicious eco-system. If consultants who are iterating in this loop are using excessive jargons it?s probably because the entire eco-system encourages them to do so. In his same article Scott Berkun describes how the eco-system encourages this crap: "
" Having consultant on my list of former titles I cannot agree more with the frustrations Scott describes here. "
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