I get the impression that you do organizational consulting. I have been in various business environments where I watched organizational consultants work from my perspective as an employee.
I am curious how your approach and ethics let you handle:
emperor wears no clothes organizational problems: everyone seems to think some X is really great, but X is a fiction and only you see that.
elephant in the room communication situations: there’s something everyone knows about, fears, and won’t talk about and it’s the problem that needs handling.
covert consulting needs: you’re consulting, but the problems are so obviously related to leadership or the organization, that you either leave or create organizational change covertly despite whatever management identified as problems to fix.
These situations were a test of consultant integrity, from what I saw, but they also show up in everyday life, where fictions, secrets, or politics conflict with desire for integrity.
Really interesting!
I get the impression that you do organizational consulting. I have been in various business environments where I watched organizational consultants work from my perspective as an employee.
I am curious how your approach and ethics let you handle:
emperor wears no clothes organizational problems: everyone seems to think some X is really great, but X is a fiction and only you see that.
elephant in the room communication situations: there’s something everyone knows about, fears, and won’t talk about and it’s the problem that needs handling.
covert consulting needs: you’re consulting, but the problems are so obviously related to leadership or the organization, that you either leave or create organizational change covertly despite whatever management identified as problems to fix.
These situations were a test of consultant integrity, from what I saw, but they also show up in everyday life, where fictions, secrets, or politics conflict with desire for integrity.