Pity the consultant.
More things to remember when you work with a consultant.
Consultants are not elastic. They are usually lone wolves.
When these poor wolves get hungry, they hunt. When they find a little food, they eat. When they find a LOT of food, they are pressured to eat it all. There are no other wolves to whom to delegate the eating.
But they can’t eat it all at once. Only so much gastric bandwidth. So they eat what their bandwidth allows; and they hope that the stuff they eat last does not spoil (or get stolen) before they get to it.
And then the food is gone, and the wolves are hungry again.
And so it goes …
Not so much feast or famine. It’s more like “flow control.” Or lack thereof.
Consultants all wish that the phone would ring when they are slow; and that the phone would go away when they are busy. You clients need to get together and organize your collective priorities. And then dose your work out in an orderly fashion.
Consultants dream of being busy all the time; being un-busy only on weekends; and being too busy never.
If only the work came in that way.
