{"id":477,"date":"2010-07-01T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T10:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/ideasdigest\/?p=477"},"modified":"2010-07-01T09:57:41","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T08:57:41","slug":"how-to-be-your-own-management-consultant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/how-to-be-your-own-management-consultant\/","title":{"rendered":"How to be your own management consultant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consultants are much in the news at the moment &#8211; and\u00a0it&#8217;s not a good press they are receiving.<\/p>\n<p>We define a consultant as someone who provides guidance and advice, often at a strategic level \u2013 in contrast to trainers, researchers, lawyers, facilitators, accountants.<\/p>\n<p>A few have mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/articles\/how_mgt_consultant.shtml\">this early article of ours from 2006<\/a>.\u00a0 In it, we share some lessons for a DIY approach to consulting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consultants are much in the news at the moment &#8211; and\u00a0it&#8217;s not a good press they are receiving. We define a consultant as someone who provides guidance and advice, often at a strategic level \u2013 in contrast to trainers, researchers, lawyers, facilitators, accountants. A few have mentioned this early article of ours from 2006.\u00a0 In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[98,103,67,47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}