{"id":9702,"date":"2019-09-13T00:02:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T04:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9702"},"modified":"2019-09-13T00:02:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T04:02:09","slug":"dilbert-and-the-consultant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9702","title":{"rendered":"Dilbert and the consultant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite cartoons are Kliban&#8217;s cats, but the Dilbert comic strips represent a close second.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Dilbert offers a perfect demonstration why.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dilbert.com\/strip\/2019-09-12\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9703\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/dt190912.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I could actually be the consultant that Dilbert&#8217;s pointy-haired boss is looking for. Over the years, I learned one very important thing about this business: As a consultant, my job is to offer my best advice to my customer, but then whatever decision they make, it&#8217;s theirs to make, not mine. My job is to continue supporting them to the best of my abilities.<\/p>\n<p>In my career, I have seen customers make bad decisions that destroyed their projects. I offered my advice. When it was ignored, I did not take it personally. Neither that nor judging the customer are part of my job description. That is not to say that I do not feel regret, or that I did not often second-guess myself: Could I have offered better advice? Could I have been more convincing? Why was my advice not accepted?<\/p>\n<p>But judging? Nope. That would be rather unprofessional.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9702' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite cartoons are Kliban&#8217;s cats, but the Dilbert comic strips represent a close second. Today&#8217;s Dilbert offers a perfect demonstration why. I could actually be the consultant that Dilbert&#8217;s pointy-haired boss is looking for. Over the years, I learned one very important thing about this business: As a consultant, my job is to offer <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9702' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,35,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-personal","category-programming","category-11-id","category-35-id","category-36-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9705,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9702\/revisions\/9705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}