Very often I break a simple rule of consultancy, I fix something I wasn't asked to do. For example, I may be drafted in by a company to bring a project back on track or, sometimes, to teach object technologies (I like this type of work). However, if you are working with a group of people and one of them is incompetent or destructive then that, by definition, is the problem you have to solve first. What this means is that you end up doing a little bit of behaviour changing or some management consulting.

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