About My Job: The Management Consultant

by Conor Friedersdorf

A reader writes:

I'm a management consultant.   In particular, I help companies grow and find new business opportunities and launch them. Consultants are reviled in the business community, in the media, in movies, and often in the businesses we've been hired to help.  We're seen as highly-paid professional hit-men who come in and snidely boss around people who know their businesses best, and who are we to tell them what to do?  Worse than that, there are companies who are...