Kathryn J. Deiss / FrontPage. May I borrow your watch? - Home - Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk. Consultant: a person who when asked the time, borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets the watch, and sends you a bill for it.
Scott McLeod over at Dangerously Irrelevant recently ran a series of blog posts raising questions about experts, speakers and consultants. (See "Beware of outside consultants - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.) In the first two entries, Scott reports on questions raised about two nationally know figures, William Daggert and Ruby Payne, who have come under fire. Whether it comes as a result of methodology or conclusions, anyone who advocates for actual change will face criticism.