> “I think that without owning something over an extended period of time, like a few years, where someone has a chance to take responsibility for one’s recommendations, where one has to see one’s recommendations through all action stages and accumulate some scar tissue for the mistakes and pick one’s self up off the ground and dust one’s self off, one learns a fraction of what one can,” Jobs said. “You do get a broad cut at companies, but it’s very thin.”
> “You never get three-dimensional,” he said. “You might have a lot of pictures on your wall, you can say ‘Look, I’ve worked in bananas, I’ve worked in peaches, I’ve worked in grapes.’ But you never really taste it.”
His view on Consulting is pretty interesting. Any consultants here who'd like to give the other perspective?
I agree with his view on consultants from my own experience. I've never been a consultant, but in the last 10 years, I have been a "job hopper", but only because companies refuse to give market based raises and the best way to get a "raise" is to get a new job.
I've met consultants who have described it as sort of 'addictive' for people with ADD, mainly because they get to feel like they are in the middle of some big drama, for a short time, too short usually to really own the problem, then the engagement is over and they go on to the next thing.
The nature of consulting in my experience is such that a consultant will generally not have enough skin in the game, to use NNT's well-known phrase, to be able to deliver an out-sized outcome for the client, or to deliver an expensive but important life lesson for the consultant, if things go south.
> “You never get three-dimensional,” he said. “You might have a lot of pictures on your wall, you can say ‘Look, I’ve worked in bananas, I’ve worked in peaches, I’ve worked in grapes.’ But you never really taste it.”
His view on Consulting is pretty interesting. Any consultants here who'd like to give the other perspective?
http://mitsloan.mit.edu/newsroom/articles/steve-jobs-talks-c...