For your amusement

Like me, you’re no doubt reeling from the revelation that Beatrix Potter’s “The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse” is actually a diatribe against consultants. According to the FT, she eventually narrows the door so that Mr Jackson, a toad, cannot get in, a strategy Greg Dyke, former Director General of the BBC, says is the ideal way to deal with consultants.

Organisations may need new inspiration and ideas, but the marketing departments of many consulting firms don’t seem to have noticed. In our daily grind at sourceforconsulting.com, we inevitably see a lot of firms’ marketing material and it’s rare that we see anything distinctive.