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• Consultants are mystical people who ask a company for a number and then give it back to them.
• Consultants are mystical people who ask a company for a number and then give it back to them.
  -- MacDonald's Second Law...
• People seldom know what they want until you give them what they ask for.
• When forecasting, give them a number or give them a date, but never both.
• The Next Big Thing: "Clairvoyant Consultants" Nobody likes to deal with tech support or customer service reps.
  A growing number of people are getting sick of being put on hold for three hours and then paying ridiculous "per incident" fees so some Microserf can tell them to "reinstall the operating system!...
• Interestingly enough, there are many kids who just can't seem to get their multiplication tables down, some of whom can't even add, for that matter.
  But ask them a phone number, and whammo, you've got the whole thing instantly....