Enterprise Meeting Enablement
We sit with you — in your meetings — and confirm that they are, in fact, happening. Then we schedule the next one. $420/hr.
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CONFIRMATION BY US: Professional Estimation Validation Services
The number is out there. It has stakeholders. What you need isn't an estimate—you need confirmation.
The Great Rift Valley Incident: Confessions of the Ant Observer
The alien researcher reveals the truth: he wasn't just observing Derek. He WAS the ant narrator studying the consultant paradox—watching a species that can explain optimization but cannot recognize its own catastrophic failures.
The Great Rift Valley Incident: Part 4 - Legacy
Week four. The tribe has abandoned Derek's system entirely and returned to their old ways. Hunting efficiency recovers immediately. Derek vanishes as mysteriously as he arrived, leaving behind only KPI dashboards and trauma.
The Great Rift Valley Incident: Part 3 - The Crisis
Week two. Hunting efficiency is down 43%. The tribe is starving. Derek's solution? More metrics. More dashboards. More meetings about why the meetings aren't working. Surely this time it will be different.
The Great Rift Valley Incident: Part 2 - The Implementation
Derek implements Lean Six Sigma on hunter-gatherers. By week one, hunting efficiency has dropped 31%. The tribe is confused, hungry, and filling out incident reports on gazelle escapes. Derek calls this progress.
The Great Rift Valley Incident: Part 1 - First Contact
Derek Hutchins, management consultant, materializes in prehistoric Africa with a laptop, three days of business casual wear, and absolutely no idea how he got there. The hunter-gatherers stare. He checks his email. This will not end well.