When I inventory my consultant friends, most are in the outer+confidence-building world. I don’t know many people offering inner world services mainly because they mostly rub me the wrong way (lemon market operators) and piss me off. The few I know are actually good at it.
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If you want to break into this indie consulting game, figure out what you’re best at providing. If you’re buying, clarify what you’re looking for and don’t look for incompatible support types from a single person. There are no good “platform” consultants who can do it all.
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I'll add a couple more points. The zeitgeist drives the market far more than you'd think. The last couple of years have not been good for selling "systematic doubt." Systematic confidence otoh, has been selling like crazy.
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So "systematic doubt" is declining from a small base, while "systematic confidence" is growing from an already big base. The market is both cyclic and asymmetric. The market for systematic doubt grows/strengthens during high confidence zeitgeist periods, but is never big.
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It's been down about 10% YOY over the last 3 years in the US since Trump's rise began basically. I was lucky I got my start in a very confident era (2011-15, zeitgeist coming out mostly strong and confident from the recession)
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Adding canonical book references for the 4 quadrants in response to a question. If you can't afford to hire people, read these books.
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Outer doubt: Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy, Discworld, Discordianism
Outer confidence: Getting Things Done, Inner Game of Tennis
Inner doubt: Finite and infinite games
Inner confidence: Impro, War of Art
(these are generic; there are domain specific-ones in each too) twitter.com/rrherr/status/…
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Lol, one reason my market is so small is that people who rely on hitchhiker's guide type material for help with life/career/management/leadership problems are unlikely to make it to high levels in orgs or be entrepreneurs. Fortunately enough make it through to provide me a living
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I’d pay someone who could help me be more hedgehog, but I’m very skeptical that such a consultant exists.
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I’m being a bit glib. I’m not sure GTD fits this scheme well.
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