How Consultant-friendly are your clients?

Very slow to take a decision to choose between two alternatives, very poor response to make the balance payment on work completion inspite of a written agreement.

These guys were rather scared of what could possibly happen with their company post 2008. They brought in a group of consultants of which one was me. I found that they had the resources and that they really had nothing to worry about other than their image; however, they were paranoid about losing any more money whether it be through people taking out their money etc. This paranoia proved difficult to work with.

I was brought in with a group of individuals to see where the overall university could be streamlined from the expansive bureaucratic state that it was in. The people with whom I was working were quite easy-going and laid back; however, their end goal was to streamline the process and they were very bureaucratic about it - it reminded me of a political game being handled by the upper levels of individuals.

In the end, we were able to work together instead of just me implementing their ideas.

Nice guys and very cooperative, I had a great time working with these individuals.

Working within the financial services industry was a lot was a lot more painful than I had imagined it to be. I had worked on the strategy of the firm, especially after the Financial Crisis of '08 where people did not trust the companies as a safe haven to store their money. With that being said, we were told that we needed to do x, y, z by the company's management. There was literally no leeway - they would not listen to anything that we would recommend even after coming up with conclusions that would drive the opposite.

In the end, we had to stick with the company management's decision. Miserable.