ABSTRACT
The consultant’s turf may be described as lumpy or bumpy rather than smooth. Things have a way of zigging and zagging at unexpected times. Multitudinous details— technological demands, ambitions, political ploys as well as collaboration in the face of opposed interests, personal misfortunes and disappointments, and surprises of all sorts— impact on the work site. Hence the organizational road from here to there may meander this way and that, as it were, and then zip along precipitous inclines on hairpin turns. As noted, the turf is seldom smooth.
