Market conditions

Between the idea

And the reality

Between the motion

And the act

Falls the shadow

This is the fifth in my series of blogs looking at the prospects for different segments within the consulting industry.

“To generalise is to be an idiot,” wrote the 18^th century poet and visionary, William Blake.  “To particularlise is the alone distinction of merit.  General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.”

Contrary to how it seemed to be reported in Norway's leading daily business publication, Dagens Naeringsliv, my opinion of the Nordic consulting market is not that it's locked in a hideous death spiral as clients swing the axe at the heads of the merciless money-grabbing consultants who want to bleed them, and their businesses, dry.