There are hundreds of varieties of Consultants these days. We can come across Consultants to take care of our diets, our physical well getting, our mental properly getting, and fairly significantly anything you can envision when it comes to business.
The story below might just indicate that we take ourselves a small too seriously occasionally.
A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand new Beemer advanced out of the dust clouds towards him. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses, and a Zegna tie, leaned out his window and asked the shepherd, "If I can tell you specifically how a lot of sheep you have in your flock, will you give me 1?"
The shepherd looked at the man, then looked at his peacefully grazing flock, and calmly answered, "Sure."
The yuppie parked his car, whipped out his IBM ThinkPad, connected it to a cell phone, and surfed to a NASA page on the Web. He called up a GPS satellite navigation technique, scanned the location, and then opened each a database, and an Excel spreadsheet with complicated macro formulas. He then sent an e-mail on his Blackberry, and following a couple of minutes he received a response. Lastly, he prints out a 150-page report on his hi-tech miniaturized printer in the vehicle, then turns to the shepherd and says, "You have precisely 1623 sheep."
"That is right, take one of the sheep" stated the shepherd. He then watches the young man choose one of the animals and bundle it into his vehicle. Then the shepherd says, " If I can tell you exactly what you do for a living, will you give me back my beast?"
"O.K., why not?" answered the man.
"Clearly you are a consultant" sad the shepherd. "That's right," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"
"No guessing needed," answered the shepherd. "You turned up here, despite the fact that no one named you. You want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I in no way asked, and you do not know a thing about my enterprise. Now give me back my dog."
The lesson appears to be to preserve my Consulting assignment to the points I know about. I believe I'm safe because sheep scare me.