Word: projected
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After her conference call, Wang meets with Mike to discuss, among other things, how to boost the interest and engagement of the client's employees. Wang and Mike decide that, in order to keep a particular staff member connected with the project, it is necessary to give him something...
...their "team dinner." They are disturbingly punctual, a characteristic I note on my list of consultant stereotypes, along with "overachiever" and "talks in bullet-points." Wang, the "business analyst" and most junior member of the team, chose the restaurant and puts the blame on Zagat's when Tom, the "project director" makes fun of the fancy French decor...
...Wang, accompanied by the rest of the consultants assigned to her project, meets me in the lobby at 7:44. We head over to the client's headquarters, about 15 minutes away from the hotel. Seven minutes later, Conrad (the marketing guy) pulls the rental car into the parking lot. The sprawling building before us looks too industrial to be the central office for a major manufacturing company. There is no "campus" a la Microsoft or Nike, no sculptured lawns or basketball courts. We enter the building and make our way through a sea of cubicles (c. 1970). The atmosphere...
...high tech businesses. Like most jobs that PRTM takes, this one involves sending a small group of consultants to work at the client's location for several months. At PRTM, they believe in working at the client's location and getting the client's staff deeply involved in the project. Tom (the fearless leader) proudly told me that PRTM has been called "the hands-on consulting firm" and Wang cited the firm's "roll-up-our-sleeves" style as one of its most attractive features...
...Wang leads me through the cubicles into a conference room. It's called "the team room"--the hub of any consulting project. It is sparsely furnished with chairs and folding tables, an easel with newsprint and a wipeboard on one wall. The tables are covered with piles of paper, technical manuals (including Presentations for Dummies) and cables from the team's numerous laptops and cellular phones. The whole set-up is remarkably impermanent--the team could pack up and leave in about 20 minutes without leaving a trace...