Million dollar consulting 翻译测试.docVIP

The horrible news about consulting is that there is no barrier to entry. The great news about consulting is that there is no barrier to entry.进入咨询这一行业的的好、坏消息就是无进入壁垒。 The Institute of Management Consultants (IMC), for which I once served as a board member, has been doing its level best to try to establish a recognized certification process for a couple of decades, but this is unlikely, in our lifetimes, to attain the state sanctions accorded to other professions. Membership in that organization is static or declining and represents less than 1 percent of actual solo practitioners and less than 0.5 percent of those who call themselves consultants. 我曾作为一名董事会成员在管理顾问协会任职，此协会好几十年一直追求设置普遍人认可的管理顾问证书制度，但是在我们的有生之年，由于受到国家的制裁，这个目标是不可能实现了。因为此协会的人数保持不变，或者正向减少的趋势发展，实际与会参与者的人数还不到百分之一，而自称是顾问的人数更少之甚少，还达不到百分之零点五。 Yet consulting is a profession that can earn its practitioners wealth far in excess of what can be earned in fields with rigid qualifying criteria. And this wealth is not only in the form of financial success. It also includes a dramatic learning curve, experiences of a broad and diverse nature, and the potential to provide value to clients that can have an impact on tens of thousands of people at any given moment.然而。从事咨询这一行的人士可以赚取更多的财富，这一财富值远远多于在其他单位能得到的，而且其他单位对资历标准具有刚性的要求。这种财富的获得绝不只有经济方面的优势，除此还有其它的功效：为从业者提供一个巨大的学习空间，也使他获得广泛的经验，更重要的是，从业者向客户展示了会源源不断不断为他创造价值的潜能，在某些既定时刻，顾问的这种潜能会感化数以千计的人。 In view of this peculiar situation, I would like to begin by establishing a definition of a consultant. This is not a definition for the ages, or one that will be acceptable to everybody. However, it is sufficient to serve as a working definition for the remaining chapters, and it serves to establish what a consultant is and what a consultant is not. A consultant is someone who provides value through specialized expertise, content, behavior, skill, or other resources to assist a client in improving the status quo in return for mutually agreed-upon compensation. A consultant improves the client