Sep 21, 2026 · 59 min · 10 segments
Consulting comes with plenty of unwritten rules: own your mistakes, communicate thoughtfully, document your work, and maybe don’t come in hot on day one. In this episode, we unpack the habits that…
If you screw something up, run in the someone's office and go oh my lord what did i do can i can i put a
corollary there absolutely correlate unless you can fix it right away and it's usually better to come up with a solution before running into the office
yes that's the full one and i i have had those in there i just didn't add them now but i won't take full credit um The spending time to fix it or just verify it happened, once you've got that, the solution, and then run.
But, hey, do you want me to try and fix it this way? Because sometimes you actually didn't screw up.
Something else was going on, especially if you don't know the territory, as it were, just yet.
because nothing gets you in more trouble than trying to fix something that wasn't broken and dig in an even deeper hole.
No, I mean, like the unknown, you have to accept that there's going to be unknowns and that they're going to cause problems.
That word carries a lot of weight, a lot of negativity, but really it's just another step in the process to getting it done.
Alison, what is your favorite tip that you've ever heard in your entire life about consulting? You have two seconds to answer, go.
If you screw something up, run in the someone's office and go oh my lord what did i do can i can i put a
corollary there absolutely correlate unless you can fix it right away and it's usually better to come up with a solution before running into the office
yes that's the full one and i i have had those in there i just didn't add them now but i won't take full credit um The spending time to fix it or just verify it happened, once you've got that, the solution, and then run.
But, hey, do you want me to try and fix it this way? Because sometimes you actually didn't screw up.
Something else was going on, especially if you don't know the territory, as it were, just yet.
because nothing gets you in more trouble than trying to fix something that wasn't broken and dig in an even deeper hole.
No, I mean, like the unknown, you have to accept that there's going to be unknowns and that they're going to cause problems.
That word carries a lot of weight, a lot of negativity, but really it's just another step in the process to getting it done.
Alison, what is your favorite tip that you've ever heard in your entire life about consulting? You have two seconds to answer, go.
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