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Saturday, 27 September 2008 |
By Donald Mitchell
 However much thou art read in theory,
if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant.
--Sa'di
After working as a strategy consultant as my first job after graduate school, I was interested in learning more about what it takes to make change from the inside. I also was hoping that an insider would be able to pursue more difficult tasks than consultants usually addressed.
The management at Heublein, the Fortune 500 food and beverage company (products included A.1. Sauce, Grey Poupon mustard, Ortega chiles, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Smirnoff vodka, Harvey's Bristol Cream, and Italian Swiss Colony, Beaulieu, and Inglenook wines), asked me to become their corporate planner back in the days when that was a popular thing for companies to do. Today, organizations prefer to have their leaders learn strategic thinking rather than to rely too much on staff people.
I soon found that changing opinions was, if anything, more difficult to do from the inside than it had been as a consultant. But I thought I had an ace up my sleeve.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 27 September 2008 )
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