Hack Your Bureaucracy

Sometimes a bureaucracy doesn’t solicit your ideas but pays a consultant a pretty penny for them. If your organization has an outside consulting firm show up to make recommendations, try to get time with them, and share your thoughts. Consultants are often quite game to include your ideas and materials (even if they’re inclined to take all the credit for them). As much as it doesn’t make logical sense, we’ve seen a lot of organizations that ignore internal pitches for years snap to attention when a high-priced consultant says the same thing.