As a professional consultant I have adhered to such an enforceable Code of Ethics for 38 years, what if PwC’s partners and professionals had adhered to the same?

“As a consultant, you can choose to get yourself into any situation so be prepared to face potential scrutiny.” Essentially the same as what I heard echoed my mentor in 1973, “Do you want your actions to be above the fold?”

Does your organization have a leadership ‘source of truth?’ If not, I strongly suggest you do.

How do you as a management consultant avoid this trap? Let’s explore possible ways.

… You just gave them your workplan, your IP, your pricing scheme…

Not all consulting firms adhere to high ethical standards and principles, as evidenced, once again, by the recent case of KPMG and Microsoft.

It is relatively easy – if you believe in your practice and want to do the right thing in the right way.

It is up to us, the individual management consultant, to do something positive about our individual and collective professional image.

Further differentiate your consulting by training in ISO 20700.

How an international-recognized certification as a management consultant further allows you to differentiate yourself as a consultant.

The importance of understanding and adhering to a professional Code of Conduct is critical as you and your behavior, as a consultant, represent more than yourself.

The bottom line is that understanding and adhering to the Framework is to instill confidence in you and your practice.

Understanding and adherence to an enforceable Code of Ethics further differentiates you and your consulting practice from other consultants.

Your commitment to ethical behavior, your understanding of consulting competencies, your professional conduct, earn the gold-standard.

One wrong "REPLY ALL" and the whole thread becomes a never-ending game of ping-pong. Yikes, what just happened?

You praise them for smashing the mole and the cycle repeats, emergency after emergency. Soon, everyone is busy playing Whack-a-Mole or firefighting…

You train your employees, you rely on them, you encourage them, you pay them, and, yet, the inevitable ‘people problems’ surface.

The success of an organization is inversely proportional to the number of secrets it keeps.

Oh my, here we go again.

Here’s the way I see it -- consulting is a profession and those individuals who practice within the industry can do some relatively easy things to ‘up-their-game’ and”