The Boss of You

As we have men­tioned many times, we’re big fans of Jenny Hart’s “Craft­ing a Busi­ness” col­umn over at Venus Zine. So it’s an under­state­ment to say we were hon­oured when Jenny asked us to con­tribute to this month’s col­umn on the sub­ject of busi­ness advis­ers. Here’s a quick excerpt:

What are the warn­ing signs of a bad con­sul­tant or adviser?
The biggest give­away that you’re deal­ing with a bad adviser is if they try to dole out a one-size-fits-all solu­tion. It’s likely your first sign of this will be that they don’t ask you many ques­tions about you, your busi­ness, and your goals; instead, they rush straight to hand­ing out advice. If you get the impres­sion they’re more inter­ested in send­ing you down a con­veyor belt than build­ing a rela­tion­ship with you, run away. Another pet peeve of ours is when an “expert” can’t be both­ered to explain them­selves in plain lan­guage. Our expe­ri­ence has been that if they shy away from help­ing you to under­stand the lan­guage they’re using, they’re likely try­ing to keep you from fig­ur­ing out that they’re full of it.

And here’s the link to read the whole thing…