The most expensive thing a consultant can do is concede too early.
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Scope creep and fee pressure are not commercial problems. They are human ones.
Most consulting MDs lose value in negotiations not because of a weak position, but because the emotional dynamics of a tense client conversation override the strategy before it can be deployed. Scope creep, fee pressure, difficult stakeholder dynamics — these are not commercial problems. They are human ones.
Scotland Yard frameworks. Applied to the conversations where senior consultants lose most value.
300+ resolved cases. Featured in Harvard Business Review and The New York Times. Sunday Times bestselling author.
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Scotland Yard frameworks. Applied to the conversations where senior consultants lose most value.
Scott Walker is a former Scotland Yard detective and international crisis negotiator. He has resolved over 300 high-stakes cases globally and is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Order Out of Chaos. Clients include McKinsey, Accenture, and London Business School. His work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, and Forbes. He teaches the same frameworks that held under life-or-death pressure — applied to the commercial conversations where senior consultants lose most value.
Successful negotiation starts with managing your own emotions. But that is where your self-focus should stop. The rest is all about your counterparts.
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