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Quoted by Sarah on March 27 2009:

I learned back in the days when I was consulting that they give you more information than you could possibly read. So you needed to quickly step back and say, “What are the two or three things that really matter?” And I find in the world that people don’t really do that often.

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Greg Brenneman, chairman of CCMP Capital, in the NYT

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3 comments so far

choonkeat 27 Mar 09

reminds me of a businessweek article abt dyslexics

marvis 27 Mar 09

Isn’t that what consulting jobs are often about? Going through all that stuff, figuring out the few things that matter and put them together in a way that makes sense to your clients?

Dmitry 27 Mar 09

marvis: I don’t think that’s what the quote is really about. It’s about situations where people get lost in the myriad of things that don’t matter in the end. When starting to work through a problem they just go at it and start working with what they have, instead of taking a step back and actually thinking about what they’re trying to achieve—what do you really need? People would often focus on stuff that just doesn’t matter in the end. That’s when they get busy and work hard, but achieve nothing.