Clarification/Follow-up by excon on 09/28/05 4:48 am:

Hello again, den:

Well, I too, waited for someone to give you more detail. Nothing... Ok, I still got two cents:

I'm not sure what more detail you need. To become a consultant, you need a history (resume) of management expertise or an education from a business school.

Maybe you're not quite sure what a manager does. Well, join the club. By the way, it really doesn't matter from an employees perspective, whether the manager is a self employed consultant working on a contractual basis, or whether he's actually employed by the company. The job is the same. He advises management. About what, you ask? How to increase profit, I answer.

How does he do that? He probably writes reports and communicates personally. Yup, that's all a manager/consultant does. He writes and talks. If he's any good, he inspires.

What do most companies need who hire managers (either on a consultation basis or permanently)? They need to increase profits. How do they do that? There's a jillion ways: cut expenses, increase sales.... Well ok, there's only two.. But, there's a jillion ways how you accomplish either of those two things.

excon

PS> What is it that you need to know, that I'm not telling?