The examples given in this article strike me as "blowing smoke up someone's ass". All fine and good for keeping your consulting contract going longer and milking people out of money without providing useful solutions but that is a horrible way to deal with fellow humans.
Sometimes when you see someone failing at someone it's very painful to watch them and have them not take your advice that could help them in their situation but it's not useful to blow smoke up their ass. The usefulness is in providing the advice that corrects their situation and then walking away until they're ready to listen. In all of these examples it is the ego of the one who did something wrong that is the problem not the advice giver. Perhaps your article should be about how too many egos prevent people from getting better. In every example the lash back and the ego of the one receiving the advice was the problem and is preventing them from learning.
When consulting I did not give two shits about what a customer spent in their budget for a project if they spent it wrong. If they would bring up their wrong way of doing something I would ask them why did they hire me if they continue to want to go down that path. Sometimes you first have to get their mind right so they are open to understanding they failed and their ways aren't working so they can accept the correct ways.
Sometimes when you see someone failing at someone it's very painful to watch them and have them not take your advice that could help them in their situation but it's not useful to blow smoke up their ass. The usefulness is in providing the advice that corrects their situation and then walking away until they're ready to listen. In all of these examples it is the ego of the one who did something wrong that is the problem not the advice giver. Perhaps your article should be about how too many egos prevent people from getting better. In every example the lash back and the ego of the one receiving the advice was the problem and is preventing them from learning.
When consulting I did not give two shits about what a customer spent in their budget for a project if they spent it wrong. If they would bring up their wrong way of doing something I would ask them why did they hire me if they continue to want to go down that path. Sometimes you first have to get their mind right so they are open to understanding they failed and their ways aren't working so they can accept the correct ways.