How to Balance the Biggest Tensions of Running a Consulting Business

When you’re running a consulting company, you have to be successful with your people, your clients, and your business. When you balance all three, your business thrives. If you don’t, your business fails. Each individual area itself is typically pretty well known. But where they overlap is where your biggest tensions show up, the ones that keep you up at night.

Ultimately, you’ve got to balance the needs of your people, clients, and company. Sounds simple, but any consulting company leader knows it really isn’t. But it’s how well you manage the places where they create tension in the overlaps that determines how successful you will be. And your ability to do that depends on a few factors we’ll discuss.