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<p>Brooklynborndad - in the past few years, I have been brought in to “rescue” consulting projects given to other firms – big-name firms, for whom my clients were paying half a million dollars – and their results were useless, so then they went and paid my business partner and me a tidy sum of money to rescue it. Is it about our sheer brain power in analyzing data better? Well, yes to some extent 
But the part that makes us successful, the part that causes people to hire us to salvage other people’s work, is that we know how to effect change in organizations by driving the findings through to a wide audience and in causing people to break their paradigms and begin to manage their businesses a different way. That’s what these companies really need – not just the most brilliant analysis of data by the bestest mathematician. And part of that is done by social skills. I’m an introvert and I’m certainly not the glad-handler of the crowd, but I know how to lead, motivate and inspire an audience, to keep them enthused, to keep them highly motivated and high-energy while working through some pretty tough stuff. That’s where the power lies, IMO.</p>