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The frustrating one is when you've been telling management something for months (if not years), and the consultant comes in, and their report says what you been saying, and only then does the company finally do what you've been saying all along! Coulda saved the company 5-figures just listening to me. sigh politics.

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Not sure why this would frustrate you.

People have ideas all the time internally. I'm going to assume the idea you had was one of many.

The issue is getting the real decision makers to buy into it. They aren't going to take the word of someone who works in some division. They want some rigor to it.

Bringing in someone who isn't tainted by the groupthink of the company, can actually take a sober view of the situation, has puts some weight to the recommendation.

Why is that frustrating? I find it validating

It's frustrating because you don't get money or credit for the idea.

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