The Interpreter

The role of an Execution consultant is that of a coach in more ways than one.

The organizational leader who hires the services of the execution consultant is himself a very smart person, and a very capable leader. However, caught in familiarity and the web of ongoing deadlines, he is using language without meaning, methodologies without contextualizing, driving a good car without knowing the terrain.

The Execution consultant is a knowledgeable friend who interprets the leader's own language to him, throws a new light to his methodologies, exactly in the light of what terrain he is in. With a renewed and refreshing look at the language, with the eagerness of learning a foreign language, the organizational leader is helped by his consultant friend to decide what foreign language training has to be given to his team so that the organizational language is no longer foreign to them. He also helps repair the terrain to some extent, tunes up the whole essay of the organization into a manual all can follow, even change a few cars and drivers.

Driving with an interpreted understanding of the language which was by far foreign to the entire organization in many ways, becomes a great pleasure.

As in the story of the newcomer who joined a monastery, where the disciples told him, 'Be like a student eager to learn a foreign language. The words he speaks sound familiar, but don't be taken in; they have an altogether foreign meaning' (Anthony De Mello).