This means that the client must be able to take credit for any successes. This is often difficult for a consulting team needing to take credit. Be careful not to get involved in a battle of egos. To be a good consultant one must be in touch with his or her own motivations, self concept and identity. Remember that your role is to help the client.
Many clients wish to push responsibility over to the consulting team.
This may be to absolve themselves of responsibility for potential failure, or because the expert model is all that they know. In either case, the team should work to balance responsibility. It is gratifying for the consulting team to solve a problem that other could not solve. Get comfortable with this role. An improved Learning Organization.