We don t always get what we want, specify or pay for. If we did, half the lawyers in the US would be unemployed. This can be the case with stars that shift their focus to other projects as soon as you sign on the dotted line. In this instance, absence doesn t make your heart grow fonder or beat stronger, it simply makes another part of your anatomy chapped. The symptoms may be a series of odd presentations by junior people with project delivery substantially less rewarding than billed at RFP time.
Potential solutions exist.
Your project s selection was based upon the star not Ronnie and the Ronettes. Valuing quality, not time is the key to keeping your leadership with you on this tough tactic. In the design business, there are partnerships, joint ventures, limited cooperation agreements and other arrangements that are proposed when the star sells the job but can t or prefers not to produce the details. With a project to produce and only the vaguest elevation to show the world, the star seeks a local production firm to flesh out the design. This can be another version of Bait and Switch under the guise that the local firm will have the experience and political clout to make the project go.