The way that agencies and consultancies used human bodies and time spent as a proxy for "value" is extraordinary and really needs to change. It's far easier to make far far more money by using more people as billable team, than it is to be bold and say "we just need a tiny number of brilliant people with time to think". It's rather easy ( and defendable ) to get a $40k monthly for a slice of 10 bums on seats, see energy wasted in bureaucracy, see bold ideas moderated to appease, see the pace of work slow to a trickle. Try to bill $15k a month for 3 brilliant people for a few hours here and there, to develop amazing ideas, offer fleeting moments of brilliance, to share wisdom and insights built over 40 years, to transform the quality of work done and it's considered wildly extravagant. This is less about the age old "how do we bill for our time" question and more a "We are producing terrible work because we are creating expensive constructs, that many waste their lives working for and this is a shameful loss to everyone, because we dare not take the risk of appearing excessive " Ultra long haul jetliners burn far more fuel to carry their own fuel, than the people they transport. Remember the cargo. …see more