The outsider wins

Weekly Jewish Wisdom: The Outsider Wins by Dr. Erica Brown "There is no prophet in his own city." Jewish adage When institutions face difficult, seemingly intractable problems, what do they do? They bring in a consultant, of course! This person, for usually large sums of money, proceeds to tell them what their problem is and, if lucky, offers some possible solutions. Most often, the problem identified is already evident to most of the people involved anyway, so what good does an outsider bring to the complexity of a situation? As one joke has it, a consultant is a person who asks to borrow your watch to tell you what time it is. What do families do when they face difficult,... [via Washingtonpost]