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Your best senior is moonlighting as the client's shadow consultant

Il tuo senior migliore fa da consulente ombra al cliente · Consulting · Beginner

The case

You discover by accident, through a misdirected invoice, that your best senior works privately on weekends for an active client of the firm: small analysis engagements the client pays him directly, at a third of your rates, on topics adjacent to the official project. The senior's contract forbids competing activities, but he is the linchpin of three ongoing projects, the client in question is happy with both relationships, and the senior, confronted, claims these were personal favors born of the human relationship and the firm lost nothing. The junior team looks up to him as a model. How do you handle the case?

Scopri per caso, da una fattura girata per errore, che il tuo senior migliore lavora privatamente nei weekend per un cliente attivo dello studio: piccoli incarichi di analisi che il cliente paga a lui direttamente, a un terzo delle vostre tariffe, su temi contigui al progetto ufficiale. Il contratto del senior vieta attività concorrenti, ma lui è il perno di tre progetti in corso, il cliente in questione è contento di entrambi i rapporti, e il senior, messo davanti al fatto, sostiene che erano favori personali nati dal rapporto umano e che lo studio non ha perso nulla. Il resto del team junior lo osserva come un modello. Come gestisci il caso?

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