For them to be the people who came back and said, 'Now we've got a different hat,' strikes me as clumsy at the very least. The two roles are so far apart from each other that in a sense it makes a mockery out of the earlier offers to act as the advisers to the incumbent management. |
The fact that they feel able to drop it means it has lost its luster. It's much diminished in stature, in how clients would see the firm as a potential vendor. |