One of the strongest Cons is the lack of leadership and strategic direction. The leadership claims to have excellent contacts (which is somewhat true) but the cannot generate any reasonable project out of this. And if there is a project then it is a very routinized, operative project (e.g. reviewing the corporate responsibility or sustainability report and provide improvement measures...) although AccountAbility would like to position itself in the area of strategy consultants..this is a clear fail so far, also based on the small basis of really good consultants (which i localized only in the UK...2 (!) people) others are more or less useless as (strategy) consultants also because lack of implementation/line experience (even at top leadership level). Due to the size of AccountAbility, there is also a lack of structure and templates and tools etc. Each time, a project produces their own, specific approach, which is "cool" for the client but terrible for the consultants. There is not professional business development, too. And, last but not least, there is not a unified corporate culture, especially between the US practice and the UK practice. Lots of "political" issues hinder the development of a strong and professional consulting culture.
