You encounter this a lot in the digital design profession. Designers just love having a whinge (about account managers ;-) ) but also about clients. I see this as a pretty stupid thing to do because if you took everything away, clients still have one thing going for them, they pay. If you removed all the account managers from the world..well
But here in lies the rub, they think that because they ultimately control the purse strings, they ultimately control the process. This is not how all clients work, just, (and any clients please note when reading this) the stupid, spineless, the controlling, the arrogant. Their value system is skewed, the think money is the sole detriment of control, which is is exactly the wrong foundation for a project and wrong motivation to do it. It isn't,the sole determinant of control should be 'who is the best person to run this project', "who is the most capable'. In all cases it will be the designer, why? Because the client wouldn't have come to the designer of he/she could do it themselves, could they?
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