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&lt;p&gt;I read this morning about a new movie that&#39;ll be debuting at the Toronto Film Festival, which starts on September 10. It&#39;s called &lt;i&gt;Up in the Air&lt;/i&gt;, based on the 2001 novel of the same name by Walter Kirn. The movie, directed by Jason Reitman of &lt;i&gt;Juno&lt;/i&gt; fame, stars George Clooney as—who else—management consultant Ryan Bingham, who specializes in the jargon-heavy area of &quot;career transition counseling,&quot; or, in other words, firing people. (If companies aren&#39;t wary enough of having consultants walk through their doors to … strategize … I&#39;m sure this movie will work wonders to inspire confidence.) What makes Clooney&#39;s character even more lovable is the lofty goal that he&#39;s trying to attain: accumulating ten million frequent flyer miles. &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I haven&#39;t read the book, but I can only hope that the movie carries over some of its literary jewels, like this quote from Bingham himself: &quot;Business is folk wisdom, cave-born, dark, Masonic, and the best consultants are outright shamans who sprinkle on the science like so much fairy dust.&quot; Who could argue with that? &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Billed as a satire of the corporate world and all the follies that go along with it, I&#39;d say &lt;i&gt;Up in the Air&lt;/i&gt; has Oscar Winner written all over it. It&#39;s high time consultants had their time in the spotlight (and having Clooney and Reitman on our team doesn&#39;t hurt either). &lt;p&gt;

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