☭ Management Consultants as Soviet Apparatchiks →
May 12, 2023 • #I love everything about this article:
While the technical oriented consultancies may do some good, it’s obvious at this point that the management consultancies do not serve any socially useful purpose in modern society. Mostly, they are a self serving group who exist to support their in-group and their customers. By “customers” I don’t mean the corporations and shareholders, I mean incompetent bureaucrats who have been promoted beyond their capabilities. Mind you, people from these groups have a lot of polish: they dress up nice and give good powerpoint. If you wanted to hire, say, a lobbyist or something like that requires diplomatic skills, someone formerly at one of these firms would probably be ideal.
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