Management consultants are rubbish

[markinbrussels]

Johann Hari: The management consultancy scam - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent

[xoggoth]

Management is a people thing, so as a disconnected psychopath I don't know TBH, although. having looked at numerous items of advice on networking and growing a small business I am inclined to believe it. It always resembles mumbo jumbo to me, many people in the consultancy game are parasites.

The authorship of that article is convincing in itself. On some issues she may be a bit lefty for people with Refudiate socialism under their threads but Ms Hari is a very rational and sound lady. Atheism is usually a reliable indication of intelligence and reason.

[NickFitz]

A friend of mine made an exceedingly large amount of money in management consultancy in the late Nineties to mid Noughties. His favourite description of what he did was, "People give me their watches so I can tell them the time."

[sasguru]

On some issues she may be a bit lefty for people with Refudiate socialism under their threads but Ms Hari is a very rational and sound lady. Atheism is usually a reliable indication of intelligence and reason.

Has Mr. Hari had a sex change already?

[MarillionFan]

A friend of mine made an exceedingly large amount of money in management consultancy in the late Nineties to mid Noughties. His favourite description of what he did was, "People give me their watches so I can tell them the time."

If consultants are reknowned for telling people something they already know, does that make you the Anti-Cons?

[Spacecadet]

in business on radio 4 last night spent at least half the show ripping apart the whole cult if the mba qualified nu management style that's been growing in popularity over the last 20 years or so

[xoggoth]

He was was a lady last week, news columnists are alway changing sex like Guppies, it means nothing.

[d000hg]

Atheism is usually a reliable indication of intelligence and reason.

Given that Joe 'chavvy' Public is an atheist I think that's going to take some proving. Religious idiots get more attention, but stupidity does not discriminate between sport, religion, colour, nationality, etc.

Just take a look at CUK...

[centurian]

Management consultants are rubbish

On the contrary, they are very good at what they do - which is to extract huge sums of money from ClientCo's, while talking utter tosh - and yet doing it in such a way that ClientCo thinks it's the canine's testicles and promptly wants to shovel even more money their way.

[d000hg]

The Cranfield School of Management studied 170 companies who had used management consultants, and it discovered just 36 per cent of them were happy with the outcome – while two thirds judged them to be useless or harmful. A medicine with that failure-rate would be taken off the shelves.

Typical, 3% were happy AND considered them harmful. And nobody thought about it and said "meh, no difference"?