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Excellent article, thanks for sharing. I wonder, if one wants to disrupt management consulting, what would it be ? Massive open annonymized datasets ?

GoodJokes 7y ago
Honestly, workplace democratization. Management consulting depends on illegitimate hierarchies and elitism that discounts regular worker opinions and elevated opinions of “experts.” Consultants tell you how to read your watch. They are by and large not something to be disrupted, but just eliminated.
vanusa 7y ago
This whole "management consulting" thing is but a symptom of a deeper, underlying problem. What really needs to be disrupted is the governing ideology of the political-economic system itself.
- voisin 7y ago
  Please expand on the second paragraph.
- rayiner 7y ago
  I’m sitting here in Tokyo, in a now rich country that was a developing nation when my dad was born, arguing on my magic pocket computer with someone who may we be in the opposite side of the world. All thanks to the current “governing ideology of the political-economic system.” Making the case that needs to be “disrupted” is a tough road you’ve chosen to hoe.
  - euroPoor 7y ago
    I’m sorry but this assertion does not hold in general. Two things to think about https://psmag.com/magazine/cellphone-revolutionary-objects https://psmag.com/magazine/cellphone-revolutionary-objects https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/26/communists-capitalism-stalinism-economic-model https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/26/commun...
    - rayiner 7y ago
      Capitalism is consensus. Even Europe, which experimented with soft forms of socialism in the 1960s-1980s, has settled back to various forms of capitalist welfare system with free markets, low business taxes, and reduced regulation. Tatcher, Reagan, Merkel, Clinton, Blair, Harper, Howard, Johnson-these people weren’t passing fads. They represent the consensus view of the most prosperous and successful societies in the planet. I find it very difficult to care what privileged people from capitalist countries have to say about the problems of capitalism. There is a blueprint to prosperity. It involves free markets, property rights, individual freedom, respect for investors, the rule of law, and an abiding skepticism of radicalism or social upheaval. Countries like Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Korea, etc., have followed that blueprint to prosperity within the lifetime of people who are around today. Countries like Bangladesh, where my family hails from, are seeing massive development by moving (imperfectly) in that direction. People like “Owen Jones” May be well intentioned, but in their nativity are a threat to the potential for a free and prosperous world. We’re all on a boat. There are reasonable debates to be had about which way we should steer the boat or how fast to go. But the people espousing socialism (not like Macron welfare capitalist, but as contradistinguished from capitalism) are trying to poke holes in the boat.
      - euroPoor 7y ago
        > I find it very difficult to care what privileged people from capitalist countries have to say about the problems of capitalism. Imagine being this undemocratic and inhumane. You should listen to critique and not outright deny its existence. If you’re going to defend oligarchies (US, France, UK) I don’t know what to tell you but ‘consensus’ and ‘majority view’ are definitely not the keywords here.
        badpun 7y ago
        > If you’re going to defend oligarchies (US, France, UK) I don’t know what to tell you but ‘consensus’ and ‘majority view’ are definitely not the keywords here. The catastrophic effects of most (all?) revolutions that wanted to change that should really be emphasised more during history lessons in school. Without it, people are clueless as to the dangers of trying to change the status quo.
  - vanusa 7y ago
    Yes, the gadgets are nifty and -- for the time being -- life is relatively swell (for some). But there are downsides, too -- and the long-term prognosis of what this system holds in store for us... just doesn't look good. And may potentially end quite disastrously, in fact.
    - bhupy 7y ago
      Can you elaborate what the long-term prognosis is?
      - vanusa 7y ago
        The inevitable outcome of a system predicated on infinite growth on a planet with finite resources.

GoodJokes 7y ago

Honestly, workplace democratization. Management consulting depends on illegitimate hierarchies and elitism that discounts regular worker opinions and elevated opinions of “experts.” Consultants tell you how to read your watch. They are by and large not something to be disrupted, but just eliminated.

vanusa 7y ago

This whole "management consulting" thing is but a symptom of a deeper, underlying problem. What really needs to be disrupted is the governing ideology of the political-economic system itself.

voisin 7y ago
Please expand on the second paragraph.
rayiner 7y ago
I’m sitting here in Tokyo, in a now rich country that was a developing nation when my dad was born, arguing on my magic pocket computer with someone who may we be in the opposite side of the world. All thanks to the current “governing ideology of the political-economic system.” Making the case that needs to be “disrupted” is a tough road you’ve chosen to hoe.
- euroPoor 7y ago
  I’m sorry but this assertion does not hold in general. Two things to think about https://psmag.com/magazine/cellphone-revolutionary-objects https://psmag.com/magazine/cellphone-revolutionary-objects https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/26/communists-capitalism-stalinism-economic-model https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/26/commun...
  - rayiner 7y ago
    Capitalism is consensus. Even Europe, which experimented with soft forms of socialism in the 1960s-1980s, has settled back to various forms of capitalist welfare system with free markets, low business taxes, and reduced regulation. Tatcher, Reagan, Merkel, Clinton, Blair, Harper, Howard, Johnson-these people weren’t passing fads. They represent the consensus view of the most prosperous and successful societies in the planet. I find it very difficult to care what privileged people from capitalist countries have to say about the problems of capitalism. There is a blueprint to prosperity. It involves free markets, property rights, individual freedom, respect for investors, the rule of law, and an abiding skepticism of radicalism or social upheaval. Countries like Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Korea, etc., have followed that blueprint to prosperity within the lifetime of people who are around today. Countries like Bangladesh, where my family hails from, are seeing massive development by moving (imperfectly) in that direction. People like “Owen Jones” May be well intentioned, but in their nativity are a threat to the potential for a free and prosperous world. We’re all on a boat. There are reasonable debates to be had about which way we should steer the boat or how fast to go. But the people espousing socialism (not like Macron welfare capitalist, but as contradistinguished from capitalism) are trying to poke holes in the boat.
    - euroPoor 7y ago
      > I find it very difficult to care what privileged people from capitalist countries have to say about the problems of capitalism. Imagine being this undemocratic and inhumane. You should listen to critique and not outright deny its existence. If you’re going to defend oligarchies (US, France, UK) I don’t know what to tell you but ‘consensus’ and ‘majority view’ are definitely not the keywords here.
      - badpun 7y ago
        > If you’re going to defend oligarchies (US, France, UK) I don’t know what to tell you but ‘consensus’ and ‘majority view’ are definitely not the keywords here. The catastrophic effects of most (all?) revolutions that wanted to change that should really be emphasised more during history lessons in school. Without it, people are clueless as to the dangers of trying to change the status quo.
- vanusa 7y ago
  Yes, the gadgets are nifty and -- for the time being -- life is relatively swell (for some). But there are downsides, too -- and the long-term prognosis of what this system holds in store for us... just doesn't look good. And may potentially end quite disastrously, in fact.
  - bhupy 7y ago
    Can you elaborate what the long-term prognosis is?
    - vanusa 7y ago
      The inevitable outcome of a system predicated on infinite growth on a planet with finite resources.