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I had an Econ prof who described his consulting business as: 1. Coming into the company and gathering information from the low-level staff. 2. Presenting the
by AlexandrB 4y ago
I had an Econ prof who described his consulting business as:
1. Coming into the company and gathering information from the low-level staff.
2. Presenting the information to management.
3. Collecting $1000/hr or more for his trouble.
Basically information washing to get execs to accept information that they would normally ignore. I wonder how much of this kind of thing goes on in industry.
- Firmwarrior 4y agohaha, I definitely saw some of that at Amazon This highly-paid factory efficiency expert was enthusiastically explaining how he works. "You just listen to the workers. They know where the inefficiencies are"
- UK-Al05 4y agoThat's lean.
- globalise83 4y agoNot really, lean would be listening to the workers
- pempem 4y agoNo matter how many times you recommend managers do this very thing, they do not.
- wahnfrieden 4y agohttps://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-bullshit-jobs https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-bullsh... Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs elaborates on this
- ianmcgowan 4y agoI've worked with senior managers who have zero regard for the knowledge of the people doing the work. It might be those workers don't have some over-arching conceptual framework for how the company works, but they do have intimate and sometimes deep knowledge of what they do all day. And not taking advantage of that is a huge blind spot.
- LAC-Tech 4y agoIMO that's what a good consultant does! I mean that's much more useful than the big 4.
- acdha 4y agoWhere I saw that work it was effectively routing around the middle layer: the guy bucking for a promotion based on some project isn’t going to let any report mention that the users hate it, but they’ll certainly tell the consultants that. It worked but was a very expensive way to about fixing social problems.