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This. More broadly, anyone that claims you can improve anything by sending randoms who read some books to companies and 'consult' there is selling you a fantas
by alexashka 2y ago
This.
More broadly, anyone that claims you can improve anything by sending randoms who read some books to companies and 'consult' there is selling you a fantasy.
- asdff 2y agoPart of that is the side effect that the companies themselves are not giving their own employees time to actually pause from the slog in the trenches for a second and you know, read the book themselves. Instead book readers are brought in to consult on operations.
- StableAlkyne 2y agoThere is some value in that they can ignore whatever dumb red tape exists at your company. Also politically harder for middle managers to just ignore what the expensive consultants are suggesting
- psunavy03 2y agoI once watched a webinar on YouTube by Dave Snowden, who invented Cynefin and was an IBM VP. I think his words were something like "I hired those guys from time to time, not because I had any intention of doing what they recommended, but because it got the board and C-Suite off my back long enough for me to frame the problem in my head and decide what I was going to do."
- alexashka 2y agoMiddle managers who read some books and proceed to 'manage' are selling you a fantasy. You can't fix one fantasy with another fantasy.