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Let’s imagine a Fortune 50 corporation wants to improve efficiency and audit its books for fraud. Should they: 1) Hire professional auditors and business cons
by pavlov 2y ago
Let’s imagine a Fortune 50 corporation wants to improve efficiency and audit its books for fraud.
Should they:
1) Hire professional auditors and business consultants to perform the undoubtedly massive review;
2) Ask the CEO of one of their suppliers to do the review as a fun side gig, let the CEO bring in a tiny team of teenage whiz kids, and give them full god mode access to the company’s books and databases and HR systems so they can fire anyone at will and ask questions later?
The approach chosen by America’s chief executive is bafflingly #2.
It’s worth noting that Trump has no experience managing a large corporation. All his businesses are partnerships with very few employees. He has no competence for this kind of thing, so he’s delegating everything to Musk who is the proverbial fox in the hen house, shutting down regulators who affect his own businesses.
- honeybadger1 2y agoBeing on HN and someone posting a pro-consulting firm post is...rich...
- ChrisRR 2y agoYes. Many times hiring experts is 100% the correct approach. Getting a rando with next to no experience or knowledge of the product to spend an hour looking before making sweeping changes isn't
- thesuitonym 2y agoBoth options are a consulting firm, one just has experience and expertise, the other is DOGE.
- notpushkin 2y agoTo be honest, I’d choose the door #2 anytime.
- toyg 2y ago> Trump has no experience managing a large corporation And the little experience he has is of repeated bankruptcies and dodgy dealings, saved only by his political adventures (which now bankroll his Mar A Lago resort with public money).