It goes something like this: Some manager sees a problem at work and mentions it to his golfing "buddy" at the 19th hole, who is a consulting senior partner at

It goes something like this: Some manager sees a problem at work and mentions it to his golfing "buddy" at the 19th hole, who is a consulting senior partner at some management consulting company. A week later he gets a call from his golfing buddy inviting him to discuss those problems over lunch. A proposal is made and the manager then contracts the management consulting company to do an "investigative study". Consultant(s) are flown in from various distant places and disrupt the business with lots of inane questions for two weeks. Managing partner appears onsite on the first day and last day (if you are lucky). The junior management consultant is then tasked to write up a report, that the senior manager puts his name to. The invoice arrives for 1 million dollars. Report doesn't get read by the business and nothing changes. Management consultancy blames business for ignoring advice. Cycle goes on. Golf gets played. Drinks at the bar, manager spills his guts about problems at work to his management consultant golf buddies, who are just a little less drunk than he is. Expenses accounts get charged. The long con.... N.B. You will notice that the management consultancy expense account is charged when reeling in the client at the golf club bar, whilst the expense account of the "mark" starts to be charged when the ink on the contract is still wet.