Re:McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis...
by bob33212 on Thursday February 04, 2021 @12:23PM
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It is one thing to bring in some more workers to help you with research you don't have the ability to do. It is another thing to pay someone to make a report backing up a decision you have already made. It is another thing to pay someone to make a decision that you don't want to make, so they can take the blame. The first example is not why management consulting gets a bad name.
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Re:McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis...
by aerosmile on Thursday February 04, 2021 @05:45PM
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This is helpful for understanding why management consulting gets a bad name, and I am not pushing back on that. The parent comment I responded to was making the claim that executives who hire such consultants are incompetent, and I think we both agree that this is not about their competency.