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The real skill isn't the advice - it's convincing executives that contradicting your previous $100M recommendation somehow validates hiring you again.
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Consulting services rarely are there to help figure out what to do, they're there to help convince other people that what you want to do is the right move.
Man I wish I knew how to grift rich people like this
This company also advised multiple large opiate manufacturers.
TIl, I could do this job.
A lot of high paying decision making jobs could be done much better if they were actually given to people based on their talents and not who they know or are related to.
The hardest part about the job is getting it
And if you are wondering why the German military is being made fun of so much: it's McKinsey again. But no worries, we took care if it. The minister of defense in charge back then is long gone. Cause she is the president of the European Commission now. Multiple of her children have worked for McKinsey in the past. What a coincidence!
All consulting is like this. Itβs a way to offload blame for your decisions by not making any in-house.
Our company paid a consulting firm 100k to deliver the same message our internal had been saying for 5 years.
Oh yes. The board member used to work for that consultancy.
Sounds like they still get paid then!
From my (fortunately) brief experience in software consulting, I can confirm that is an important unwritten rule of the job. It doesn't matter what exactly you sell to customers, as long as they are willing to buy it and come back. It explains why a lot of software is dogshit.
"I can't produce anything, so I'll take money away from other people doing business" ~consultants
Legends.
TLC used to be The Learning Channel. Before it was βhereβs a bunch of children who are being sexually abused behind the camera,β it was educational outreach. Vocational training. Satellite college courses for people in Alaska and Appalachia.
Then Discovery bought it. Fuck Discovery.
Yep. I thought for ages that it was a spinoff of discovery but no, it was a whole thing that went back to the 80s. After Discovery acquired it blam.
Why do I associate TLC with, like, Trading Spaces and other domestic not-quite-a-game shows like that? Am I conflating it with something else? Also I haven't had "television" in decades now.
It used to be PBS for adults. I remember turning it on and there would be a documentary about like piano players and the connection to the brain.
Went down hill thanks to reality TV.
Because thatβs the slop it turned into. It was a place for documentaries and educational content, just like MTV used to have music. But watching Kate torment her brood of children or Honey BooBoo eat sketti makes the kind of money airing a college lecture doesnβt.
This kind of content taking off and the popularity of the Kardashians were the proverbial canary in the coal mine for the intellectual apocalypse we're dealing with now. We are what we eat, and what you watch absolutely influences how you think and act.
I used to watch Trading Spaces back in the day, and I remember when they started off and they'd actually do a good job, then I think there was an episode where the couple didn't like what they'd done, that got more engagement, then it became a show about neighbors ruining each other's homes, and thus was born reality television.
One of my favorite channels. I liked learning new stuff. Factual stuff. Not conspiracy theories disguised as history.