If Henry Ford had listened to his customers he would have built a better horse and buggy
Interesting article here on the mundaneness of Mangagement Consultants, courtesy The Economist.
The Economist usually has not been known for being pro-consultants. Among other things, two of the journalists in its staff wrote ‘The Witch Doctors’, a highly critical book on consultants and their fallibility.
Nonetheless, the article does make sense. I mean what the dickens does, “For the first time since the dawning of the industrial age, the only way to build a company that’s fit for the future is to build one that’s fit for human beings.”, mean?
Sometimes one feels the only good consultant is the consultant who will also execute. But unfortunately those who execute drop out of school, while consultants go on to acquire triple-baralled educational degrees.
… and so it starts
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