‘The Big Con’ Review: The Conquering Consultants - WSJ

2023-04-03 13:03:50 By : Mr. David Du

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‘The Big Con’ Review: The Conquering Consultants - WSJ

The big management-consulting companies practically ask to be hated. They are famously awash in money paid to them by governments and giant corporations, they are staffed and run largely by graduates of elite universities, and nobody seems to know what they do. In popular culture, the image of consultancies collecting immense fees for PowerPoint-enlivened statements of the obvious was popularized by Martin Kihn’s 2005 book “House of Lies: How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time,” later made into a comedy-drama series on Showtime.

The political left, it’s fair to say, is more ambivalent about consultancies. On the one hand, the Ivy Leaguers who do so much of these firms’ work tend strongly leftward in politics. And of course consultancies frequently contract with governments to generate exactly the sort of tidy, “data driven” solutions knowledge-class liberals and progressives find persuasive.

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